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Beneath the lake, a colossal purple-gold beast was coiled, its body constantly coursing with lightning that illuminated the dark lakebed with flickering light.
What shocked Chen Yi was that the beast's body was remarkably similar to the Eastern Dragon he knew from his previous World, with only one distinct difference—where a ferocious beastly face should have been, there was instead a human-like countenance.
"This is… the God of Thunder!"
Chen Yi's incredulous cry echoed through the space; the image of the giant beast before him was clearly the God of Thunder from Lei Ze as recorded in the myths of his previous World.
The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Classic of Regions Within the Seas, East records: "In Lei Ze, there is a God of Thunder, with a Dragon body and a human head, who beats his belly."
The Huainanzi: Treatise on Topography also records: "Lei Ze has a God, with a Dragon body and a human head."
Chen Yi's previous name was Fu Si, with the surname Fu, which originated from Fuxi, the progenitor of humanity, the first of a hundred kings, and the foremost of the Three Sovereigns.
Young people are often curious about their origins, and young Fu Si was no exception.
In that era of information sharing, Fu Si learned about the origin of his surname and was once very proud of it, after all, that was Fuxi! Emperors of Heaven and Earth, noble beyond words!
And the most famous story about Fuxi's background was undoubtedly the tale of his mother, Huaxu, who became pregnant for twelve years and gave birth to Fuxi after stepping on a giant footprint in Lei Ze.
Volume 78 of the Taiping Yulan, citing "Poetic Records of Divine Mists," states: "A great footprint appeared in Lei Ze, Huaxu stepped on it, and gave birth to Fuxi."
It had been six years since he arrived on the Douluo Continent, and now, seeing what appeared to be the father of his Old Ancestor from his previous World, even with the strange face, Chen Yi's inner excitement was undeniable.
After a long while, Chen Yi finally calmed his emotions and spoke his conjecture to the God of Thunder:
"Senior, could the resonance with the God Position of Thunder you just mentioned be the Qi of the God of Lei Ze?"
The God of Thunder was noncommittal, looking at the God of Lei Ze at the bottom of the lake, his eyes filled with obsession and fervor:
"That's right, this is the Qi that resonates with the God Position of Thunder, the Qi of the God of Thunder from a super high dimension.
But for you, this is not just a wisp of Qi, but a Bloodline of Ancestral Return!"
"A Bloodline? A Bloodline of Ancestral Return?!"
As someone who had read Fantasy novels for twenty years in his previous World and had treated the library as his home since he learned to read in this life, Chen Yi was naturally very familiar with the concept of ancestral Bloodline return.
However, he had never imagined that his current body did not possess an ancestral Bloodline from the Douluo Continent, but rather one from his distant homeland.
Then the legends of Emperor Xi in the myths of his previous World were true! His Bloodline truly came from this legendary and mysterious God!
"As the God who controlled lightning in the previous World, and furthermore, the source of Emperor Xi's Bloodline, the God of Lei Ze is an absolutely fatal temptation for the native Gods here on Douluo, especially lightning Gods."
Thinking of this, Chen Yi felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar; as the saying goes, "an innocent man is guilty only for possessing a treasure."
He was just an ordinary person, possessing such a top-tier Bloodline, and without any World-shaking background, facing a God King, there was absolutely no possibility of resistance!
However, the God of Thunder did not pay attention to Chen Yi's change at this moment, but instead looked at the giant beast materialized from the God of Lei Ze's Bloodline.
Even though it wasn't the first time he had seen Him, the God of Thunder's excitement remained undiminished; every scale on His body, every wisp of Qi He emitted, was proclaiming to the Universe what the ultimate of the Dao of Thunder was!
After a long while, the God of Thunder continued, "It's just a pity that my divine body had already perished at that time, and my divine soul was also on the verge of drying up.
Although I achieved a Breakthrough to God King with His help, it still couldn't change my impending demise."
"At that time, I carried your true spirit, protected by Him, and escaped the temporal storm.
During this period, my remnant soul and your true spirit inevitably intersected, and I learned about your previous life."
The air around the God of Thunder suddenly solidified, the soft halo that had been flowing instantly dissipated, replaced by surging purple-gold lightning, crackling around him, causing the surrounding space to twist slightly.
"This Old Ancestor has no dissatisfaction with what is called the Fantasy sewer, after all, weak is weak, there's nothing to say."
"But that Tang San, he dared to scheme against my elder brother and Sister-in-law, and then even gave their God Positions to his son and daughter-in-law.
How utterly outrageous!"
From the God of Thunder's tone, it could be heard that the elder brother and Sister-in-law he spoke of were the God of Destruction and the God of Life, the couple from the God Realm Committee.
The God of Destruction and the God of Thunder were both powerful cultivators of the Dao of Thunder; historically, such peers were either rivals or close friends, and now it sounded like they belonged to the latter.
"My elder brother worked diligently his entire life, dedicating everything to the God Realm, only to end up with his family destroyed.
How could this Old Ancestor be reconciled?!"
"In order to rush back before that battle began, I burned my last divine soul and hurried back, but I didn't expect that the God Position of Thunder, after being empowered by the power of this supreme God of Thunder, far exceeded my expectations, being at least ten thousand years faster than this Old Ancestor's estimate."
By the end, the God of Thunder's tone had lightened considerably, and then he turned back to Chen Yi and said:
"However, I have also completely perished; now only an undying obsession remains.
So you don't need to worry about what I might do to you, besides, this venerable one has lived a life of integrity and would never do anything underhanded."
Hearing this, Chen Yi's hanging heart finally settled.
Then, with a respectful expression, he said to the God of Thunder, "So, Senior, why have you called this Junior here?"
Since the other party held no ill will towards him and had already fallen, it was impossible for him to be here just for a chat.
Coupled with his relationship with those two God Kings, the reason for his presence here was self-evident.
"That's right, I intend to bestow the God Position of Thunder upon my young friend.
Looking across the entire Universe, there is no one more suited to my God Position than my young friend."
"It's just that my young friend might not know, this Bloodline of yours, carrying your true spirit, originally traversed the Universe barrier and crossed the long river of time to pass through this World.
Had it not been for my interference back then, you should have gone to a far more prosperous World—with your Heaven-Defying Bloodline, rising step by step there and eventually becoming a peak expert would have been a matter of course."
At this point, a hint of apology surfaced in the God of Thunder's eyes.
In his opinion, Chen Yi's talent was enough to support him reaching the pinnacle in any World, and this World, which could be called a "Fantasy sewer," was simply incomparable to the normal Fantasy World he should have gone to.
He had undoubtedly delayed the other party's future.
"Senior, there's no need to blame yourself.
Although this Junior has inherited the Legacy of the previous World's sages, all things in the World are not static.
Without Senior, perhaps this Junior would have been captured and refined by some powerful existence during the Transmigration through time and space."
Chen Yi, however, had a different perspective.
It should be known that the journey of Transmigration is extremely perilous.
Even the God King Realm of the God of Thunder Douluo could sense his Bloodline within the temporal storm, and naturally, more powerful experts from other Worlds could as well.
In a sense, the God of Thunder might have even inadvertently saved his life.
Moreover, the Douluo Universe, as one of the few Fantasy Worlds that possesses eternal life but ordinary combat power, is more suitable as an initial starting point.
In Chen Yi's view, the potential of this Universe is immense, it's just that it took the wrong path, or rather, couldn't see the path forward.
But with his Bloodline from his previous World, Chen Yi could naturally go further, at least not worse than an ordinary Fantasy World.