Eating his brother sounds terrifying, but to Ian, it feels quite normal.
In the Dao Path of the Swarm, Ian assimilated Elan without hesitation—although he did cultivate Elan into his best ’Swarm Crystal Dragon’ entity, there’s no denying that eating is still eating.
Yet this feeling still made Ian’s heart very complicated.
In the Spirit Disaster Path, he didn’t see much of Elan, and the same goes for the Extinction Star Path... This is because the two paths became too grand in the later stages, but also because Ian’s companions couldn’t be clearly observed due to his own reasons and could only be recognized from the sidelines.
If, as he predicted, Elan could achieve something on the ’Arcane Pathway’ in the future.
The Fifth Energy Level might be too ambitious, but reaching the Third or Fourth Energy Levels should be guaranteed.
In this way, Spirit Energy Metamorphosis would naturally reach the current level of Ian’s ’Retrospection Vision’.
With his brother’s spirit energy, Ian could undoubtedly explore more ancient secrets and access more truths and opportunities early.
But definitely, more opportunities would have been missed, slowing down Ian’s theoretical development speed.
Thus, in a certain parallel space-time, Ian failed, wanting to transmit his memory and personality to other parallel worlds, only to find that some opportunities couldn’t be obtained without the Foresight View, and if he included the information from those opportunities directly, it would occupy too much inheritance information quota.
Then, whether Ian himself took the initiative, or his brother did, his spirit energy was infused into the Guiding Star.
Ian obtained such a dysfunctional ’Retrospective Vision’ that could observe the past.
Elan looked at Ian blankly as he brushed his back with his tail, as if rubbing his head with a hand—even though he didn’t know why Ian became so complicated in his mood, he could still feel the sense of affection.
After sighing, Ian made a resolution.
On the Terra Continent, inheritances related to spirit energy, especially those tied to foresight spirit energy, were scarce.
The Four Great Orthodox Churches, the Fae, and the Voidrealm Machine Gods within the Domain of Void...possibly the True Dragons and demons as well, all had achievements in this respect.
Among them, the most famous, and the one that met the conditions most closely, was the ’Twin Pontiffs’ of Embrace Light...
The two unending Prophet inheritances established the leading position of the Huai Guang Church on the continent.
Although Ian and Elan weren’t twins, they were brothers, with complementary abilities... The Huai Guang Church was indeed likely to have the inheritance and information Ian needed.
Ian was also confident that Embrace Light would assist him... as long as the timing was right, they would make their choices.
While Ian was ’holding’ Elan, pondering future plans.
He heard the footsteps of humans approaching from not far away.
Raising his head, Ian looked behind him.
Elf Pirate Captain Andor was walking toward the Crystal Dragon, dressed in formal Imperial staff attire, holding a crystal plate in his hand.
Andor originally just routinely took the Crystal Dragon to the shore for exercise and swimming. Almost all the professional breeders of high-level magical beasts did this every few days to cultivate the natural hunting ability of the beasts, allowing them to grow healthily.
In fact, many of the magical beasts at the Atlantian Breeding Grounds were healthier and even more fierce, with more hunting experience, than their counterparts outside—because they had ample opportunities to train.
Although they might be slightly inferior to the strongest ones nurtured in the outside world’s survival of the fittest environment, in overall quality, the bred magical beasts far exceeded the average level of natural magical beasts.
Breeders were evaluated in this respect, and if they didn’t complete the corresponding growth tasks, they would even be fined and have their wages docked.
Andor, of course, didn’t care about the money; his life was given by Ian and the Crystal Dragon, so he would do whatever made the Crystal Dragon most free and comfortable—in the beginning, other researchers and breeders were dissatisfied with him, even wanting to seize his rights to breed the Crystal Dragon.
But under the influence of Master Gossay, these power struggles were suppressed.
"I didn’t expect that even within such a secret breeding ground of the Empire, there’s the same backstabbing as the outside world..."
Muttering this, Andor quickly came to the shore.
Without a pilot, the two Crystal Dragons would only bask in the sun instinctively. Normal breeders would use various methods to urge the magical beasts to train and hunt, but Andor only followed the beasts’ own wishes.
It just so happened that half-way, Elan inhabited the Crystal Dragon body, and knowing that it’s the young boss’s brother, Andor was even more reluctant to restrain him. Fortunately, Elan was obedient and never wandered far, only roamed in the local waters.
Andor thought today would just be a peaceful day, and once Elan’s soul couldn’t hold on, the training ended, he could take the ’sleeping’ Crystal Dragon body back.
However, when the Pirate Captain met the gaze of the green Crystal Dragon, he understood.
Today he was undoubtedly going to encounter something significant.
"Sir, you’ve arrived."
Almost instantly, Andor knelt before Ian, while the slender green dragon nodded slightly, signaling not to make a fuss: "Don’t act out of the ordinary, it wouldn’t be good to draw attention."
"I understand. I specifically chose this remote, secluded shoreline, far from other high-level magical beast breeding areas." ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novel-fire.ɴet
With Ian’s permission, Andor slowly rose. He looked at the green Crystal Dragon with a puzzled face but didn’t ask any questions.