I Have a God Simulator

The Guest Monk led its Eighteen Calamity Beasts to unearth many fossilized remains from deep beneath the desert, all of them various parts of Dragon Race bodies.

Over two hundred fossils in total were spread out across a sand dune.

They were of various colors, belonging to three types of the Dragon Race: Red Dragons, Blue Dragons, and Green Dragons. The fossils included complete dragon heads, horns, spines, shoulder blades, wings, ribs, tails, and claws...

The Guest Monk pieced these fossils together into three complete Dragon Race specimens. The smallest, a Red Dragon, was the size of a two-story house, while the largest, a Blue Dragon, possessed a living body even larger than the Guest Monk’s head.

The three dragons were the Blue Dragon Tiris, the Red Dragon Puxi, and the Green Dragon Antonios.

But even the smallest of them, the Red Dragon, was far more robust than the Dark Sun Dragon Pasha.

Luh Yao had a faint feeling. ’Yunzhong Temple might be hiding some other secret.’

He immediately opened the backend interface and performed a deeper search on Yunzhong Temple’s various entries and descriptions.

After careful verification and repeated comparisons, Luh Yao finally noticed something amiss.

Under the [Desert] entry, the associated sub-entries were clearly different from other environmental entries.

Other forms of Rule Power, like [Rainfall], were shown as "Ineffective." Most Rule Powers failed due to invalid conditions or inherent malfunctions. The detailed description following [Desert], however, was filled with chaos and disorder.

A large portion of the description had turned into garbled code, or its order was reversed and misplaced, as if it had been deliberately altered.

Luh Yao had the Clockwork Monkeys switch their target and begin repairing Yunzhong Temple.

In the process, Luh Yao discovered he could feed Faith to this troop of monkeys.

Simply by dragging the Fire of Faith from the top-right corner over to them, he could boost the Clockwork Monkeys’ work efficiency.

Luh Yao spared no expense this time, directly allocating 100,000 Faith to feed them. This caused happy monkey-face emoticons to appear above the six Clockwork Monkeys’ heads, and their repair speed increased noticeably.

About two hours later, the costly repairs finally began to show results.

Under the [Desert] rule, in the [Development History] section, the previously chaotic and disordered garbled code and reversed descriptions returned to their true form.

Luh Yao read on, line by line, his expression growing darker with each word.

Yunzhong Temple was a Divine Kingdom built by the Cloud Guest for a specific purpose.

Even in its prime, over half of this Divine Kingdom’s territory was desert. The Cloud Guest had bestowed a special Miracle upon the desert, forbidding Apostles from setting foot in it.

The desert itself wasn’t important. What was important were the Dragon Corpses buried deep beneath the sand.

According to the backend records, a total of seven Dragon Corpses had been buried and hidden in Yunzhong Temple’s desert. The Cloud Guest had dissected the Dragons one by one, storing different parts separately for later use.

The so-called Curse was the Wraith Language of the Dragon Race.

In an ancient era, before the Cloud Monks and Sand Walkers even existed, the Cloud Guest set sail with Yunzhong Temple, overlapping it with many worlds. The Cloud Guest traveled from place to place, searching for Dragons on the verge of death.

It possessed a secret ability to track down the Dragon Race.

After finding a Dragon’s corpse, the Cloud Guest would immediately move it beneath the sands of Yunzhong Temple.

Dragon Corpses couldn’t be placed in the Artifact Bar, so it could only use its Divine Kingdom to conceal them.

But then, an accident occurred.

The Blue Dragon Tiris wasn’t actually dead. As it was being dissected, it used some kind of Dragon Language Magic for a final burst of life and laid its eyes upon the Cloud Guest.

The Cloud Guest was struck by the Blue Dragon’s [Endless Wail], causing its Divine Body to continuously weaken and rot. The Divine Kingdom, in turn, fell into disarray, its rules collapsing.

It had been getting away with it for years, but its luck had finally run out. This time, it suffered the Dragon Race’s backlash.

What followed was the history of Yunzhong Temple as the Guest Monk had described it. The Cloud Guest tried various solutions to no avail and finally departed with the Divine Hall—because of the spreading Wraith Language, it had to get away from the Dragon Corpses here.

The Cloud Guest was a Dragon Hunter—or rather, a Dragon Corpse Hunter.

It specialized in finding recently deceased Dragons, taking them for itself, and using its Divine Kingdom to store and hide them.

The Dragon Corpses were divided into various parts, allowing the Cloud Guest to maximize the value of the dragons’ bodies for trading with the outside world.

4,000 Eras had passed, and the Cloud Guest had never returned to Yunzhong Temple, where the expensive treasures it couldn’t take with it were still hidden.

