Chapter 1944: Be Respectful | Red Heart Survey [Translation]
Red Heart Survey [Translation] - Updated on May 1, 2025
Xuanyuan Shuo was a name that most of the strongest individuals present had never heard of.
But in this situation, in this scene, and uttered by the man who stepped on the moon, anyone could guess its origin.
It could only be the name of the Fishing Dragon Guest.
Among the double-surname Xuanyuans under heaven, there weren’t too many, but not none either.
And the one named “Xuanyuan Shuo,” looking through the Xuanyuan clan genealogy, was the most core figure. His position in the main lineage was something others dared not compare to.
For no other reason.
The Fishing Dragon Guest, who guarded Tianya Terrace alone with a single fishing rod and fished for the dragon race, was a direct descendant of the second generation Human Emperor, Youxiong Clan!
Although the Human Emperor was great, his descendants were not necessarily virtuous.
One could even say, which person among the current human race is not a descendant of the Human Emperor?
But as a direct descendant of the Youxiong Clan, Xuanyuan Shuo’s noble bloodline was also beyond doubt.
However, for thousands of years, this name had never been widely known.
The world only knew the Fishing Dragon Guest, but not his name, let alone his double surname, Xuanyuan.
With such bloodline, such cultivation, and the ability to endure thousands of years of loneliness, he was truly unparalleled!
And to be able to step on the moon with one foot, stand against such a Fishing Dragon Guest, and even issue a challenge… who was this man who walked out of the water mirror?
At this time, at this moment, the bright moon hung upside down.
Those thousands upon thousands of strands of Dao principle fishing lines instantly intertwined, churning like chaos. Gao Ji’s original body, which had already been fished up from the seabed of the vast sea’s Yongning Sea Region, suddenly froze in place, unwilling to be pulled up further!
The terrifying vortex on the sea surface, which was infinitely expanding, also stopped instantly, no longer expanding. Countless living beings in the sea region finally escaped that terrifying suction and desperately fled outwards.
Just at this time, a voice rang out from within that crescent moon:
“Hmm?”
This voice was more like that of a drunk after drinking, a fallen poet, a disappointed scholar. Not a legendary figure standing at an extraordinary peak, correctly stepping towards transcendence, creating world-renowned great sects, and bearing supreme bloodlines.
Because it was so lonely, so despondent.
The Fishing Dragon Guest’s voice, transmitted through this wheel of crescent moon, spread throughout the Mi Realm and the vast sea.
He still sat alone on Tianya Terrace, holding a fishing rod, and said with a melancholy voice: “I remember I killed you personally.”
An indescribable terrifying power contended above that bright moon.
The several human race True Monarchs and sea race Sovereign Lords present also had the ability to participate in the battlefield, but none were enough to become the decisive force.
The crashing of the fierce sun against the crescent moon, the clash of the iron halberd against the sealed prison, Cao Ji’s killing of the Yang God with Dao principles – none of these could be said to be not grand, but they were like the attacks of Zhu Sui and Yu Li Yang, even if heaven and earth collapsed, they were like fleeting illusions.
The peak powers of the present world found it very difficult to destroy terrifying existences that were close to transcendence.
Especially someone like the Fishing Dragon Guest, whose half-body was already outside the present world layer, needing only one leap to complete transcendence thoroughly.
The man who stepped on the moon stepped on the fish hook, stirred and entangled the heaven and earth fishing lines, and leisurely replied: “You indeed killed the Fu Hai, killed very cleanly. And I, am Ji Lan Xian. Or you can also call me – Tianfu Elder!”
The entire realm was shocked!
How could the sea race’s legendary wise teacher Fu Hai and the Tianfu Elder be linked together?
The Tianfu Elder was a legendary figure etched in the history of human race cultivation, who once, with Inner Mansion Realm cultivation, strongly killed three powerful Outer Building experts, thus becoming famous in one go.
Such legendary feats were not surpassed until Jiang Wang, the chief of the Yellow River, suddenly appeared and bloodily battled four demons in Soul Breaking Gorge.
Later, he went all the way through Outer Building, Divine Presence, Cave True… Although there were no more magnificent feats that shook history, he always maintained the stance of a strong individual. Until one day, he left the Tianfu secret realm and disappeared into the outer heavens.
The world all said that he had already gone to roam the great void.
