Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire-Chapter 864 479: Slumber, Sea of World Root (2)

The Xilantia Continent has been completely saturated and contaminated with Dragon Blood. On this land, finding a living creature that hasn't been tainted by the Dragon Vein is far more difficult than encountering a Golden Dragon by chance in the mundane world.
Because of this, this land attracts many creatures yearning for dragonification, especially the Dragon Descendant Warlock Families from the outside world, who rely on bloodlines to maintain their heritage and intimidating power. They are desperate to acquire the bloodline power from the Holy Dragon.
Noah's Land, the Eternal Golden Land, Dragon Realm
The original name of the plane has long been abandoned and replaced by various epithets. The name Noah has become the external name for this medium-sized Material Realm.
But Noah doesn't take pride in this, as it's merely an incidental product that naturally occurs after the rise of a powerful figure.
To the Dragon-men, nowadays Noah is more invaluable than even the Sun of the Material World. They would rather lose the Sun than lose Noah's patronage.
For the Dragon-men, Noah is crucial for his ascension to Dragon King. Without generations of Dragon-men venturing to the Floating City, conquering other worlds for him, it would be impossible for Noah to delve into the World's Root and freely observe the Root Rules of the world.
Noah and his servant clan mutually complete each other, but Noah holds the leading position, responsible for guiding the Dragon-men and directing their path forward.
Nowadays, the Dragon-men can no longer live without Noah, because they have conquered so many worlds. Without Noah, who is beyond a Dragon King, it's uncertain how many backlashes would strike the Dragon-men.
The prosperity of the Xilantia Continent, and even the Dragon Realm, didn't come out of nowhere. Although the Dragon-men possess production tools superior to many Material Realms and have a very high resource utilization rate, they ultimately need to consume resources, which were previously essential for the survival of other races.
Although when choosing planes to conquer, the Dragon-men Expeditionary Army under Noah tends to select Material Worlds dominated by non-human monsters, such as the Insect Nest World that Noah's eldest son Iliad has suppressed and conquered, more often there are no choices.
The Void has billions of worlds, but this is only true for the Void itself. Even for the Dragon-men, who have mastered the technology of crafting Floating Cities and can traverse the Void, finding a resource-rich Material World is quite challenging.
Some Material Worlds, although inhabited, hold little value for conquest. For instance, worlds that have been drained by their resident races and are now desolate wastelands.
Or worlds where ecosystems have collapsed and are on the brink of destruction, such as Dusk Worlds, or worlds with extreme environments, filled with deserts, oceans, glaciers, creating worlds of single-terrain extremes.
Therefore, when encountering a flourishing Material World, the Dragon-man Battle Group often chooses to advance, although the method of conquest can be more appeasing, using Dragon Blood as bait to deploy Dragon Transformation Towers, promoting dragonification throughout the world.
This method of conquest takes a very long time and its effects are gradual, but the advantage lies in the fact that once the Dragon Transformation Tower scales up, it becomes an unstoppable, irreversible trend.
Of course, not all worlds inhabited by humanoid races and wisdom civilizations are conquered by force by the Dragon-man Battle Group.
The Dragon-men possess superior and more advanced production and manufacturing technologies, giving them an absolute advantage over races still settled on land-based production.
Sometimes, merely through trade and economic exchanges, a world's resources can be accumulated and collected.
In all worlds that have been conquered, where dominance has been established, the Dragon-men do not merely plunder resources but also focus on developing and building up local production levels.
Many battle groups also choose to develop and build their earliest conquered Material Worlds as bases for logistic supplies and training grounds for new blood in the battle groups.
For the Dragon-men who have entered the era of plane colonization, relying solely on support from the native Dragon Realm is undoubtedly insufficient. No matter how rich the local resources are, they can't support the expedition consumption of the seventy-two battle groups that have already expanded.
Moreover, the local realm is not only exporting outwards; it also requires external supplies, which is crucial for their Lord's ascension to Dragon King.
Noah is now concerned about the gaze and potential threats from the Divine. The expansion of the Golden Order has already seriously impacted the faith of many Divines.
Since Noah does not fundamentally need faith, although the Word Spirit·Emperor requires faith to unleash power, aiding the Orderly Wisdom Races of other worlds in boosting productivity doesn't affect that and instead attracts more Power of Faith.
With the increase in productivity, the population naturally doubles, but the proportion of shallow believers decreases because their basic material needs are largely met, naturally eliminating the daily need to worship the Divine.
Perhaps because of this, the Divine show strong tacit understanding and unanimously suppress the productivity level in various Material Realms. Even the right gods hold a faint disapproval attitude towards this.
History has always proven that letting Wisdom Races develop infinitely will inevitably give rise to arrogant individuals attempting to challenge the Divine with mortal bodies.
Were it not for their sheer arrogance, it wouldn't matter. Yet civilization, reaching its peak, indeed breeds powers capable of shaking the Divine's Immortal Thrones.
This gives the Divine quite a headache, so it's only natural they consensually suppress the development process of civilizations out of fear.
Moreover, in harsh environments, devout beliefs are more likely to emerge. If people lack nothing and don't need anything, what need is there for the Divine if mortals solve everything by themselves?
Thus, Noah is highly suspicious that once he begins to ascend to Dragon King and enters a sleeping state, the Divine will target his conquered worlds and even his homeland, giving him little surprises.
According to the Dragon Clan's nature, once they enter a sleeping state, they disconnect from the outside world, unable to even control their own bodies, marking their most vulnerable time.
Although Noah is special, he's only granted his body self-defense capabilities. Even in sleep, Noah can't let his consciousness interfere with the outside. Otherwise, if the body can move and the consciousness remain active, is it truly sleep?
Because of this, Noah has concerns, yet ascending to Dragon King is inevitable. Otherwise, with the Golden Order's continuing expansion, even with the world guardians and cross-planar projective power, they can't suppress the Divine's discontent.
Without recalling any offspring or summoning any True Blood Clan, Noah coils up in the Heavenly Temple under the gaze of the World Will, closing his eyes and entering a dormant state.
Even if he doesn't feel sleepy, Noah has long transcended the shackles of Dragon Clan bloodlines. He no longer needs to endure the twelve aging phases. He only knows the peak, not the twilight years.
As long as he wishes, he can remain forever awake or endlessly asleep, enduring the ravages of time. When he receives the World's Will's favor, he already becomes an immortal existence, capable of shining alongside the sun and moon.
Yet Noah isn't satisfied with this. He wants to become a Dragon King, the Lord of the World, the legend of an all-creator worshipped by all Divines.
When Noah enters sleep, his dragon body in the Heavenly Temple begins to reveal its truth, stretching to a length of four hundred and eighty meters, as majestic and undulating as mountain ranges, winding and enormous.
Despite Noah revealing his true form, it causes no destruction to the Heavenly Temple. The World's Will expands the space, allowing Noah's forceful ascension and transformation unobstructed.
However, the next moment, the World's Root resonates and shakes as a will enters to explore.
This is usually absolutely forbidden, but this will is blessed and protected by the World's Will.