Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“So, since we’re going to fight in dreams, one of the requirements for the summoned hero should be ‘have the ability to fight in dreams’.”
In the altar area of Dragon City.
Ji Ye and Cobb stood there and watched the dragons of providence breathe their golden light onto the offering, which was the mirror dropped by the yaksha queen with the Inheritance talent.
Compared to the boisterous scene before, there were only over a dozen audience members this time.
Because after they entered the dream and killed some Dense Fog race members, the main force of the Dense Fog couldn’t stand it. They were gathering that force, but now, they had begun to attack the great Feng Shui formation from all directions instead, including the sky. To make sure that the formation would hold, most of the combative personnel had gone to the frontline.
However, Dragon City’s current priority was still on defense.
After all, if they could kill all the Dense Fog in the dream, they could win the battle in the real world without having to fight it.
Because of that, the requirement Ji Ye had for the sacrificial ritual this time was that the hero had to have some kind of ability to fight in the dream.
It was slightly looser than the restriction for the ritual that summoned Cobb.
Because to have that ability didn’t mean that the hero had to have a deep understanding of dreams, which meant that the range of heroes they could summon was much wider.
Ji Ye had his own reasoning.
With the Moonlight in the Water, theoretically, they had a chance to summon a Legendary hero, but there was only a possibility, and nothing was for sure. If he wanted to limit the hero to some kind of master dream-builder, even fewer people would fit that category.
Dom Cobb’s arrival was a pure exception.
Most of the heroes summoned by Dragon City were from ancient Chidragon, and not many legendary figures from that period could have an ability related to dreams.
“The Duke of Zhou, Zhuang Zhou, and King Wen of Zhou. They were about the only historical figures I can think of,” Elder Zhou said in the communication channel.
The Duke of Zhou was Ji Dan, the younger brother of Ji Fa, King Wu of Zhou. He assisted King Wu to conquer King Zhou of Shang in the east, created rites and music, and laid the foundation of Confucianism.
For a long time in ancient times, the Duke of Zhou was revered as a “sage” and in some dynasties was even above Confucius.
And although the book “Interpretation of Dreams by the Duke of Zhou” was proved to have been written by people of later times and attached it to his name, because the circulation was too wide, according to the rules of the Land of Inheritance, it was also likely to be changed into the ability of the Duke of Zhou.
Zhuang Zhou’s “Dreams of a Butterfly” was even more obvious.
As Master Nanhua of Daoism, the status of Zhuangzi (Zhuang Zhou) in Daoism was comparable to that of Mencius in Confucianism, and he was considered a “sub-sage”.
With the close relationship between Daoism and cultivation, if Master Nanhua really could come to Dragon City, he would greatly benefit from the cultivation aspect of the settlement.
As for the allusion of the “a flying tiger in the dream”, it referred to the incident when Ji Chang, the future King Wen of Zhou, dreamed that a fierce tiger with two wings was coming toward him from the southeast, and later, he met Jiang Ziya, who was fishing at the edge of the Wei River.
These two had a higher status in history than the first two. Moreover, with the spread of the book “The Investiture of the Gods” and various web novels, Ji Ye suspected that they would at least be Legendary, if not Mythological.
No matter which of the four people came to Dragon City, they would benefit the settlement greatly.
Ji Ye watched expectantly as the golden light activated the Soul of Civilization. Then, the hero began to take shape.
Hum!
Unlike the previous sacrificial rituals, when the Soul of Civilization started its transformation,
clouds started to gather in the sky above Dragon City. Immediately, shadows appeared, some looking like living creatures and some in the shape of objects. They were all glowing.
“What’s happening?”
“Is that an attack from the Dense Fog race?”
The new players from the fourth batch watched nervously.
“This is…”
The old players were both surprised and curious.
Because they had seen this scene once before.
The last time it appeared was during the first stage of Dragon City’s advancement test when a lot of competitors’ settlement cores emerged to stop the advancement.
Could the Dense Fog summon the settlement cores it had devoured and attack another settlement core directly?
“No, it’s not the Dense Fog race,” Ji Ye rejected the idea.
Because despite the shape of the settlement cores in the sky, they were all covered by the yellow power of providence of the human race.
Some of the settlement cores even took the forms of creatures and objects that all Chidragon people were familiar with, such as a White Tiger, a phoenix, a flying sword, a bronze Ding, and even a chubby panda.