His glorious time was very short, but the prestige of Tianfu spread widely because of him. The world’s use of “Tianfu cultivators” to refer to those with five mansions and divine abilities originated from him.
The human race does not determine one’s life with aptitude. Cultivators who unfortunately cannot pick divine abilities are not necessarily weaker than cultivators with inborn divine abilities. Cultivators who pick one divine ability are not necessarily weaker than cultivators who pick two divine abilities.
It’s just one holding a knife, one holding a dagger; innate insufficiency is supplemented by postnatal effort.
But the Tianfu Elder claimed to be the “first mansion of heaven and earth”! He used unreasonable divine abilities pairing to construct his dominance at the Inner Mansion level.
Such an existence attracted too many gazes, absolutely impossible to be of the dragon race.
Even if his disguise was superb, how could he hide from the world’s eyes in that glorious place?
If the Tianfu Elder was of the dragon race, how could the Qi country’s border possibly retain his secret realm?
How could they possibly allow domestic talents to train for so many years?
Although it was never considered a top secret realm, not the first choice for the sons of top families, the last time the secret realm opened, people like Li Longchuan and Wang Yiwu also went in! Even the current number one prodigy of Great Qi also started to make a name for himself from this secret realm.
To say now that Fu Hai was the Tianfu Elder was simply a challenge to cultivation common sense.
Especially Zhu Sui.
As a Night Guard during the Qi Wu Emperor period, he witnessed how Qi country in that period conquered the south and battled the north, expanding its territory. In the era when the Yang country had just collapsed, other countries were all busy contending for the prosperous lands of the East Domain, dividing the legacy of old Yang, and feasting greatly on the corpse of the great empire. The so-called “Nine Countries of the Sunrise” were once magnificent for a time, and that was a product of that period.
Only the Qi Wu Emperor, with the newly restored Qi country, developed towards the coastline, choosing to establish stations and forts, occupying sea border territory, and proactively bearing the responsibility of guarding the sea.
Linhai County belonged to Qi country in that period, and Zhu Sui also personally watched as Tianfu City developed from a small fishing village to a considerable large city in Linhai County, relying on the advantage of the Tianfu secret realm.
Although he and the Tianfu Elder had no intersection, the Tianfu Elder had already disappeared when Qi country occupied Linhai County.
But now to say that the Tianfu Elder was Fu Hai, he was truly not easy to accept.
The reason was simple – even if his Zhu Sui’s eyesight was insufficient and not sharp enough, it was fine. What kind of great figure was the Wu Ancestor? If the Tianfu Elder was of the dragon race, how could he possibly hide from him?
Among the fifty spots each time the Tianfu secret realm opened, Qi country directly allocated ten spots to people from foreign countries to show Great Qi’s tolerance for the world. This rule was set down by the Qi Wu Emperor and had not changed for many years.
That is to say, the Tianfu secret realm was personally overseen by the Qi Wu Emperor!
How could this Tianfu Elder possibly hide his dragon race body?
And compared to these, what concerned Zhu Sui more at this moment was the name of this Tianfu Elder.
Ji Lan Xian…
“Ji” was the surname of the former Great Yang Empire’s imperial clan!
Since the destruction of the Yang country and the massacre of the Great Yang imperial clan, many people hastily changed their surnames to avoid disaster, and the surname “Ji” was already very rare.
Was this Ji Lan Xian that “Ji”?
The other True Monarchs present, including Zhu Sui, were still doubting the truth of this man’s claim to be the Tianfu Elder.
Far away on Tianya Terrace, the Fishing Dragon Guest had already made the first step in confirmation.
His voice rang out through the crescent moon: “You have indeed become a person, a thorough person. It seems you are also tired of the days of crawling in the smelly sea ditch. The lowly skin of the sea race fundamentally makes you unable to endure… Fu Hai, who are you fighting for today?”
As soon as these words came out, they instantly enraged the crowd of sea race Sovereign Lords in the Mi Realm.
And the Tianfu Elder, who called himself Ji Lan Xian, calmly replied: “The Sea Lord clan is the seed of the ancient demon, the ruler’s lineage, the child of heaven’s destiny. The human race is just a later creation. To discuss noble and lowly, perhaps it is not as you wish.”
“Now, winning is the only way.” The Fishing Dragon Guest said, “This principle, I think you will understand. What is heaven’s destiny? I am heaven’s destiny. You are all welcome to be sons and grandsons.”
