ATPnovel Chapter 1532: 179: Grasping Like Star Sand_2
Chapter 1532: 179: Grasping Like Star Sand_2
Chapter 1532: Chapter 179: Grasping Like Star Sand_2He sighed, “For many people, where capability reaches, rights follow…”
Guan Yan looked at him deeply, “At least for you, young friend, it is not so… We have arrived.”
It wasn’t until this voice fell that Jiang Wang suddenly realized that unknowingly, he had followed Guan Yan to a fallen decayed tree.
This was an exceptionally large, already decayed Divine Dragon wood, lying on the ground like a wall.
Jiang Wang certainly recognized it—this was the landmark to reach the Skull Hanging Forest, which was Yan Xiao’s lair.
But he had just arrived at the Forest Sea Source Realm, having clearly only taken two steps with Guan Yan, so why was he already at the Skull Hanging Forest? Initially, they took some time to reach the Skull Hanging Forest from the Divine Shade Land.
“This is the power of rules.” Master Guan Yan’s explanations were always timely, rarely needing Jiang Wang to ask first.
It turned out that Master Guan Yan had exerted influence, so just two steps brought them here!
Jiang Wang had a bit of understanding.
He had experienced similar once before.
Back then, Chongguang Zhenren from Diao Hai Building sent him to the Lost World to cleanse his sins, where color was lost, the scene peeled away, the landscape shifted… and in the blink of an eye, they arrived.
But that time with Chongguang Zhenren was absolutely not as natural as this time with Master Guan Yan.
Natural to the point where Jiang Wang only felt he had taken two steps from start to finish, as if it was effortless, devoid of any earthly sense.
Yet, this was not the focus of this journey. Jiang Wang looked around at the surrounding environment, unable to hold back his questions: “Senior, this time you brought me to the Forest Sea Source Realm… is it because a new Yan Xiao has been born?”
In this world beyond the heavens known as the Forest Sea Source Realm, aside from Master Guan Yan, there’s another impression that’s deeply etched in Jiang Wang’s memory… the Yan Xiao.
The undying evil bird, the vicious predator of skulls.
“Once Yan Xiao sings, it must feast on hundreds of heads.”
At the time, their group had clearly killed the Yan Xiao, completing the task of seating the Divine Dragon, yet just before leaving the Forest Sea Source Realm… they heard the voice of Yan Xiao again!
That’s why when Master Guan Yan mentioned something matters on Star Moon Plain, Jiang Wang immediately thought of Yan Xiao.
This time returning to the Forest Sea Source Realm, Master Guan Yan leading them first to the Skull Hanging Forest further confirms the suspicions in his heart.
Thus, he asked directly.
Looking at the huge decayed tree before him, Guan Yan sighed softly, “Yan Xiao has never died.”
“How could that be?” Jiang Wang could hardly believe his ears.
The last trip to the Forest Sea Source Realm was when he teamed up with Wu Quji, Su Qiyun, and Qing Qishu, fighting to kill Yan Xiao. Even Qing Qishu, who always wanted “good relations”, sacrificed himself in that battle.
After the battle, they also dismembered Yan Xiao, and the beak was taken by him back to the present world, where Lian Que refined it into Killing Life Nails, which later became part of Buzhou Wind…
All of this was genuinely real.
How could Yan Xiao have never died?
Then what they killed was what?
Guan Yan said, “What you killed last time… was a projection, a shell, a God Rank.”
“Projection? Shell? God Rank?” The more Jiang Wang listened, the less he could comprehend.
Guan Yan raised a finger, touching it against his forehead.
Telepathy, also called understanding his heart, or realizing his intent.
Guan Yan’s related memories thus slowly flowed into Jiang Wang’s mind—
Eight hundred years ago in the Forest Sea Source Realm, Yan Xiao was born from evil thoughts, knocking on doors for food, devouring human skulls.
After the Senhai Holy Clan’s numerous resistance actions all declared failure, they decisively chose “hunting skulls”. They gave up direct confrontation with Yan Xiao, instead choosing to hunt and kill other tribes in the Forest Sea Source Realm on a large scale, offering the skulls as sacrifices to Yan Xiao, using the sacrifice of people from outside clans to save their own.
With the Divine Dragon’s protection, the Senhai Holy Clan was the strongest tribe of this realm. No other tribe could stop the Senhai Holy Clan’s hunting.
Thus, the Forest Sea Source Realm fell into a long dark period.
This was a brutal history of slaughter, a bloody tale of flow of filthy blood, a chaos that lasted for three hundred years.
In the period when Guan Yan descended, the Forest Sea Source Realm was already in a state of complete chaos. Hatred, slaughter, blood… all human vices surged in the Forest Sea Source Realm during that time.
If Yan Xiao was the greatest demon in the Forest Sea Source Realm at that time, then the Senhai Holy Clan was the most brutal executioner.
