Chapter 3302

Sea God Palace, back corridor.

The innermost side of the long corridor was a dead end. Fate Priest Sophia pointed a few times on the wall in front, and connected star patterns emerged above, and the wall became illusory.

"Continue walking forward. After going down the stairs, it's Treasury No. 2."

Sophia's demeanor was charming, and her figure was full and alluring. Looking at this posture, Su Xiao seemed to have unprecedented peach blossom luck. In fact, this was not the case. Sophia was eyeing the treasure Su Xiao was about to obtain. Reality was just that realistic.

Su Xiao passed through the illusory wall, and the downward passage and steps appeared in front. Walking down to the end of the steps, a metal door covered with dense lines blocked the front. Using the key against the door, the door leaf, nearly a meter thick, slowly rose.

A slightly musty smell came head-on. That was what a treasury was like; what was stored were all old objects. It didn't matter if the smell wasn't good, as long as the things were valuable.

Su Xiao walked into the treasury and saw a figure sitting in the treasury, which made his heart skip a beat. Meeting someone in the treasury was not a good omen.

This person sat on a wide stone chair, dressed in rags, bony and thin, wearing a golden crown that was dim and lusterless. The brilliance of the gold was covered by a layer of stains, becoming restrained.

"Has the Sea God changed again? The curse of the royal descendants is really vicious, although I am not qualified to say this."

Hearing this hoarse voice, Su Xiao immediately remembered that this was the Trace King in Room 5.

"Hello, traveler from the outer world, I am Trace King Lusuman, the only Trace King in history to escape."

Trace King Lusuman opened his eyes. His eyes were pitch black. This kind of black was very special, as if it could swallow light and extinguish everything.

Trace King Lusuman sat on the wide stone chair, covered with a faded blanket. This scene looked strange, as if he should have been sitting on the seat like this all along.

"I haven't moved the things in the treasury. We've known each other for so long, and I still don't know your name."

"Bai Ye."

"I am Lusuman, as you can see, a Trace King."

Trace King Lusuman chuckled, making people unable to guess his intentions.

"The main city under the sea is more beautiful, unlike the royal city painted in the fourth picture, which is dilapidated to the point of being unrecognizable, almost turning into dust. After all, a thousand years have passed. No matter how glorious the past was, it is just a pile of dust now."

Trace King Lusuman raised his hand and said:

"I have spied on the past. The knight's iron ring is on you. Give it to me. As a reward, I will tell you what happened in this world, and a piece of advice that can save your life. Don't think about getting substantial things from me. I am very poor. After becoming a Trace King, I am destined to have nothing."

Hearing these words, Su Xiao took out a ring from his storage space. It was the 【Iron Ring】 he traded from the old knight. After pondering for a while, he flicked it with his thumb.

Ding~

The iron ring hit Trace King Lusuman's crown. After bouncing back, it was held in Su Xiao's hand again.

"……"

"……"

Both sides were silent. Bubu Wang and Baha tilted their heads at the same time. Such a serious conversation, they must not laugh.

"No need to test. A Trace King is not a powerful existence. We are weaker than ordinary people. If you know other Trace Kings, you will find that they often sit. This is because of weakness. I really miss the past. In my era, the Sun Bird was not my opponent. But it wasn't as strong as it is now, similar to the level of Os Guine, that guy who became like a donkey."

Trace King Lusuman's hand reached forward. Seeing this, Su Xiao flicked the iron ring again, and the ring landed just right in Trace King Lusuman's palm.

He looked at the iron ring in his palm, his gaze carrying nostalgia, vaguely carrying some regret. That's right, he regretted becoming a Trace King. He should have beaten those Seekers who persuaded him to become a Trace King to death one by one back then. Unfortunately, there was no regret medicine in this world.

Trace King Lusuman slowly told the truth about this world. What he said first was not the World of Paintings, but the older Old World.

The Old World was the same as a normal native world, a world with perfect rule systems. That world had many gods, so many that? In the peak era, the calendar era at that time was called the Ten Thousand Gods Era. One could imagine how many gods there were in the Old World.