“Yes, now, winning is the only way.” The Tianfu Elder said, “Just like the newborn Sea Lord clan will certainly rule the present world.”
“But who are you?” The Fishing Dragon Guest’s voice asked.
“Did you not notice my name?” The Tianfu Elder said with a smile, “My name is Ji Lan Xian.”
What the Fishing Dragon Guest was asking about was his essential existence, whether he was of the sea race or the human race, fundamentally denying his Dao with this. But he avoided the question and instead reported his surname meaningfully once again.
“I have finally confirmed, you are indeed Fu Hai.” The Fishing Dragon Guest’s voice said.
The Tianfu Elder stood on the bright moon and bowed politely: “It’s hard for you to remember for so long, I’m truly sorry. But you should remember me. You intercepted my path to transcendence three thousand eight hundred and twenty-five years ago. As a newborn human race, cultivating step by step to the peak, I also put in a lot of effort.”
“Very well done.” The Fishing Dragon Guest said slowly, “Only this way can I kill you once again… to slightly relieve my hatred.”
His voice had been without any ripples throughout, only at this moment did a trace of deeply etched emotion erupt.
And Ji Lan Xian was already unable to distinguish whether that was pain or resentment!
When he walked out from within the water mirror, it was exactly the key moment when Xuanyuan Shuo was fishing up Gao Ji. The success or failure of the sea race’s ascension, the transcendence of Gao Ji and Xuanyuan Shuo, all depended on this single action.
He did not avoid meeting the offensive of Yu Li Yang and Zhu Sui, nor did he interfere with the confrontation between other Sovereign Lords and human race True Monarchs. Reversing the life and death situation, he simply dared not delay by half a point of time, in order to precisely grasp the key.
Which was more important, the struggle for transcendence or the life and death of deriving Dao? Just like he could easily crush the will of Mirror Flower Zhu Biqiong and Zhu Suyao’s resistance, yet he did not go to crush this one.
All his power, spirit, and will must be poured into this moment.
Xuanyuan Shuo’s fishing had been fully awaited for three thousand eight hundred and twenty-five years.
How could he not also be waiting?
After his Dao body, which belonged to Fu Hai, was defeated in battle and turned into smoke, he passed a very, very long time before daring to activate Ji Lan Xian’s human body. He then used a lot of effort to cultivate to the peak with the human body.
He absolutely would not allow himself to miss the fleeting opportunity, and this wheel of crescent moon in the sky was exactly the key to this fishing.
So his first step was to step on the moon.
But this bright moon was like a hook… He stepped on the fish hook with one foot, although he temporarily stopped Xuanyuan Shuo’s fishing, how was he not already on the hook himself?
As the Fishing Dragon Guest’s words fell, his human body, which had already stepped onto the extraordinary peak and approached transcendence, felt pain in all thirty-six thousand pores, as if pierced by silver hooks!
His body instantly etherealized, but whether as a mirror flower or water moon, the moon hook was still there, as if locking the sorrow of a parting person!
At the same time.
The moonlight that illuminated the nearby sea, the Mi Realm, and the vast sea suddenly converged.
Countless moonlight lines instantly tied the free and easy Ji Lan Xian into a cocoon shape.
At the same instant, Ji Lan Xian changed into a thousand hundred kinds of postures, suddenly breathing out wind and thunder, suddenly dyeing his whole body with Brahman fire, suddenly having a water dragon wind body, suddenly having a body like diamond…
But those fishing lines correspondingly became ethereal and real, always following like shadows, and finally still firmly tied him.
This was entanglement at the Dao principle level, restraint of absolute meaning, surpassing the peak by a hairline, not affected by any power outside the present world’s limits… tying this legend on the moon!
But behold, the bright moon hung high, and Ji Lan Xian became a cocoon sitting on the crescent moon. Although his “cocoon lines” were constantly breaking and connecting, his Dao body also sometimes appeared and sometimes disappeared.
But this wheel of crescent moon was still firmly pulled back.
The endless rule fishing lines between heaven and earth were all stirred and entangled by Ji Lan Xian, which also allowed Wan Tong to escape from the fatal gap, unfold resistance, and not leave the vast sea. He was able to draw out power to protect the billions of living beings in the Yongning Sea Region.