All “Dragon God envoys” who descended during the same period as Guan Yan were hunted and killed by the Senhai Holy Clan, their heads eaten by Yan Xiao. Guan Yan was an exception…
Another five hundred years later, Jiang Wang and others arrived, and other “Dragon God envoys” from the same batch also died in various accidents. Only Jiang Wang, Su Qiyun, and Wu Quji survived, and helped the Senhai Holy Clan hiding in the Divine Shade Land to kill Yan Xiao, completing the task of the Divine Dragon seating…
But this was not the whole truth.
How was Yan Xiao born?
Just like Jiang Wang at the time, Guan Yan was also searching for the answer to this question.
According to ancient records that Su Qiyun once saw—
“After the owl dies, the evil thoughts persist. Among ten thousand owls whose heads are displayed, only one would breed an extraordinarily evil bird from those severed heads… called Yan Xiao.”
This is probably the oldest record regarding Yan Xiao in the Stealing Heaven Mansion, documented in a legendary-like form.
It certainly has credibility.
Yet the Yan Xiao that caused chaos in the Forest Sea Source Realm was not born this way.
With telepathy, once Guan Yan devoted himself to seeking answers, the secret of human hearts had nowhere to hide.
After “questioning” all those who had direct contact with Yan Xiao, especially after “questioning” the previous elder council of Little Nagging Old Lady’s generation from the Senhai Holy Clan…
Guan Yan found the answer.
The Forest Sea Source Realm’s Yan Xiao was not naturally born from evil thoughts, but was intentionally cultivated by some existence.
And that existence… was the “Dragon God” of the Forest Sea Source Realm!
It was the Dragon God who created Yan Xiao, inciting fear in the Senhai Holy Clan.
It was the Dragon God who directed the Senhai Holy Clan to choose slaughtering other tribes.
Including the later “Night Attack” that swept the entire Forest Sea Source Realm, killing countless living beings, it was done by the Senhai Holy Clan’s elder council using forbidden techniques and borrowing the power of the Dragon God! That was essentially the situation directed by the Dragon God!
Then what is the Dragon God?
Why would the Dragon God do this?
Despite being named a deity, why did it become the source of all suffering in the Forest Sea Source Realm?
Guan Yan began to trace the entire history of the Senhai Holy Clan.
With immense courage and wisdom, he braved life-threatening dangers, exploring the lost truths in time alone.
He discovered that the Senhai Holy Clan wasn’t initially the “holy tribe”, even the Divine Shade Land, of great significance to the Senhai Holy Clan, was robbed from other tribes.
It was after they began to belief in the Dragon God, gaining the Dragon God’s protection and bestowed with the Dragon God’s power… Under the guidance of divine will, the Senhai Holy Clan rose step by step, becoming powerful, and eventually became the strongest tribe, becoming the so-called “holy tribe”.
And finally became the master of the Forest Sea Source Realm.
In this process, the Dragon God also grew stronger, gradually becoming the sole True God of the Forest Sea Source Realm!
Guan Yan’s memory ends here. This is the truth he found in the history of the Forest Sea Source Realm. It should be noted that when he first descended to the Forest Sea Source Realm, he was only at the Inner Mansion Realm cultivation level.
He was resisting against the entire Forest Sea Source Realm, fighting against the Dragon God who orchestrated all the tragedies, and unearthed the history of this realm alone!
With his heart shaken, Jiang Wang couldn’t help asking, “So all the things, Yan Xiao, Night Attack, dark period… were these Dragon God’s plans to strengthen itself? Like supporting the rise of the Senhai Holy Clan?”
The relationship between the Dragon God and Yan Xiao explained many doubts left after the last time in the Forest Sea Source Realm, but also raised many new questions.
“I think it’s a continuous line.” Guan Yan replied.
“Is that Dragon God aiming to destroy the entire Forest Sea Source Realm or swallow it?” Jiang Wang was even more puzzled: “As a deity, destroying its own believers, I truly cannot comprehend how it profits from this!”
Although Jiang Wang didn’t dare to claim he understood the cultivation of the Divine Way, he knew some basic knowledge. After all, the present world’s He Country and Mugu are divine nations, and he has visited both. He has also interacted with Bone Tao intending to establish the Present Heavenly Kingdom.
He knew that the Divine Way highly values its followers.
Yet this Dragon God, after painstakingly guiding the Senhai Holy Clan’s growth, didn’t consider how to unify the beliefs of the entire Forest Sea Source Realm, but instead exhausted its efforts to create the legendary supremely evil bird to annihilate the beings of this realm.
This is truly perplexing.
“Initially, I didn’t understand either, later I discovered, the Dragon God’s goal is not the Divine Position…”
Guan Yan raised his head, looked at the sky—
“But it!”
Jiang Wang followed his gaze and looked over, seeing only the solitary Yuheng Star, suspended in the high sky!