Chapter Fifty-Two: Blue Dream

On Liu Tian’s journey back to the kingdom by train, a momentous event was unfolding on Resurrection Island—a solitary landmass situated between the New World and the Old. Resurrection Island, named by its first discoverer, possessed the most chaotic magnetic fields for reasons yet unknown and unstudied, with treacherous currents swirling around its shores.

In this era before satellites, the island’s location was impossible to pinpoint amidst the vast oceans. Yet here lay the birthplace and true headquarters of Blue Dream Corporation. Decades ago, the founder, Blue Dao Tianwu—whose company now traded across the globe—had found an operational laboratory and a prophecy on this island.

The cutting-edge technology unearthed from the lab laid the foundation for Blue Dream’s early success, and the prophecy, which promised the opening of a new world, haunted Tianwu’s thoughts ever since.

As a peculiar environmentalist, Tianwu had watched humanity’s endless wars, devastation, and genocide, nurturing a singular ambition: to dominate the world and guide humanity toward something better. Yet, limited by his own abilities, he was powerless to enact real change. For years, he relied solely on his skills as a martial artist, assembling teams to excavate ruins and venture through deadly lands, hoping to find something that could alter fate.

Was it luck or misfortune? In his twilight years, on his final expedition, Tianwu found it—a facility capable of changing the world: multiple machines, all in good working order, that could combine human and animal genes to create super-powered beings capable of single-handedly opposing armies.

After eliminating his companions who had reached the site with him, Tianwu used the devices and their manuals to rejuvenate himself and father a single son. To declare his resolve, he named the boy Blue Dream.

In the last decade of his life, Tianwu poured himself into teaching his son: peerless wisdom, unrivaled martial arts, loyal followers, and most importantly, the dream of Blue.

Tianwu died smiling, confident that the son who had inherited everything from him—a son who would surpass him—would fulfill his unfinished ambitions and dreams.

Indeed, after Tianwu’s death, it took only five years for Blue Dream to accomplish what his father never could: he orchestrated a global war by every means at his disposal. This drawn-out conflict, spanning continents, claimed nearly ten million recorded lives.

Countless nations and factions battled for their dreams and interests across the New World, ravaging the land and diminishing humanity. Seizing the opportunity, Blue Dream Corporation, once bound by countless chains, prepared itself, expanding its influence and shedding restraints through the chaos of war.

At the war’s conclusion, Blue Dream Corporation joined forces with other powers to establish the Dawn Alliance, attaining enough strength to influence even a vast nation.

Yet this was not enough; Blue Dream was still far from his dream of ruling and reshaping everything.

Theoretically, at this stage, Blue Dream should have followed his father’s will to search for the Prism Pillars and obtain the power to open the door to the new world. But he refused to stake everything on fate as his father had.

What if he failed to find all the pillars? What if their power was not as immense as anticipated? What if he could not control them?

Too many uncertainties drove him to seek a plan he could fully grasp: a project called the Supreme Superpower Creation Plan.

Building upon his predecessors’ work, Blue Dream, a prodigious genius, led his team to reconstruct the script of the Lost Empire. This not only granted him more technological support than his father had, but in the years before the war, he devised a scheme.

According to this plan, by methodically integrating corresponding genes into a person and continuously raising their power limits, he could create an unprecedented super soldier—one capable of opposing armies alone, manipulating lightning, and acting with impunity.

Blue Dream believed that, if he could create and control such a super soldier, his own extraordinary intellect would allow him to forcibly rule, reshape, and dominate the world.

But this was only theoretical. Gene fusion was inherently perilous. Using unfamiliar machines, the first gene fusion—so long as the target gene was well-matched—had an eighty percent success rate, but each subsequent fusion lowered the odds, eventually dropping below ten percent.

To create the theoretical supreme superpower, thirteen different genes would need to be fused, with odds of success less than one in a million. The only way to truly succeed, besides gambling on luck, was to find a unique human capable of integrating all the genes.

