Chapter 477: Sooner or Later

【Big Brother Lin, are you doing well?

I am not in any danger right now.

After you disappeared in that light, I was captured by those strange people of the Desolate Domain.

However, these people do not seem to be barbaric or unreasonable.

These people all have their own civilization.

They didn’t subject me to severe torture or interrogation.

On the contrary, they have actually been very kind to me.

In the Desolate Domain, there is a woman who looks like a True Dragon.

To my surprise, this woman is the City Lord of the Four Cities.

Now, I have become her maidservant.

Every day, she asks me about the Myriad Laws World.

I have told her everything she asked about.

But please rest assured, Big Brother Lin, I haven’t told her a single thing about your matters.

Just a short while ago, I told her about Grandpa.

That City Lord told me that she might have a way to treat Grandpa.

In the end, I chose to believe her.

She let me leave the Desolate Domain to go pick up Grandpa.

After leaving the Desolate Domain, I didn’t run away.

Because she said she could treat my Grandpa’s illness.

And so, I brought Grandpa back into the Desolate Domain again.

Now, I am leaving this letter behind.

If Big Brother Lin is safe and sound, and if you see this envelope, it means that Honeysuckle is actually perfectly fine.

Also, there is one more thing: that Female City Lord of the Desolate Domain wants to invite Big Brother Lin to come and visit the Desolate Domain.

Actually, I don’t know what other intentions that Female City Lord of the Desolate Domain might have.

Although I feel that this Female City Lord is a very good person.

But after all, the human heart is deep and hard to read.

Especially when facing this kind of situation.

So I don’t dare to guarantee anything to you, Big Brother Lin.

Inside the envelope, there is a scale. If Big Brother Lin wants to come, you can use this scale to go to the Han River, and someone will be there to meet you.】

Opening the envelope and looking at the words on the letter, Lin Xun’s brow furrowed slightly.

For Lin Xun, there was absolutely no better news than Honeysuckle being safe.

But what exactly was the deal with that Female City Lord Honeysuckle mentioned in her letter?

Another civilization existed within the Desolate Domain, and Honeysuckle was even working as a maid under her, with the other party even offering to treat Honeysuckle’s grandfather’s illness.

Not only that, the other party actually let Honeysuckle out; wasn’t she afraid that Honeysuckle would just run away?

As for those in the Desolate Domain, even if Lin Xun wasn’t entirely certain, he knew they were definitely restricted by some kind of constraint that prevented them from leaving the Desolate Domain.

In other words, Honeysuckle was actually their only means of connecting with the outside world.

They placed no restrictions on her and let Honeysuckle go straight out.

Was it because they were simply too carefree, or did they actually have other designs?

He burned the letter to ashes.

Lin Xun held the envelope and shook it.

A crystal-clear scale fell out from the envelope.

Lin Xun had killed quite a few Flood Dragons before.

Lin Xun could feel that the intense Dragon Might contained within was definitely not as simple as just belonging to a Flood Dragon species.

Could this really be from a True Dragon?

In this world, True Dragons hadn’t completely gone extinct but still remained within the Desolate Domain?

Griping the Dragon Scale tightly in his hand, he looked toward the direction of the Desolate Domain.

Lin Xun fell into deep thought… Meanwhile, deep within the Desolate Domain.

In the palace at the center of the city, a young girl was gazing out the window.

Her pair of golden vertical pupils radiated endless Dragon Might, spreading across the entire city.

For the girl, she had already lived in this place for nearly twenty thousand years.

Originally, in the girl’s impression, this Desolate Domain was her entire world.

However, the girl’s father told her that beyond this Desolate Domain, there was another vast world.

In that world, there were more living beings, and the most numerous race was called Humans.

And we are merely a race that was driven to this place billions of years ago.

The girl’s Father Emperor told her:

“Sooner or later, our race will leave this Desolate Domain.

And return to that place where we once lived.”

But the girl was still small then and didn’t have much of a concept of it.

