Free Web NovelChapter 348: Chapter 188: A Cycle Passes in a Flash, Today We Slay a God
Bai Wu sighed.
"Yes. That’s why our Ancestral Land does its best to avoid conflict with fellow Celestial Venerables of the Human Race."
"After all, the Divine-Demon Races are already so much stronger than us. It would be foolish for us to keep fighting amongst ourselves!"
This was also why he had just asked Wang Xiao to release the two Celestial Venerables, Feng Qing and Yao Shi.
The Ancestral Land had always focused its enmity and resistance on the Divine-Demon Races. They had no desire for internecine conflict within the Human Race.
Unfortunately, some humans had forgotten their roots, willingly becoming the lapdogs and puppets of the Divine Race!
For example, in human nations like the Great Ye Kingdom, most of the Celestial Venerables, despite being human, followed the Divine Race’s every command.
Wang Xiao couldn’t help but say,
"The Divine-Demon Races now encircle us. Although the Human Ancestral Land possesses two of the Great Cauldrons, if a being who surpasses the Celestial Venerable level doesn’t appear soon, it’s like being a frog boiled in slowly warming water. Sooner or later, we’ll repeat the same mistakes of the past."
"I wonder, does the Ancestral Land have any countermeasures at present?!"
He knew that humanity’s greatest threat right now wasn’t the Divine-Demon Descendants within this world.
It was the powerful Divine-Demons lurking outside of this Heaven and Earth!
The Cultivation of these Divine-Demons had, in all likelihood, already reached the level of Tier Seven Life.
In their eyes, Celestial Venerables were not even worth mentioning.
They could be crushed as easily as one wished!
If they hadn’t been driven out of this Heaven and Earth for some reason,
the Human Race probably never would have had a place like the Ancestral Land.
They would have been enslaved for all eternity, left to the mercy of others.
Bai Wu shook his head slightly.
"We are also waiting. Waiting for a figure like the first human ancestor, Yu, to lead us in resistance against the Divine-Demon Races!"
"However, the current situation is even more difficult than what Yu faced back then."
"Our only hope, I’m afraid, lies with the Great Cauldrons."
Wang Xiao couldn’t help but ask,
"What exactly is the secret of these Great Cauldrons?"
Bai Wu said,
"Lord Wang, it’s not that I’m intentionally hiding anything, but I simply don’t know either. The only ones qualified to control the Great Cauldrons and know their secrets are the successive ancestral leaders of the Ancestral Land."
Wang Xiao nodded and didn’t press the matter.
In truth, he could guess the general idea even without asking.
An item capable of contending with a Tier Seven Life was, at the very least, at the Miracle Level.
Of course, it was possible it was even higher.
They sped along their journey.
Wang Xiao and Bai Wu didn’t discuss the Divine-Demons further, instead chatting idly.
Aside from a few secrets, Bai Wu was quite candid, telling Wang Xiao almost everything he knew.
Through this, Wang Xiao learned a great deal about the Ancestral Land.
「Half a month later.」
A glint appeared in Bai Wu’s eyes as he spoke.
"We’re here."
Wang Xiao was sitting cross-legged in meditation, refining the Death Dao Fruit and Reincarnation Dao Fruit that swirled within his Inner World.
Hearing Bai Wu’s words, he couldn’t help but look down.
Below the layers of clouds were vast fields of fertile land, mountains, and rivers.
And a continuous mountain range!
Within the mountains were pavilions, towers, palaces, and grotto-residences!
Spiritual Springs gurgled, Flying Waterfalls cascaded from the heavens, Immortal Cranes soared, and Spirit Beasts let out long cries.
A hazy qi, accompanied by wisps of spiritual mist, drifted about.
It made the entire land look like a paradise on earth.
The Human Ancestral Land was even larger than Wang Xiao had imagined.
It spanned over a million li, almost the size of several commanderies.
A great many common people lived here, perhaps over a hundred million in population.
There were Cultivators, but even more were ordinary people.
The two groups lived together in harmony, with no distinction between high and low status. frёewebηovel.cѳm
However, the most special place in the Human Ancestral Land was a valley in the center of the mountain range.
A faint spiritual mist permeated the area, making it difficult to see clearly.
Even Divine Thought couldn’t penetrate it!
It exuded a primordial, ancient aura, as if it had existed for countless years.
Bai Wu noticed Wang Xiao’s gaze and said,
"That place is called Primordial Valley. It is the true Human Ancestral Land. Legend has it that our first human leader, Yu, once settled there."
"One of the Nine Tripods of this Heaven and Earth is also in Primordial Valley, guarded by the successive ancestral leaders!"
Wang Xiao’s lips tightened.
"I’ve heard that the current ancestral leader has lived for nearly a hundred thousand years..."
