Behind the mountain of the Royal Tiandou Academy, where the Imperial Battle Team often trained.
Xiao Lin leaned against a large tree, reading a book he had borrowed from the Royal Tiandou Academy's library.
The book described the geographical environment of the Tiandou Empire—various terrains, landforms, and even the distribution of certain soul beasts.
Xiao Lin was already halfway through when he finally realized that the paper Yu Xiaogang had published earlier was plagiarized yet again.
This book was unremarkable at first glance, but surprisingly, it clearly explained the habitats of many soul beasts, making it quite different from other texts.
What Xiao Lin really wanted to find, however, was information about where fossils might exist.
He felt a bit regretful—he had trusted the people of Douluo Star too much.
He had actually believed that the people of Douluo Star would care about geographical changes and record them.
A planet that couldn't even properly summarize and systematize cultivation methods—how could it possibly understand changes in continental structure?
The more Xiao Lin thought about it, the more absurd it seemed.
After all, the people of Douluo Star only became aware of each other's existence when the two continents literally collided.
That was ridiculous. In any normal society, long-distance navigation would have discovered the other side early on, followed by trade or war.
Could it be that the area where the Sun Moon Continent and Douluo Continent collided was originally uninhabited?
Forget it—he wasn't going to make excuses for these idiots.
Still, speaking of it—could continental drift really be that fast?
Or was Douluo Continent actually some kind of balloon planet?
Thinking back to when he was six years old, Xiao Lin had already noticed that this world was over three times larger than the one described in the original novel from his past life. In reality, it should still be a fairly normal world.
So then—was the Sun Moon Continent actually formed from a transformed soul beast?
And then moved over to the side of Douluo Continent?
According to what the Two Dragon Kings had said, the Mountain Dragon King was responsible for transforming mountains and continents. That meant Douluo Continent itself might also have been formed in this way.
Then did that mean the land beneath his feet was actually transformed from the Mountain Dragon King?
At the thought of this, Xiao Lin couldn't help but stand up and stomp the ground hard a few times.
Unfortunately, apart from dust flying up, nothing happened.
Within the space of consciousness, the Two Dragon Kings were also stunned by Xiao Lin's actions.
"Xiao Lin, what are you doing?"
The Fire Dragon King looked worried. He had always feared that something might be wrong with Xiao Lin's mind.
After all, Xiao Lin was constantly thinking about all kinds of bizarre things.
With the two of them around, all he needed to do was obediently grow stronger—yet he insisted on pondering things like the Dragon God Art or whatever.
Even if such a thing really existed, they were dragons—how were they supposed to teach a human?
"Old Fire, do you think the land under my feet was transformed from the Mountain Dragon King?"
Xiao Lin asked curiously, a glint of wisdom flashing in his eyes.
"It's over. Xiao Lin has really gone mad."
The Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King looked at each other, then spoke in despair.
Only Lei Lei stood there with a blank expression.
"I'm not crazy. I'm being serious."
"Crazy people never admit they're crazy."
The Ice Dragon King said bitterly.
"Damn it! Weren't you the ones who said the Mountain Dragon King could transform into mountains and continents? Isn't it perfectly reasonable for me to infer this now?"
Xiao Lin exploded in anger. You could call him weak, but you couldn't call him stupid.
He was clearly deducing this based on what the Two Dragon Kings had said, yet now he was being mocked for it.
Otherwise, how would the two continents collide in the future?
Continental plates that were tightly bound to a planet wouldn't move that fast, right?
But just as Xiao Lin was about to bring up the theory of continental drift, he quickly halted his own reasoning.
Douluo Continent didn't have a history of only ten thousand years—and the collision with the Sun Moon Empire was something that would happen several thousand years in the future.
So what about the ten thousand years before that? Or even a hundred thousand years? Had no continental collisions occurred then?
Didn't that imply that the continents didn't move nearly as fast as Xiao Lin had imagined?
Even so, it was still far faster than on Xiao Lin's home planet from his previous life.
