Had Fan Zeng uncovered so terrible secret? One so dire it demanded not just his death, but the total eradication of his existence?
If the goal was rely to silence him, killing him would have sufficed.
To achieve complete annihilation where even soul resurrection is impossible—this clearly targets gods, likely fearing they might summon Fan Zeng and uncover so secret from him.
But couldn't one simply witness Fan Zeng's entire life through historical records to learn what secret was being hidden?
Not necessarily. Given the appearance of that portal, which remains impassable, anything said on the other side would remain unknown.
If Fan Zeng can't be summoned, perhaps soone else might provide useful information.
This person—Long Ju—was also seen by Brunhilde, always at Xiang Yu's side until he entered the portal.
Summoning him should pose no issue.
However—
[No soul detected for this individual]
Once again, she received the sa response.
What was going on? Could it be that after entering the portal, they had been completely annihilated?
She tried summoning others.
[No soul detected for this individual]
[No soul detected for this individual]
[No soul detected for this individual]
[No soul detected for this individual]
[No soul detected for this individual]
"Were they all silenced?"
After checking five people in a row and receiving identical responses, Brunhilde's heart sank.
The next mont, she perford a mass facial recognition scan on the remaining hundreds who had just entered the portal and attempted a bulk summoning.
The result was—
[No soul detected for this individual]
[No soul detected for this individual]
A flood of identical pop-up ssages made cold sweat trickle down her face.
Had the souls of hundreds of subordinates been utterly destroyed? Was Xiang Yu, the Hegemon King of Western Chu, truly this ruthless?
If he really was, then so of the historical records might indeed be accurate.
According to those texts, whenever Xiang Yu led his troops to conquer a city, he often committed atrocities beyond comprehension—massacring the entire population.
A thought crossed Brunhilde's mind, and she attempted to summon a group of black-armored soldiers.
After identification, she tried summoning them again.
[No soul detected for this individual]
Sa result. Had those black-armored soldiers also been disposed of?
"Sister, could it be that entering that portal sohow blocks detection?"
Randgriz, who had been silent until now, proposed this hypothesis.
"That's impossible! This is the call of the Akashic Records of the world. As long as they exist in this world, in this universe, no matter how well hidden, they cannot evade summoning. The only reason for no response is if their souls have been completely obliterated—beyond any possibility of resurrection. That's the only scenario where no reaction occurs."
Brunhilde's voice was loud and agitated, as if she found her sister's foolish assumption utterly laughable.
Yet, deep down, she shared Randgriz's suspicion—she just refused to believe it. And she couldn't believe it.
Because it was an impossibility. This was the Akashic Records, which docunted everything in the universe.
Anything that existed in this cosmos would be recorded within them.
Besides, didn't these individuals have historical records of their activities? That proved they had existed in this world.
If they had existed here, then as long as their souls hadn't been utterly destroyed after death, summoning them through the Akashic Records should always be possible.
If they couldn't be summoned, it ant their souls had been reduced to cosmic dust—hence, no soul could be detected.
What? Could it be that these souls had sohow escaped the universe recorded by the Akashic Records?
That was even more impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
The only explanation for this outco was an act of unimaginable brutality—a large-scale annihilation of souls to conceal sothing beyond comprehension.
If that were the case, the number of souls erased likely far exceeded Brunhilde's worst fears.
Taking a deep breath, Brunhilde summoned a complex interface and began rapidly tapping away with both hands.
At this mont, she seed to transform into a hacker.
Finally, as she slamd down on a button, more windows popped up, flooding the screen with vast amounts of data.
At the sa ti, Brunhilde's pupils darted rapidly across the screen.
[No soul detected for this individual]
[Soul detected for this individual]
[No soul detected for this individual]
[Soul detected for this individual]
...
The more information appeared, the more horrified Brunhilde beca—there was so much of it that it sent chills down her spine.
Currently, she was filtering a specific ti period: 259 BC to 202 BC. These two dates held significance—
The forr marked the birth of the First Emperor, while the latter was the recorded death date of Xiang Yu, the Hegemon King of Western Chu.
Her intuition told her that these two figures had so hidden connection, which was why she had chosen this tifra for her search. And indeed, the results sent a wave of dread through her.
She conducted a comprehensive census of souls from this era in the Eastern nation, only to find that a staggering number of souls were undetectable—not just among soldiers, but also among countless ordinary civilians.
The periods with the largest-scale disappearances of souls almost always coincided with major wars during the late Warring States period.
Hmm? There were also instances outside the Warring States period—specifically during the establishnt of the Qin Dynasty. One particular period saw the most horrifying number of disappearances, with millions of souls vanishing abruptly.
This period seed to align exactly with the First Emperor's order to construct the Great Wall.
At this mont, Brunhilde felt her scalp tingle.
A thought occurred to her—the First Emperor had sought immortality, sought to beco a god. Could he have resorted to so dark path?
If this dark path required the consumption of vast numbers of souls, then the complete disappearance of so many people's souls… could they have been sacrificed?
And if soone could erase human souls on such a massive scale, it would an the First Emperor wielded power beyond human comprehension.
If that were the case, how could the Qin Dynasty have collapsed so suddenly? And why was Xiang Yu the main force behind its downfall?
If the two were truly connected, then the fall of the Qin Dynasty might have been intentional—an attempt to conceal sothing, allowing them to lie dormant in the shadows.
Adjusting the historical ti node once more—this ti to the period of the Great Wall's construction—Brunhilde prepared to investigate.
Confirm!
Yet another anomaly occurred.
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