He knew that the lifespan of a Celestial Venerable was not infinite.
At most, they could only live for about a hundred thousand years.
Of course, due to the existence of calamities and tribulations,
most Celestial Venerables actually only lived for fifty or sixty thousand years at most.
Bai Wu sighed and shook his head.
"The ancestral leader indeed has little of his lifespan left. The Human Ancestral Land is currently in the process of selecting the next leader!"
He knew this wasn’t much of a secret.
Anyone with an interest could figure it out with a simple calculation.
Therefore, the Human Ancestral Land had seen many more outside visitors recently, all hoping to probe for information.
The Human Ancestral Land was not completely cut off from the outside world.
It often received outside merchants, travelers, and others, maintaining a degree of interaction.
However, before gaining the approval of the Human Ancestral Land, these outsiders could only reside in the peripheral areas.
They could not enter the core region.
Furthermore, they could only stay for about a month before they had to leave.
Even Wang Xiao, in fact, had only obtained the right of residence.
He also could not approach the core region!
The core region was inhabited by people like Bai Wu and Hei Liu, who had lived in the Human Ancestral Land since childhood.
They were Cultivators who were unwaveringly loyal to the Human Ancestral Land and possessed a certain level of strength.
Soon, Wang Xiao recalled the Golden-Winged Roc into his Grotto Heaven.
Afterward, he followed Bai Wu and his companion and descended into the Human Ancestral Land.
In a village several hundred li from Primordial Valley, Bai Wu arranged for a private courtyard for Wang Xiao.
He handed Wang Xiao a white Token and said,
"Lord Wang, if you have any needs later on, you can contact us directly with this Token. We will do our best to accommodate any request we can fulfill."
"Alright. Thank you for your trouble." Wang Xiao nodded.
He saw that Bai Wu and his companion seemed to have no intention of taking him to see the ancestral leader, so he didn’t ask.
After all, they had only known each other for half a month. It was impossible to have gained their complete trust.
However, Wang Xiao didn’t mind.
He truly needed a place to enter seclusion and condense his Death Dao Fruit and Reincarnation Dao Fruit.
As for the matter of the Great Cauldron, it could wait until after he finished his seclusion.
Besides, coming into contact with the Great Cauldron too early wasn’t necessarily a good thing.
It might attract the attention of those Divine-Demons.
Before opening a Grotto Heaven, let alone reaching the level of a Tier Seven Life,
Wang Xiao had no desire to get too entangled with the Divine-Demon Races.
"We’ll be on our way, then!"
Bai Wu and his companion didn’t linger; they cupped their fists in farewell and left.
Wang Xiao let out a breath and glanced at the surrounding village.
Children in small groups played and frolicked without a care in the world.
Women washed clothes by the river, chatting idly.
Men tilled the fields, singing folk songs.
It was a scene of perfect leisure!
Compared to the people living in deep water and scorching fire elsewhere,
this place could truly be called a paradise hidden from the world.
’I wonder how long this kind of life can last...’
Wang Xiao shook his head and stepped into the courtyard.
He completely shut out the clamor from outside.
For the next period of time, Wang Xiao spent almost every day in the courtyard, occasionally taking a walk through the village.
Years passed, one after another.
Flowers withered and bloomed again; mud pits dried up and filled once more!
In the blink of an eye, a sixty-year cycle had quietly passed.
「Inside the courtyard.」
BUZZ!
Following a soft, muffled sound,
the originally smooth walls seemed to have been tainted by some aura, instantly becoming mottled and overgrown with moss.
It was as if endless ages had passed.
It was clearly the third month of spring,
yet the grass and trees on the ground withered away, losing all trace of life.
However, at that very moment,
a flash of light flickered and vanished.
The walls returned to their original state, and the plants instantly regained their vitality.
「Inside the room.」 frёeweɓηovel.coɱ
Wang Xiao sat cross-legged on the bed, sensing the seven golden Dao Fruits slowly rotating within his body, and let out a deep breath.
In sixty years’ time, he had finally managed to condense the Death Dao Fruit and the Reincarnation Dao Fruit.
Only the Matter Dao Fruit and the Void Dao Fruit were left to be condensed!
’Death Entanglement, Reincarnation Divine Tomb... so these are the Divine Techniques born with the Dao Fruits. I can integrate them into the Celestial Will Cause and Effect Arrow...’
Wang Xiao felt the power of the Dao Fruits within him. He rose to his feet, just about to find a place to test them out.
But then, his eyes shifted slightly as he gazed into the distance.
A furious shout, like thunder falling from the nine heavens, echoed throughout the Human Ancestral Land!
"The Divine Race? What is there to fear!"
"Today, we slaughter a god!"
