Beneath the lake's waters, a massive purple-gold beast coiled in place, its body surrounded by lightning that slithered like living creatures, illuminating the dim lake bottom with flickering light. What shocked Chen Yi to his core was that the beast's form was strikingly similar to the Eastern divine dragon he knew from his previous life, with one stark difference—the head, which should have been a ferocious beast's face, instead bore a countenance identical to that of a human.
"This is... the Thunder God!"
Chen Yi's incredulous exclamation echoed through the space. The image of the giant beast before him was clearly the Thunder God of from the myths of his previous life.
In his previous life, Chen Yi was named Fu Si, with the surname Fu derived from the humanistic ancestor, the foremost of the hundred kings, and the first of the Three Sovereigns—Fuxi.
Young people often become curious about their origins, and the teenage Fu Si was no exception. In that era of shared information, Fu Si learned about the origins of his surname and once took great pride in it—after all, it was Fuxi!
The emperor of heaven and earth, of unparalleled nobility!
The most famous story about Fuxi's origins was that his mother, Huaxu Shi, stepped on a massive footprint in Thunder god and became pregnant, giving birth to Fuxi after twelve years.
It had been six years since arriving in the Douluo Continent, and now, seeing what seemed like the father of his ancestral figure from his previous life—even with its strange appearance—Chen Yi couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart.
After a long while, Chen Yi finally calmed his emotions and voiced his guess to the Thunder God:
"Senior, the resonance you mentioned with the Thunder God divine position—is it not the aura of the God of Thunder?"
The Thunder God neither confirmed nor denied it, gazing at the God of Thunder at the lake bottom with eyes full of obsession and fervor:
"Correct, this is the aura that resonates with the Thunder God divine position, originating from the Thunder God's aura from a super-high dimension. But for you, this is not merely a wisp of aura—it's a bloodline of ancestral reversion!"
"Bloodline? Ancestral reversion bloodline?!"
As someone who had read fantasy novels for twenty years in his previous life and treated the library as his home since learning to read in this one, Chen Yi was naturally very familiar with the concept of bloodline ancestral reversion.
But he had never imagined that in this life, he wouldn't inherit any native bloodline from the Douluo Continent, but rather one from his distant homeland. So, the myths and legends of Emperor Xi from his previous life were true!
His bloodline truly came from this legendary mysterious deity!
"The God of Thunder, as the sacred being who wielded thunder and lightning in my previous life, and the source of Emperor Xi's bloodline, would be an absolute fatal temptation for the native gods of Douluo—especially the thunder and lightning deities."
Thinking of this, Chen Yi felt as if he had plunged into an ice cellar. As the saying goes, "An innocent man gets into trouble because of his wealth."
He was just an ordinary person, harboring such a top-tier bloodline without any world-shaking background. Facing a God King, he had no chance of resistance!
But the Thunder God paid no attention to Chen Yi's current state, instead directing his gaze toward the giant beast manifested from the God of Thunder's bloodline. Even though it wasn't his first time seeing Him, the Thunder God couldn't hide the excitement in his heart. Every scale on His body, every wisp of aura He emitted, proclaimed to the universe what the pinnacle of the Thunder Dao truly was!
After watching for a good while, the Thunder God continued: "Unfortunately, at that time, my divine body had already been annihilated, and my divine soul was on the verge of withering. Though with His help I broke through to God King, I 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, my remnant soul inevitably intertwined with your true spirit, and I learned of your previous life."
The air around the Thunder God suddenly froze. The gentle halo that had been circulating vanished instantly, replaced by surging purple-gold thunder that crackled around Him, distorting the surrounding space slightly.
"This old man has no complaints about this so-called fantasy—after all, weakness is weakness, nothing more to say."
"But that Tang San—he dared to scheme against my brother and sister-in-law, and then gave their divine positions to his son and daughter-in-law. How utterly unreasonable!"
From the Thunder God's tone, it was clear that the brother and sister-in-law he referred to were the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life from the God Realm Committee.
The God of Destruction and the Thunder God were both powerhouses of the thunder and lightning path. Since ancient times, those on the same path were either rivals or close friends; from this, it seemed they were the latter.
"My brother dedicated his entire life to the God Realm, giving everything, only to end up with his family destroyed and himself dead. How could this old man accept that?!"
"To rush back before that battle began, I burned my remaining divine soul to return, but I didn't expect that the Thunder God divine position, enhanced by this supreme Thunder God's power, would exceed my expectations, arriving at least ten thousand years earlier than planned."
By the end, the Thunder God's tone had lightened considerably. He then turned back to Chen Yi and said:
"However, I have completely perished now, leaving only an indestructible obsession. So you needn't worry that I'll do anything to you. Besides, this seat has lived an upright life and would never stoop to underhanded deeds."
Hearing this, the weight in Chen Yi's heart finally lifted. With a respectful expression, he said to the Thunder God, "So, Senior, what is the purpose of bringing this junior here?"
Since the other party harbored no ill will toward him and had already fallen, the reason for bringing him here couldn't just be for idle chat. Given His relationship with those two God Kings, the purpose was self-evident.
"Indeed, I wish to pass the Thunder God divine position to you, little friend. Across the entire universe, there is no one more compatible with my divine position than you."
"However, you may not know that this bloodline carrying your true spirit originally crossed the cosmic barriers and traversed the river of time to pass through this world. If not for my intervention back then, you should have gone to a far more prosperous realm—with your heaven-defying bloodline, rising step by step there and ultimately becoming a pinnacle powerhouse would have been a matter of course."
At this point, a trace of apology appeared in the Thunder God's eyes. In his view, Chen Yi's talent was sufficient to reach the absolute peak in any world, but this realm, dubbed the lower fantasy, was incomparable to the normal fantasy worlds he should have gone to. He had undoubtedly hindered the other's future.
"Senior, there's no need to blame yourself. Although this junior carries the legacy of ancient sages from my previous life, nothing in the world is set in stone. Without Senior, this junior might have been captured and refined by some powerful existence during the traversal through time and space."
Chen Yi had a different perspective. After all, the journey of transmigration was fraught with dangers. Even a God King like the Thunder God from Douluo could sense his bloodline in the temporal storm; naturally, even stronger beings from other worlds could as well. In a sense, the Thunder God might have unintentionally saved his life.
Moreover, the Douluo universe, as one of the rare fantasy worlds offering immortality despite ordinary combat power, was more suitable as a starting point. In Chen Yi's view, this universe had immense potential; it had simply taken the wrong path or failed to see the way forward. But with the bloodline from his previous life, he could naturally go further here—at the very least, it wouldn't be inferior to ordinary fantasy worlds.