These gods had strengths and weaknesses. They had one thing in common: if they wanted to move towards a higher level, they had to accumulate faith power through the faith of intelligent creatures.

The problem was that the intelligent creatures of the Old World all believed in the Five Great God Sects, which were: Sun, Earth Vein, Ocean, Sky, and Soul.

These five great gods were the five strongest among the ten thousand gods. That's right, the two representing the Sun and the Ocean later reincarnated into the Sun Bird Taihakak and the Sea God.

Gods were not so easy to create. Without a source, wanting to create gods out of thin air was only achieved by the alchemists of the Second Era back then.

Both the Sun Source and the Ocean Source had manifestations in the current era. The gods representing the Earth Vein and the Sky completely fell, and the god representing the Soul was the source of disaster.

The Five Great God Sects possessed the faith power of the Old World. The five gods divided their territory and bound their believers, not allowing them to be at odds with other god sects at will. The Old World back then was a Tier 9 mid-tier native world.

The prosperity of the Old World was because of the existence of gods, and its destruction was also because of this. The existence of the Five Great God Sects made other gods see no hope of turning over, so they broke their oaths, hard-pressed against the pain of being eroded by the oaths, and the ten thousand gods united to fight against the five great gods. Anyway, there was no chance to turn over, so instead of being slowly eroded by the Five Great God Sects, it was better to fight.

The result was that no one won. The god war hadn't been decided yet, and that world couldn't hold on anymore. When the ten thousand gods were preparing to drag all living beings to perish together, a Son of the World appeared. His name was Os Tobias.

Os Tobias didn't fight alone. The first thing he did was to unite those human races who still had reason and were not crazy because of faith, using his family members as the backbone to form an alliance. Among his relatives, the one he trusted most was his younger brother, Os Guine, that is, the Flame Lord.

Os Tobias's struggle began. Except for those human races who had been brainwashed by faith and had no reason at all, other human races, and even non-human intelligent races, such as the Sea Clan, the Extreme Clan, etc., all joined the alliance.

Os Tobias had only one goal: kill! Kill all the gods in the Old World without leaving any behind. He knew this world was finished and had to create a new world for people to live in.

After years of war, God King Os Tobias became the final winner. He slaughtered the ten thousand gods, including the five great gods of Sun, Earth Vein, Ocean, Sky, and Soul.

He not only slaughtered all the gods but also concentrated the source blood of the ten thousand gods. Before the Old World collapsed, God King Os Tobias took the broken World Core and went to see another Son of the World, Rosa Niye.

Rosa Niye was a very special Son of the World. She couldn't fight, only knew how to paint. Until one day, God King Os Tobias took a canvas and a pot of ink and found Rosa Niye, asking her to paint a world.

Rosa Niye felt inexplicable, but she discovered the specialness of the canvas and the ink. Having nothing to do, she painted according to God King Os Tobias's request.

The result was that Rosa Niye really painted a world, and she became the first painter of the World of Paintings.

Why could she paint a world? The reason was that the scroll was made of the broken Old World World Core, and the ink was the blood of the ten thousand gods.

The Old World was a Tier 9 mid-tier world. The World of Paintings certainly couldn't reach Tier 9; it was a Tier 8 world.

Before the Great Migration began, the dynasty was established. God King Os Tobias became the first monarch without suspense, but he didn't participate in the Great Migration to the world in the painting. Not only did he not leave, but those loyal subordinates of his didn't leave either.

God King Os Tobias didn't want to leave, but he knew very clearly that he was too powerful. Although the World of Paintings appeared, it was a world of the next tier. If he went there, it would cause all kinds of problems.

The world in the painting had no place for him. He was the Son of the World of the Old World, born because of the world's danger, and would die because of the world's collapse. He had done his best to slaughter the ten thousand gods, leveled all god sects, and finally allowed the ethnic group to continue.