However, as the girl gradually grew up, she developed more and more longing and yearning for that world described by her deceased Father Emperor.

In the girl’s heart, she actually wanted to go and see that different world.

But.

Because of the Seal, the girl could not leave.

A long, long time ago, the girl would often go to the banks of a Han River and gaze into the distance.

But due to the Seal of the Han River, the girl could not take a single step across that river.

And as time passed, the girl gradually set the outside world aside.

To the girl, the Desolate Domain was already very large, and there were other countries deeper within it.

Dealing with them was already exhausting enough; if she had to deal with those people outside as well, she might become very tired.

But just a short while ago, the appearance of that man and that woman caused ripples to rise in the girl’s heart once more.

For the first time, this was the first time the girl had seen people from outside the Desolate Domain.

Is that the so-called Human Race?

They look so much like me after I take human form.

Except they have no tails and no horns.

Involuntarily, the girl thought back to what she heard over ten years ago.

She heard the people of Fenhuo Country say they encountered an old man.

That old man also came from outside the Desolate Domain.

Fenhuo Country pursued him relentlessly, but in the end, that old man still managed to escape.

All in all, after keeping Honeysuckle for a month or two, the girl became even more curious about the world outside the Desolate Domain.

However, Honeysuckle didn’t know too many things because she only lived in that small town and hadn’t traveled much.

So after a month or two, there was nothing left to ask her.

But at that time, there was another male Cultivator by Honeysuckle’s side.

Even though Honeysuckle refused to reveal any information about him.

The girl could sense it.

This male Cultivator was very powerful, the truly powerful kind.

The girl felt that the male Cultivator must have been to many places.

He must have had many experiences and surely knew much about local customs and practices.

If she could communicate with him, perhaps it would be extremely wonderful.

But the girl didn’t know how to find him.

And at that time, Honeysuckle happened to need to go pick up her grandfather.

In that case, she would let her go pick him up.

Furthermore, the girl stated she could cure her grandfather’s illness.

The girl only made a promise and didn’t use any other means to restrict or bind Honeysuckle.

For the girl, Honeysuckle had already lost her use.

Because the world she could learn about from Honeysuckle’s mouth had already reached its limit.

If Honeysuckle wanted to leave, then let her leave.

Of course, if Honeysuckle wanted to return to the Desolate Domain and stay with her, she would be very happy, and she would naturally cure her grandfather’s illness.

She even intentionally had Honeysuckle leave a letter to invite that male Cultivator.

Just in case he came looking one day and saw the letter, he might come to see her.

However, nearly half a year had passed until now, and that man still hadn’t come looking.

After being struck by that strange light, did that man die, or did he end up somewhere else?

The girl didn’t know either.

Or did he abandon the life and death of the girl Honeysuckle?

If this man had abandoned Honeysuckle’s life, then the girl would look down on him greatly!

“Perhaps he really isn’t coming?”

The girl sighed softly, somewhat dejected and disappointed, as she withdrew her gaze from the distance.

Just as the girl was about to order the Iron Cavalry stationed by the Han River to return, a maidservant lightly knocked on the girl’s door.

“Enter.”

She didn’t speak much, but her majestic voice echoed through the room.

The door was slowly pushed open, and a maidservant walked in respectfully, kneeling on one knee behind the girl.

“Master… that man… has arrived at the Han River…”

…On the other side of the frozen river, Lin Xun ultimately chose to go to the Desolate Domain to meet another Dragon Girl.

No matter what, Honeysuckle was captured because of him.

Even if she said she was fine now, he should still go see her.

Furthermore, Lin Xun also wanted to see this legendary True Dragon that was supposedly extinct.

And if what Honeysuckle said was true.

Then, perhaps he could communicate with this woman.

He might be able to learn much more about the matters within the Desolate Domain from her mouth.

As long as the other party wasn’t the unreasonable type, then everything would be fine.

So Lin Xun chose to come to this place.