’It seems it truly has fallen.’

Luh Yao looked at the Dragon Corpses on the ground, feeling a bit helpless.

The Dragon Corpses should be highly valuable, but the information displayed by the [True Sight Curse] was very general and didn’t say how to use them.

This made Luh Yao miss Cancong dearly.

’If it were still here, it would definitely be able to offer professional advice.’

After some thought, he decided to give the smallest one, the Red Dragon Puxi, to Philos first.

The Yao Race World was currently working on an artificial dragon project, so having a True Dragon specimen should be of some help.

Philos was overjoyed upon learning this, and a sinister skull smile emoticon popped up above his head.

"Lord Yao God, your subordinate will definitely make good use of this dragon body."

"A complete Dragon Race body... in the past, I wouldn’t have even dared to dream of it..."

He placed the Red Dragon into his Skeleton King Armor and hurried back to White Castle in a flurry.

When the Scholars saw the genuine, air-dried Dragon, exclamation marks hung over each of their heads as they gathered around the specimen, whispering among themselves.

"Whoa, a Dragon’s skin really is tough!"

"There’s a magical power in the horn, and it has a strange aroma, a bit like herbs."

"It tastes a bit salty... Was this dragon cured in salt? Could it have been one of the Lord God’s meals?"

"Shhh... Don’t talk nonsense."

"The Dragon Scales are intact. These scales are so heavy, and a Quenching Sword can’t even leave a mark on them. A Dragon is really something else."

"The wings are a bit shriveled. Should we soak them in water? The Dragon won’t come back to life in the water, will it?"

"It won’t. Lord Philos said this dragon is thoroughly dead. We can do whatever we want to it."

The Scholars chattered excitedly, all of them filled with novelty and excitement about the Red Dragon specimen.

Luh Yao pulled his perspective back to Yunzhong Temple.

He had the Guest Monk properly store the two remaining Dragon Corpses.

The Guest Monk sucked all the Dragon Remains and the surrounding sand into its belly, then opened its wide, fish-like mouth. "Please rest assured, they are very safe in this little monk’s stomach."

’Fair enough.’

Luh Yao turned his attention back and clicked on [Black Demon Fossil].

...

[Black Demon Fossil]: A concretion formed from the remains of a Black Demon after death and evolution.

...

This, too, had no description of how to use it.

Luh Yao had Isabel toss it to the Black Demon in the Volcanic Area. As soon as the fossil was dropped, the Black Demon rushed over and absorbed it into its body, its level increasing slightly as a result.

’Its purpose is simple and straightforward, at least.’

The Black Demon was now a High Level biological Refiner for the Yao Race. The higher its level, the better its Refining results.

Although life in Yunzhong Temple had long since been extinguished, it had left behind large deposits of minerals and fossils, which became the foundation for this Vortex World’s revival.

「Meanwhile.」

In the Yao Race World, the Wuzi Race’s Earth Traveling Boats had been surpassed and replaced by Fire Steam Carriages. Here, however, the Earth Traveling Boats were excellent vehicles perfectly suited for the desert environment.

The Wuzi People surveyed one mineral deposit after another, marking them for development.

A steady stream of ore was transported back to Sand City. After preliminary processing and collection, Luh Yao would periodically open a special channel from the Divine Hall to send it back to the Yao Race World.

For now, Luh Yao was still cautiously managing the channels between worlds; it wasn’t yet time to open them up freely.

A short while later, Slime Mod reported, "Lord God, Sand City has completed its initial infrastructure. We are ready to cooperate with your grand plan at any time."

Luh Yao looked down upon the desert city.

In a world of endless sand dunes, Sand City was the sole oasis.

Brass-colored Desert Roses formed the outermost walls and landscape. Inside the low stone walls, greenery was already flourishing in patches. Pine trees and the Symbiotic Forest grew tenaciously in this arid land, while Little Elves and Pine Slipper Rats continuously expanded the territory of green life.

On the straight, wide boat paths, Earth Traveling Boats moved tirelessly, delivering various processed ores to Sand City’s warehouses before heading out again into the deeper desert.

Outside the city, Yao Race Extraordinary Beings continued to challenge the powerful and ancient Cloud Monks, testing themselves against these ancient Cultivators and seeking breakthroughs on the brink of life and death.

Although it couldn’t compare to the five cities of his home world, Luh Yao was quite satisfied with Slime Mod for building a fully-functional city from scratch in such a short time.

It was time.

Luh Yao gave the order.

Preparations for two-way communication with the Ghost Realm and the Bamboo Reed Kingdom were to begin now.

Soon, Sand City would formally invite the first group of visitors from the Ghost Realm and the Bamboo Reed Kingdom for cultural exchange and to experience life there.