To break his shackles and better search for such a person, Blue Dream ignited the war and entered the battlefield under the guise of a medical corporation, treating the wounded.

After examining countless bodies, he finally found the unique human—Bai Cinan.

At that time, Bai Cinan, sheltered by the Mandate of Heaven, was ignorant of the world’s dangers. Blue Dream, with minimal effort and a few traps and setbacks, made Bai Cinan forget the warning that Blue Dream was untrustworthy and fully won him over.

Now, Bai Cinan has undergone twelve transformations, indisputably becoming the strongest in the world.

Yet this is not enough. Though Bai Cinan can now, in certain battlefields and with favorable terrain, stand against armies alone, he still fears gunpowder, massed artillery, and his stamina has limits.

Frankly, with a million enemies—if they offered no resistance and simply stood waiting for Bai Cinan—he would exhaust himself before finishing them all.

A million-strong army still exists in several nations on this planet.

Thus, Blue Dream has not yet moved on to his next plan, but that moment is fast approaching.

A full year has passed since the last genetic modification. Bai Cinan’s body has stabilized, ready for the final, most crucial transformation.

Across the twelve previous modifications, Bai Cinan has assimilated genes from unique creatures painstakingly selected by Blue Dream Corporation from around the world.

For instance, the fifty-meter-long giant python from the largest tropical rainforest, the cliff-running monkeys that move with ease across sheer precipices, and whales that can dive for nearly three days on a single breath.

This time, Bai Cinan will integrate the gene of a super electric eel found by Blue Dream in the deep sea, capable of generating nearly ten thousand volts—possessing the strongest electrical power.

This modification is isolated as its own plan, called the Thor Creation Project.

Lightning is among the most violent forces observable in nature. Now, Blue Dream will use his own hands to grant his subordinate, Bai Cinan, immense power.

Blue Dream is confident of success and has already begun preparing for subsequent actions.

The Fourth Empire was mistaken. Blue Dream Corporation will become the world’s greatest empire—the only empire: Blue Dream Empire!

Yet, before executing this modification, he has some matters to confirm.

“Firebird, how has Cinan been acting lately?” Light and shadow divided Blue Dream’s handsome face in two as he gazed at the true Cinan—his own creation, yet to be unveiled—and asked, expressionless.

“Commander Cinan is clearly dissatisfied with his current position and intends to move further up,” Firebird reported. “Moreover, he seems to have noticed some past irregularities.”

As the sole commander of the Dream Beast Corps, Bai Cinan stood just below Blue Dream in the corporate hierarchy—second only to him. If he wished to advance further, Blue Dream would have to abdicate.

As for the “irregularities” Firebird mentioned, those were the rough actions Blue Dream had previously taken.

“He’s noticed, has he? Well, I never intended to play with him for long,” Blue Dream’s voice betrayed no emotion. “A desire to advance is a good thing.”

“So long as he has ambition, I needn’t worry about him being unaffected or slipping from my grasp.” Blue Dream turned to gaze at the dolphins swimming in the seawater channeled specially from the coast. “Under Tianwu’s killing doctrine and natural instincts, Bai Cinan is a man whose thirst for power runs deeper than blood. If he didn’t want to move forward, that would surprise me. As long as he doesn’t lose his mind and sabotage my plans by committing suicide, nothing else matters. But for this time, another layer of insurance is needed.”

Muttering to himself, Blue Dream voiced his thoughts in moments of exhilaration—his worst habit. In battle, this habit could cost him dearly.

But Blue Dream, powerful and high-ranking, need not fight in person; with genetically enhanced, all-martial Dream Beast Corps executives and Bai Cinan—the world’s strongest—at the front, he was secure.

“Install two more bombs in his brain,” Blue Dream decided. “All right, you may go. If Cinan acts out, report to me immediately. Now, I shall savor my masterpiece.”

“Hehehe, hehehe, ahahahahah…”

As Firebird withdrew and the doors closed, only Blue Dream’s peculiar laughter echoed through the conference room.