But after Ji Lan Xian’s power was restrained, countless fine rule fishing lines twisted together, also twisting into a sturdier rope, which could bear greater weight!
Fishing lines can still be broken, but a rope can tie billions of jun.
On Tianya Terrace, Xuanyuan Shuo still sat alone, the blood rain in the sky had not yet completely fallen, and his face was still not revealed under the bamboo hat. But at this moment, he suddenly raised his fishing rod, the nearby sea was suppressed like a mirror, the entire Mi Realm was divided into clear and turbid, and mad waves rolled back within the vast sea!
With infinite great power, he exerted terrifying pressure on the entire Mi Realm, the entire vast sea… from the Fishing Dragon Guest!
Shen Du was his line, the moon was his hook, Wan Tong and Fu Hai were both dragons he wanted to fish!
Fishing two “transcendent” beings with one rod alone, what arrogance!
Hoo…
Mad wind rose from the vast sea, vast in the Mi Realm, roaring in the nearby sea.
That was mad wind, and also the sound of the ten thousand li dragon body exhaling on the seabed of the vast sea.
From the start, he had silently watched everything, quietly supported the sea race. Even with his dragon body fished up, he did not give up the sea race’s living beings. Even with his dragon horn cut off, he never uttered a sound.
Such was Gao Ji, opening his mouth for the first time.
No, it was not him opening his mouth.
It was Xuan God Sovereign Lord Rui Chong, it was Great Prison Sovereign Lord Zhong Xi, it was Wu Yuan Sovereign Lord Zhan Shou, and also Red Eyebrow Sovereign Lord Xi Yang… It was the entire Mi Realm, all the sea race in the entire Yongning Sea Region.
Billions of mouths, emitting one sound.
Its sound said:
“This is the wish of billions of sea race, Xuanyuan Shuo, do you think you can block it? We fight, for billions of subjects. We fight to the death, so that those who come after us do not need to die! We are born in a bitter prison, and we want to leave the bitter sea in death. Billions of people, with one heart. Before this great ideal, even transcendence is insignificant, like a mantis trying to block a cart, overestimating its own strength!”
From that bright moon in the sky to that dragon body on the seabed, this incomparably terrifying fishing line suddenly tightened at this moment. It emitted a loud bang that shook the eight directions.
That was an indescribable, fundamentally irresistible great power.
The great power instantly fed back to Tianya Terrace.
The Fishing Dragon Guest’s fishing rod emitted a painful cracking sound. He had to lower the fishing rod by several inches to avoid the danger of it breaking.
But cracks had already appeared, and breaking was only a matter of time.
Gao Ji was not an ordinary Dragon Lord for him to fish. Gao Ji was also a terrifying existence infinitely close to transcendence!
Facing two opponents, it was extremely difficult!
Just at this time, Cao Ji, who was still fighting Dao principles with Dao principles, raised one arm high, holding up a volume of crimson purple and supremely noble imperial edict, and shouted loudly: “We guard the sea border, calm the waves, is this not the wish of billions of human race?!”
This imperial edict instantly leaped high, leaving a noble shadow above that bright moon, and the real Great Qi imperial edict had already fallen in front of Tianya Terrace, tightly wrapping the gap of that fishing rod.
Bestowing this fishing rod with the incomparable heavy national power!
Contending with billions of hearts, with billions of hearts. Contending with the power of a hegemonic country like a mountain, with the power of ascension like a tide.
The fishing rod, which appeared inconspicuous, became noble and extraordinary because of the wrap of this purple silk. Majestic Qi country characters flew out one by one, flowing around the rod, as if putting a layer of character armor on the outside of the fishing rod!
And there was a flood-like sound that shook heaven and earth:
“Emperor Jiang Shu of the East Country, respectfully offers the great and the vast, with the authority of ten thousand li of territory, and the hearts of billions of subjects, decreeing the vast sea, bestowing calm winds and waves!
You shall respectfully obey!”
The national letter exchanged between Shen Du True Monarch and the Qi Court was this!
Fishing Sea Tower fully cooperated with the Mi Realm war initiated by Qi country, willing to sacrifice all people, from the tower master down to the disciples, willing to gamble everything of Fishing Sea Tower.
They only asked the Qi Court not to interfere, or even to support Xuanyuan Shuo’s path to transcendence!
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