Although God King Os Tobias didn't leave, he let his younger brother leave. The method was somewhat cruel. He cut off his younger brother's lower body, cut off the head and neck of the other party's warhorse, and let the existence of the two merge into one. Brother Donkey was also too strong back then, but after being handled by his brother, his strength permanently slipped, reaching the upper limit of being able to enter the World of Paintings.

After that, with the collapse of the Old World, God King Os Tobias's legend ended here. The dynasty he left behind, as well as his family, naturally dominated in the World of Paintings.

At first, people didn't notice anything wrong with the World of Paintings—that is, the current Main Painting World—until many years later, the first beast-transformed person appeared, and the beast disaster broke out.

The main reason for the outbreak of the beast disaster was that there was a problem with the ink used when painting the World of Paintings. This ink was transformed from the source blood of the ten thousand gods. Among the ten thousand gods, the five gods were the strongest. Among them, the Earth Vein and Sky gods were completely cold, the Sun and Ocean were about to be cold, and the only one left with a breath was the god representing the Soul.

The god representing the Soul didn't revive. Before it perished, it concentrated the power of the ten thousand gods' source blood—that is, the scroll ink—letting the ink spread madness and constantly erode the scroll.

The ink and the scroll were inseparable. The madness revealed by the ink was unsolvable and could not be notified. So to this day, the beast disaster was still rampant. This was revenge from the era of gods.

Su Xiao knew the things after that. The dynasty resisted beast-transformation disease through various methods. After the dynasty fell, the Sun God Sect stood up.

From this point, it could be seen that even in the World of Paintings, because of the historical legacy of the Old World, the God Sect was still not favored. Before the dynasty fell, it had always bound the Sun God Sect.

Trace King Lusuman also said a very key piece of information. After the beast-transformation disease became more and more serious, the dynasty began to be hysterical and directly attacked the scroll itself. They tore part of the scroll into fragments, and the corresponding position in the Main Painting World naturally collapsed, covered by purple-black semi-fluid.

The torn scroll was scroll fragments. Where did the ink on it go? The answer was in the bodies of the Trace Kings. Those who carried the ink that could paint the world were the Trace Kings. Several Trace Kings appeared in different eras, and without exception, they were the strongest of each era.

In fact, the Sand World and the Undersea World were once part of the Main Painting World. When the beast disaster was most serious, they were torn off from the main painting as small worlds for refuge.

The scroll was torn too hard, and the Main Painting World was left with only an ancient castle. If the last piece was torn, causing the ancient castle to collapse, the World of Paintings would face an end. Although the ancient castle was not big, it was the center of the World of Paintings. Having it and not having it were two concepts.

Simply understood, the Sand World, the Undersea World, the Royal City, and the Gubao were all located on one interface, just separated by purple-black semi-fluid. The ancient castle was the main painting and also a transit station for the other three inner painting worlds.

As for the first inner painting world—the Nightmare World—it was an imitation, a stitched world created by the Nightmare King.

There was only one Main Painting World: the Gubao.

There were three inner painting worlds torn from the main painting: the Sand World, the Undersea World, and the Royal City.

In fact, there were seven inner painting worlds in total. The remaining four were: Ancient Land, Gulabash, Sleeping Graveyard, and Ancient City.

It was very difficult to find the entrance to the remaining four inner painting worlds, at least they couldn't be entered from the ancient castle, or rather, there was no value in entering. The previous ancient city still had residents, but now it was a dead land, and the other three places had been desolate for many years.

After saying this, Trace King Lusuman said with emotion:

"I was born in a world maintained by the blood of old gods, grew up in its company, and will eventually be destroyed because of it. How ironic."

Trace King Lusuman smiled, got up from the seat, and walked towards a wall.

"Old man, don't hit the wall."

Baha spoke. Hearing his words, Trace King Lusuman smiled and said: "What flows in my body is not blood, but the ink of this world. In the world in the painting, there is no place I cannot go."

As he spoke, Trace King Lusuman's body had half-submerged into the wall, as if the treasury's barrier and the like didn't exist.

"Old man, where are you going?"

As Baha spoke, he landed on Su Xiao's shoulder. Trace King Lusuman hesitated for a moment and said: "To meet my destiny."