And yet, in the span of just a few thousand years afterward, the two continents seemed to slam together as if an accelerator had been activated, drastically shortening the time.
It couldn't be that the Sun Moon Continent wasn't originally part of this world, right?
Fortunately, the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings understood that Xiao Lin was trying to find fossils of the Mountain Dragon King.
They offered some guidance.
"The Mountain Dragon King transformed into mountains and continents to assist the reproduction of the dragon race. Therefore, any place with a large concentration of dragons may well be land transformed from the Mountain Dragon King."
Damn it—hearing the two Dragon Kings say that left Xiao Lin speechless.
What kind of guidance was that? Anywhere with lots of dragons might be land transformed from the Mountain Dragon King?
If Xiao Lin could actually find a place with a large number of dragons, he didn't believe their average soul power age would be low.
There would definitely be plenty of dragons over a hundred thousand years old—enough to make Xiao Lin a full set of soul bones, at least.
If that were the case, why would he still need fossil soul bones?
Moreover, what Xiao Lin wanted were external soul bones.
That was precisely why he wanted to find the Mountain Dragon King's fossils without killing soul beasts.
Sigh… the Two Dragon Kings only needed to talk casually like this, but Xiao Lin had so many things to consider.
Still, even though he didn't extract the information he wanted from them, Xiao Lin did think of a place that might truly have so-called soul bones.
The Great Wasteland—the far western lands.
That place was all desert and yellow sand now, but it had once been fertile land.
After all, it had been territory of the previous soul tool civilization. Now that it had become what it was, there might well be plenty of fossils buried there.
Just like how diamonds can form in places struck by nuclear explosions.
A force capable of erasing an entire civilization would very likely leave behind its own "diamonds."
When Xiao Lin shared his hypothesis with the Two Dragon Kings, they were instantly impressed by his insight.
"Xiao Lin, I didn't expect you to think of that."
The Ice Dragon King nodded approvingly and praised him.
"The Great Wasteland does indeed have a chance of containing the fossils you're looking for—but they might not be easy to find."
At that moment, the Fire Dragon King also lowered Xiao Lin's expectations.
"If it were a normal area destroyed by a powerful force, then from above it would look like a massive crater, making it easier to search."
"But you said the Great Wasteland has already turned into a desert. That kind of terrain is simply too vast and extreme for humans."
Hearing this, Xiao Lin gave a disdainful smile.
He had a spirit-gathering array soul tool—he could just search for places with strong energy fluctuations. He wouldn't be wandering around blindly.
And even if the Great Wasteland didn't work, Xiao Lin had thought of two other places.
One was beneath the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes in the Sunset Forest—where the two Dragon Kings had once fought and fallen. Such an intense battle might have long since altered the terrain there.
There might well be other fossils beneath the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes.
The other was around Seagod Island. If possible, asking the sea soul beasts whether they knew of drastic terrain changes there would also be a good approach.
And speaking of it, wasn't the greatest treasure in the sea that Deep Sea Demon Whale King—nearly a million-year-old soul beast?
With a body close to that of a god, even if it later helped Tang San obtain a million-year torso bone, Xiao Lin could still have the Two Dragon Kings refine the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's corpse.
In an instant, its remaining energy could be condensed into a brand-new soul bone.
Come to think of it, would a nearly million-year-old soul beast like the Deep Sea Demon Whale King have two soul cores?
If one soul core equaled one soul bone, then the Deep Sea Demon Whale King would absolutely have enough energy to provide Xiao Lin with another soul bone approaching a million years.
And as a whale-type soul beast, its whale jelly couldn't be wasted either.
Coincidentally, Xiao Lin had been worrying that the members of the Imperial Battle Team lacked the potential of the original timeline's Shrek Seven Monsters.
Even if it wasn't fairy grass, million-year whale jelly would be more than enough to boost their talent and potential.
That's what you call one whale, three uses.
(End of Chapter)