Chapter 1242 - 1239: The One Who Emerges Is the True Heir

"Why are you staring at me like that?"

Ansheng, perched on the landlord's shoulder, noticed the landlord's unabashed gaze and was momentarily stunned, returning the look with a large question mark.

"Don't you wrongly accuse me of anything. I'm a genuine Red Fox with a Capital City household registration. Are you saying I'm some ultimate being?"

After the First and Second Epochs, naturally follows the Third Epoch.

But this Third Epoch is not of humans, but of the ultimate beings forged by the landlord, distilling the essence of Blue Star.

The entire epoch civilization consists solely of one creature.

As she spoke, her eyes unabashedly turned towards Master Fuli, implying her meaning was evident.

Ansheng was startled by these words, wondering how casual conversation had led to being unfairly blamed and scolded as an orphan.

"I'm just an overweight lazy fox. How can you fabricate destinies and responsibilities for me to bear?"

"You're putting such a heavy burden on me. Aren't you afraid of flattening me, who's only one meter tall, into a pancake?" Ansheng complained to the landlord with a face full of disdain.

"But the Third Epoch does indeed exist, and all creatures on Blue Star can participate in this selection..."

The landlord saw the fox's fur standing on end and could roughly guess it was silently cursing her for drinking fake liquor.

Yet she didn't mind much and continued to talk about the things she had concealed.

"The so-called ultimate being of the Third Epoch rides upon the beast transformed from the Invisible Tree, wearing the Command Core of a Perfect Miracle."

"Such armor-clad warriors are what I define as the true essence of the Third Epoch."

"Clad in the Armor of Infinite Will, they reflect their might upon the Invisible Tree, creating a true closed loop of life."

The evolution of an epoch spans millions of years; collapsing midway is also normal.

The Dragon People should not have stopped here, yet they hadn't even fully explored the outskirts of Blue Star before an unexpected halt.

The success of the First Epoch was the true anomaly.

With the Dragon People's unfortunate example, the landlord drew on the lessons from failures to seek out a Super Great Fortune for the weaker species of Blue Star in advance.

This is, in essence, the Third Epoch, directing them to smooth out all dangers in the cosmic starry sky clad in armor.

As for who would be the Third Epoch?

The landlord didn't designate anyone, instead waiting quietly for the true inheritor to emerge.

Whoever rises to the top from Blue Star and first grasps the Invisible Tree will be the legitimate heir of the Third Epoch.

"Really, just this hasty?" Ansheng was dumbstruck by the landlord's explanation, confronting the landlord with a huge question mark:

"Aren't you worried, if someone from across the way lashes out, they might persecute a circle of species on Blue Star, leading directly to extinction?"

The landlord's gaze shifted slightly, then returned as she replied calmly, "There have been concerns. Thus, one of the prerequisites for the inheritor is to seize the Invisible Tree. You may understand this as needing recognition by the Dragon People."

"Once they are recognized, only then will I hand over the Miracle Coordinates and the Star Map to the inheritor."

"As for who rises among them from Blue Star, I'm not profoundly concerned, but at the very least, they must not be a nuisance."

"Otherwise, if the Fourth Epoch is destroyed by them, it would also be a distressing matter for me."

"However, if you wish to compete, I can offer you an early congratulations: the Invisible Tree has favored your remarks at the villa's front...."

"My speech?" Ansheng frowned and asked, "Are you referring to the meeting with the Landlord of Longevity?"

"Yes..." the landlord gently nodded, "Among the dozens of beings rising from Blue Star, your words most resembled human speech...."

"Though the words may be crude, for ordinary creatures, to live is to have options, is it not?"

"Even if generations are illiterate, as long as there emerges one talented individual from their genetic lineage, it's a winning situation for me."

Clearly, the landlord has no concept of national boundaries, and her timeframe for viewing matters is lengthy.

The death of a city, the destruction of a country, she wouldn't care, as long as beings can stabilize at a numerical scale, probability can magnify a low-probability miracle into an inevitability.

Civilization's development and inheritance require living beings; if all are oppressed into ignorance.

Standing in her path, she would intervene personally.

Much like now, appearing in the spiritual space, she offered hints to Master Fuli in advance.

Breaking free from the cycle of Spiritual Particles, the landlord seemed somewhat anxious today.

"Snap...."

As the landlord spoke, suddenly a crack appeared on her body, emitting a crisp cracking sound.

The landlord's expression faltered, and she straightened her leaning form, saying:

"It seems my projection is about to dissipate. Do you have any more questions for me to answer?"

"There shouldn't be any..." Ansheng shook his head, but as though remembering something casual, he asked:

"Oh, by the way, the matter of me scheduling a duel with the Immortals soon, are you aware?"

"I'm afraid they might intrude, going straight for the Invisible Tree. Will that old tree recognize them? While Sun Xingyao might curse them verbally, it's clear in his heart he regards the Immortals as distant relatives...."

"They cannot gain recognition; their philosophy does not align with our Blue Star's interests." The landlord stood up, looking at Master Fuli sitting on her collarbone and said:

"The theory of strong ones achieving immortality has its validity, but betting everything like a gambler, I do not approve of them. I'm out of patience to wait quietly for billions of years...."

"On Blue Star, everything continues as normal, parallel explorations by the Third and Fourth Epochs, equal chances of discovery."

The landlord's physique gradually shattered, turning into stardust scattering in the spiritual space, while the dry branches and withered wood on the ground slowly vanished.

"The time is nearly up...."

"If there are any remaining doubts, water the roots, once they sprout and grow strong, I can descend anew."

As the landlord dissipated, in her palm, appeared a green bud, drifting before Master Fuli.

And the landlord completely vanished from the spiritual space.

The bud softly descended, drifting towards Master Fuli.

"Tsk....you've certainly grown a bit too robust."

Ansheng, with a face of dark lines, reached out a fox paw to grip the bud comparable to his own size, secretly cursed: Even if I bled out, I couldn't nourish this small twig to become a towering pillar.

The tree vessel bearing the landlord's descent, physically capable of rivaling the heavens.

Though the branch is large, it's merely a hundred meters tall, perhaps not even as thick as the skin on the landlord's feet.

"However, Zhang Wuji's mother is right, the prettier the female, the more deceitful...."

"In this respect, even the landlord is alike." Ansheng controlled the Nine-tailed Fox Divine Statue to descend, landing before a lake to admire the reflection, and muttered inwardly.

The landlord's words conveyed a coherent logic and consistent interests, without falsehood.

But she clearly chose selective amnesia, intentionally omitting some matters from her explanations.

For instance..... the Third Epoch Inheritor.

Perfect and the Dragon People may not be exactly fire and water, but in terms of biological evolution paths, they certainly diverge entirely.

To bear the powers of Perfect and Dragon People, the prerequisite is that the inheritor themselves must possess both forces.

Yet on Blue Star, where could such a creature be found?