1463: Chapter 1464: Xuanyuan General’s Tomb 1463: Chapter 1464: Xuanyuan General’s Tomb “What’s wrong?”
Bai Qiu, who had already taken care of the other two ferocious beasts, asked in surprise as he saw Su Chengyu standing there in a daze.
Imdiately, Su Chengyu recounted the scene that had just unfolded to Bai Qiu.
“Rescue?”
Hearing Su Chengyu’s speculation, Bai Qiu was also greatly shocked and shook his head without hesitation: “Impossible,
ferocious beasts have long held a deep-seated hatred for the Human Clan.
Logically speaking, even in the face of a life-threatening danger, they absolutely should not be asking you for help.
Moreover, just now it was in a state of certain death; are you sure it wasn’t just begging for rcy?”
Su Chengyu shook his head and looked toward the spot where Taotie’s body had dissipated, saying: “No, I am certain it was asking for help, and the voice was extrely weak, appearing to be in a very bad state.”
Listening to Su Chengyu’s confident words, Bai Qiu reflected thoughtfully: “If that is the case, then this Taotie is not in league with the Demonic Path.”
“Like Ao Tian, is he bound to this place by the Demonic Path?
A true Taotie?”
After all, Taotie is a top-tier exotic beast on par with the Four Divine Beasts, and an adult Taotie’s power is at least that of an Earth Immortal, and even breaking through to the Ascend to Heaven Realm to reach the level of a Demon Immortal is not beyond possibility.
Bai Qiu couldn’t fathom what thods the Demonic Path could have used to enslave a fully-grown Demon God.
Bai Qiu spoke up: “When humans are at their most triumphant, their attitude toward ferocious beasts is not entirely one of relentless extermination; many are sealed away.
If the Demonic Path found a sealed Taotie, it is not impossible for them to enslave and drive it.
But still, I can’t figure out what exactly they did to that Taotie, to make it ask for help from you, a mber of the Human Clan.”
“Just like you can’t comprehend how the Demonic Path knew about your identity with Ao Tian, the God Beast,” said Su Chengyu, leaving Bai Qiu at a loss for words.
She understood what Su Chengyu ant.
Su Chengyu was using this issue to tell her that just because she could not understand it, did not an others couldn’t.
“Indeed, this land has beco too different from the world I know.
Now, the relations between humans and demons aren’t even as they were before.”
Bai Qiu opened her mouth with a cold laugh, and Su Chengyu chose not to comnt.
From Bai Qiu’s words, Su Chengyu knew that the status of the Human Clan had undergone significant changes in the past—the mont he learned that the Human Clan was once re food for the Demon Clan.
He did not know specifically what had happened, but there was no doubt that even in this land, referred to by Bai Qiu as the ancestral land of the Human Clan, humans had climbed step by step to the top of the food chain.
And now, inhabiting the summit, the status of the Human Clan seed to be showing signs of instability.
“Let’s go.
These three exotic beasts were probably just the gatekeepers; the deeper areas are likely where the Demonic Path’s prisons and captives lie.”
Bai Qiu nodded and did not continue to ponder.
No matter what the Demonic Path intended to do, or what kind of changes would happen between humans and demons in the future, for Bai Qiu the most urgent task was to rescue Ao Tian from this demon den.
Kui Niu and Zhu Huai.
These were the nas of the other two ferocious beasts Bai Qiu had slain.
It was uncertain if their not dying at the hands of Green Lotus Godfire had anything to do with it.
Their bodies, upon death, left no corpses behind like the Taotie.
Although Bai Qiu had already directly consud the Demon Cores, she still left quite a few treasures for Su Chengyu.
The hide of Kui Niu, the horn of Zhu Huai…
These were excellent materials whether for crafting elixirs or for tool refinent.
After traveling a couple of hundred ters more, the lake behind them completely disappeared, and the two of them arrived on shore along a shallow bank.
A stele five ters tall stood in front of them.
Su Chengyu could not recognize the ancient text on it, so he could only look to Bai Qiu at his side.
Having transford back into human form, Bai Qiu approached the stele, gently caressing it.
The characters on it imdiately emitted a faint golden light, and Su Chengyu felt an oppressive power from the Remote Ancient Era bearing down upon him.
“General’s Tomb.”
Bai Qiu softly said the na inscribed on the stele to Su Chengyu.
“Which general?”
Bai Qiu shook her head: “I don’t know.
But judging from the age, the stele is at least tens of thousands of years old, which ans it dates back to the Ancient Tis.
Back then, below the emperors, there were the generals.”
Events from the Ancient Tis are not entirely unrecorded to this day.
It is said that among the Ancient Clans of today, several are descendants from the Ancient Tis, with lineages that have continued to the present.
“Do you know which emperor from the Ancient Tis it refers to?”
Bai Qiu looked at the stele carefully once more, then shook her head and said, “I don’t know.
There are no specific years recorded.
However, based on the introduction on this stele, this small world, directly connected to the Qinling Land Vein, is not only the burial ground of this general but also where he suppressed the ferocious beasts he fought against during his lifeti.”
Su Chengyu was startled and then imdiately said, “So, this place was originally ant for suppressing ferocious beasts?
Then the practitioners of the Demonic Path…”
“There’s a high probability that they have already occupied this place.
There are signs that the stele has been activated within the last hundred years.
Considering that, your previous guess might be possible.”
Su Chengyu’s thoughts quickly shifted, and he imdiately said, “Even during the Ancient Tis, there weren’t many Taoties, right?”
In the Ancient Tis, humankind was already the master of this world, and although ferocious beasts still road freely, they were greatly suppressed and no longer as rampant as in the Remote Ancient Era.
Bai Qiu was reminded by that statent and after another glance at the stele, she said softly,
“This general has the surna Xuanyuan.”
While Su Chengyu and Bai Qiu were directly searching for the entrance, Chen ngng and Bei Tang Qianxiao, who had co along the water path towards the General’s Tomb, also finally reached their destination.
Chen ngng stopped in front of a passageway that simply did not allow passage and after pondering for a while, she said, “Qianxiao sister, it seems like soone has been here.”
“Soone?”
“Soone.”
Chen ngng firmly noted then stepped to the side of the passageway and employed a secret technique of the Qingcheng Sect.
Imdiately a virtual human breath appeared in front of them.
It lingered in front of the narrow passage for a while before suddenly shrinking in size and then directly slipping into it.
“Art of Transformation?”
Bei Tang Qianxiao frowned and exclaid in surprise.
For the Demon Clan, the Art of Transformation is sothing they naturally acquire after cultivating to a certain realm; the fundantal form of the Demon Clan’s shape-shifting stems from this kind of transformation art.
For the Human Clan, however, the Art of Transformation is an extrely complex Divine Skill, not only difficult to cultivate, but also often unsatisfactory in terms of effects, hence very few people delve into it.
“The aura is sowhat strange; it doesn’t seem like that of a normal human cultivator but rather resembles those from the Demonic Path.”
Chen ngng was employing the Qi Watching Technique, a Dao technique of the Qingcheng Sect.
This Dao technique, commonly used by the Four major Taoist sects, does not solely function as a ans to foresee a person’s fate.
It can also clearly detect the traces of aura left by cultivators in the world, providing significant assistance in combat.
Chen ngng had studied the Qi Watching Technique more extensively than Su Chengyu.
Relying on the residual aura at this place, she too could deduce so information about the individual who had previously been here.
Listening to the information provided by Chen ngng, Bei Tang Qianxiao said with a furrowed brow, “So it’s very likely that those from the Demonic Path have entered the interior of General Ridge from this place.
What lies beyond this passage is probably the heartland of their territory.”
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