Obviously, the settlement cores belonged to the human race and were from settlement cores in the Land of Inheritance that was from Chidragon.
“A legend is an extremely outstanding existence in civilization. Therefore, when a Legendary hero takes its shape, the rest of the relevant settlements will contribute part of their powers!”
That was the information that appeared in Ji Ye’s head.
Yes, a legend!
A Legendary hero had answered Dragon City’s summoning this time.
It wasn’t that big of a surprise. After all, Dragon City was the top settlement from Earth.
As long as the background fitted, a Legendary being would be willing to come here.
Splash!
After all the other settlement cores emerged, they each emitted a streak of golden light that aimed at the Transcendent Soul of Civilization dropped by the yaksha king.
In a split second, the flame inside turned into a blinding orange color before a human shape appeared.
[“I drive six dragons and ride the wind. I travel the four seas and the eight states… I ride the clouds, and immortals and jade maidens descend. I’m driving six dragons and drinking jade syrup…”]
Then, a majestic middle-aged man’s voice started chanting.
“Wait. Who’s that?”
Although most people of Dragon City were on the perimeters, the voice had a penetrating quality that everyone could hear.
Anyone that wasn’t fighting could also see through the barrier, and they saw a figure with a blurry face on the altar.
“I can’t tell who it is from that poem.
“But it sounded so otherworldly. Can it be Zhuangzi?”
After making sure that it was a Legendary hero, Ji Ye tried to analyze who it was through the poem.
Although he didn’t know much about Zhuangzi’s works, some of Zhuangzi’s poems were required to be memorized in school, among which was the Untrammeled Traveler. Some of the sentences sounded similar to the poem.
But soon, he realized that he was wrong.
[“Though the tortoise blessed with magic powers lives long, its days have their allotted span, though winged serpents ride high on the mist, they turn to dust and ashes at the last.
An old war-horse may be stabled, yet still, it longs to gallop a thousand li, and a noble-hearted man though advanced in years never abandons his proud aspirations…”]
[“The wine, the song, life goes on. But for how long? It evaporates, to our dismay, like the morning dew, day after day…”]
Just like when Li Guang arrived, there was more than one poem, and it went on and on.
Although some were subdued, some were generous, and some were stirring, they were all recited by the same voice, indicating that the poems must have been written by the same person.
Some of the poems might as well have been branded in the brains of the Chidragon people who had gone to high school.
“Wow, it’s him…”
“The grand chancellor!”
“Master Mengde!”
“Holy crap, it’s Cao Cao…”
Yes, the Legendary hero who had answered the summons of Dragon City wasn’t Zhuangzi, the Duke of Zhou, or Jiang Ziya.
It was Cao Cao, the grand chancellor of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Wu of Wai!
“It’s him!”
Not only Ji Ye, but Guo Wei, Su Nongying, and the others were also surprised.
It wasn’t that Cao Cao wasn’t worthy of the evaluation. Throughout the Three Kingdoms era, both Cao Cao and Zhuge Liang were significant and famous enough to be considered Legendary. The problem was…
“Didn’t Master Ji ask for someone who could fight in dreams? How does Cao Cao fit that requirement?”
To the north of Dragon City, Mister Bug, who was defending the area with some players from the superpower camp, scratched his head and looked confused.
“I like killing people in my dreams!”
Ji Ye had figured out why.
“I like killing people in my dreams.” This was a well-known story about Cao Cao, enough to be ranked alongside “hope plum to quench thirst” and “cut off the beard and give up the robe in Huarong Road”.
Cao Cao was suspicious in nature and often feared that others would secretly harm him while he was asleep, so he told his guards, “I like killing people in my dreams, so whenever I’m asleep, you must not come near me.”
In order to make others believe this, he once deliberately kicked away his quilt when sleeping and left himself exposed to the chilly air, but he still pretended to be asleep without knowing.
When a guard picked up the quilt to cover him, Cao Cao suddenly leaped up and killed the guard with his sword, then lay down and went back to sleep.
When he got up the next morning, with a surprised face, he asked who had killed his personal guard. When the rest of the guards told him the truth, Cao Cao “wept bitterly” and had the guard buried.
As a result, the others all believed that Cao Cao could kill in his dreams.
However, this incident was only recorded in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and not the official historical records.
Because of that, the management team of Dragon City didn’t expect that Emperor Wu of Wei would fit that criterion as well.