When Lin Xun arrived at this ice river and saw the over one thousand Headless Knights on the opposite side, both sides were silent.

However, Lin Xun didn’t say much either, and instead directly threw that Dragon Scale toward the opposite bank.

A leading Headless Knight on the other side caught the Dragon Scale Lin Xun threw.

After a careful inspection, this Headless Knight let a subordinate leave.

Lin Xun guessed that the other party should be sending troops deep into the Desolate Domain to inform their lord of this matter.

Then this Headless Knight said something to Lin Xun, but Lin Xun couldn’t understand it at all.

It was entirely a difference in language.

After a period of talking at cross purposes, both sides just stood on their respective sides of the river, staring at each other, and then fell into silence once more.

However, both Lin Xun and the group of Headless Iron Cavalry on the opposite bank were prepared for battle.

And after both sides had stared at each other for an hour, a maidservant rushed over from the rear of the army.

The maidservant gave the leader of the Headless Knights a letter.

After finishing reading the letter.

The leading general made a gesture of invitation toward Lin Xun.

Lin Xun didn’t hesitate much and directly flew across the Han River to the opposite bank.

Walking to the side of the Headless Knights, a headless soldier leading a headless horse walked toward Lin Xun.

The leading general signaled for Lin Xun to mount this horse and leave with him.

Lin Xun did not refuse and flipped himself onto the horse.

Following behind this cavalry unit, Lin Xun kept galloping toward the depths of the Desolate Domain.

Lin Xun discovered that this path was exactly the one he had taken back then.

It was as if the other party had specifically chosen this path for him.

Lin Xun felt they deliberately chose this path perhaps to express that “we actually don’t have any ulterior motives, we really just want to invite you to the Desolate Domain.”

Following this Iron Cavalry, Lin Xun arrived before that city from back then.

The city gates were wide open, and Lin Xun followed the Iron Cavalry inside.

This was the first time Lin Xun had entered this city deep within the Desolate Domain.

Within this city, there were all sorts of bizarre and strangely shaped races.

Some looked like Yao Beasts, and some looked like those Demonic Beasts and strange races from Western mythology that he had seen in books in his previous life.

All in all, in this city, besides the Human Race, there were many other races, the majority of which Lin Xun could not name.

However, in this town, they were leading lives roughly the same as in other places.

There were street vendors on the streets, wine shops and inns, and naturally, there were also places of pleasure.

What Lin Xun found strange was that the girls in those pleasure houses were all different; how was their aesthetic determined?

If he had the chance, Lin Xun felt he could spend several days wandering around this town without getting bored.

But now, Lin Xun had already been brought into the palace by this unit of Headless Iron Cavalry.

In this palace, Lin Xun discovered quite a few Yao Race palace maids, most of whom maintained human forms.

Seeing these human-form palace maids, Lin Xun finally felt a bit more at home.

But even so.

Those various tails and ears, as well as the horns on their heads from unknown species.

Lin Xun clearly felt as if he had arrived in a kingdom of monsters.

After being brought into the palace, Lin Xun was not summoned immediately.

Instead, a maidservant came before Lin Xun and patted him down… then this maidservant used a Divine Stone to search for weapons on Lin Xun’s person.

She said something to Lin Xun, but he didn’t understand… Lin Xun funneled a wisp of Divine Sense into a maidservant’s mind and then learned their dialect.

Only then did he realize they wanted him to hand over all the weapons on his body.

But how could Lin Xun possibly do that?

If he did that, wouldn’t he be a fool?

Faced with Lin Xun’s refusal, these maidservants were also extremely calm.

They stated they needed to go and ask their master for instructions.

Soon, these maidservants returned and stated Lin Xun could go to see the master just as he was.

But Lin Xun had to bathe and change clothes, cleaning himself before going.

Faced with these tedious etiquettes, Lin Xun did not refuse either.

After an hour had passed, Lin Xun was finally brought to the entrance of that palace.