Chapter 209: Secrets of the Past

After returning, Little Wei Yuan entered his Sea of Consciousness for the first time, but the scene in the Sea of Consciousness left him stunned.

Everywhere in the Ten Thousand Miles of Heshan, there were Nether flies; the near ones were beside Mount Yushan, and the far ones were a hundred miles away. This time, Little Wei Yuan had caught several thousand Nether flies.

At this very moment, all the Nether flies were lying on the ground, motionless, with no vitality at all. Regardless of distance, their heads were all pointing toward Mount Yushan, as if they had suddenly died while flying toward Mount Yushan.

Little Wei Yuan picked up a Nether fly and discovered that it had completely lost its vitality, and the power of eternal silence in its body was dissipating, then gathering into Mount Yushan.

How did these Nether flies die?

But when they were just caught into the Dao Foundation, Little Wei Yuan could clearly feel them flying around everywhere in the Ten Thousand Miles of Heshan. The moment he returned to his original realm, all the Nether flies suddenly stopped moving, and their heads all pointed toward Mount Yushan.

Little Wei Yuan couldn't research a result, so he left the Sea of Consciousness to find Sun Yu.

In Sun Yu's small courtyard, Little Wei Yuan manifested a few Nether flies. Sun Yu's expression changed when he saw them, and then he took them away for research and chased Little Wei Yuan out of the small courtyard.

Next was that pair of butterfly short blades. After one leg had been severed, Little Wei Yuan was incomparably cautious with them, using several bells and tripods to encase them, and then pressing several Mortal-Suppressing Pagodas on top, only then cautiously handing them to the Eldest Senior Sister.

Although the Eldest Senior Sister was not very good at refining tools, she was an expert at disciplining tool spirits. The main problem with this pair of short blades was not the blades themselves, but the tool spirit.

After handing over the short blades, Little Wei Yuan delegated the important question of whether they needed to be re-forged entirely to the Eldest Senior Sister.

Then Little Wei Yuan returned to his residence; there were countless trivial matters waiting for Little Wei Yuan in the new day's realm.

First was the intelligence from the north. The main force of the Shaman tribe did not continue to attack the realm that day, but instead turned east, intending to swallow Yue Jinshan's border army in one bite. Yue Jinshan was experienced in warfare; the moment he saw that the Shaman tribe's main force had superior strength and was coming aggressively, he immediately retreated, fighting while retreating.

The two sides fought back and forth like this, fighting across several thousand miles within a few days, fighting all the way from the north of the realm to outside Hanyang Pass. Later, Western Jin sent a large number of reinforcements from inside the pass, which finally forced back the Shaman army.

After several days of bloody fighting, both sides suffered heavy casualties. Yue Jinshan's main force of eighty thousand border troops had only half left, and the Shaman army's casualties were roughly the same; the two sides could be considered a draw. Judging from the troop comparison and combat losses, Yue Jinshan still had a slight upper hand; the combat power of the northern border veterans he brought out was indeed well-deserved.

But in terms of high-rank cultivators, the Dharma Forms of various noble families who came to protect their own children were almost wiped out; except for the Behind Bao Yun True Person of the Bao family, none of the others escaped.

A moment before the blood curse began, the two True Persons, Fenhai and Lanhua, were originally with these noble family True Persons, greeting each other, reminiscing, and exchanging pleasantries.

But once the great battle started, Fenhai went to play chess with a peak Dao Shaman, and True Person Lanhua went to the Shaman tribe's main force to monitor their movements, while also deterring the Great Shamans of the Shaman tribe who were acting alone; both True Persons left their original positions.

Only the noble family True Persons felt that it was none of their business, and no matter how this great battle was fought, it wouldn't fall on them. One by one, they watched the battle calmly, putting more energy into secretly competing with each other.

Being sent to look after their own younger generation, these True Persons were naturally not ordinary. About half of them were Immortal Foundations, and the rest were special, powerful Heaven Foundations. Such Dharma Forms were also highly valued in various noble families; otherwise, they would not have been entrusted with the heavy responsibility of rescuing people in battle.

Before they came, they had all been blessed with Feng Shui arrays, and this was not enough; they also wore items of luck, or had high-rank cultivators in the clan transfer luck. After all, the saying about the Feng Shui lowlands of the Grand Void Palace's Heavenly Secret Hall was now deeply rooted in people's hearts. The high-rank cultivators were not afraid that their own luck was too good, but were afraid that others' luck was better than theirs, so they had done their homework.

With luck added to their bodies, the difficulty of calculating these high-rank cultivators had originally risen in a straight line, and they were all proficient in concealment Dao techniques, coming and going silently. Logically speaking, unless a Heaven Shaman took action, the Shaman tribe should not have been able to calculate the arrival of these high-rank cultivators, but the Shaman tribe just knew.

The noble family high-rank cultivators had just gathered when a blood curse came down.

Little Wei Yuan put down the intelligence, the more he thought about it, the more lingering fear he felt. Fortunately, the two True Persons, Fenhai and Lanhua, had been actively participating in the battle; if they had been lazy even for a moment, they would have gone with these True Persons.

Although the True Persons under True Lord Xuanyue were poor, their lives were truly tough.

In this great battle, Qingming could be considered a small victory in the realm battle, the northern Shaman tribe's main force and Yue Jinshan fought to a draw, and in terms of high-rank cultivators, the noble families suffered huge losses; overall, the human race still lost.

At this moment, the huge pressure made Little Wei Yuan feel a bit breathless. The next time might not be so lucky; perhaps he would be treated as a main target by the Shaman tribe. But Little Wei Yuan suddenly remembered one thing. According to the Eldest Senior Sister and Zhang Sheng, that Shaman woman with three pairs of wings had once sneaked into the realm and tried to steal the Realm Stone, only to give up because she couldn't solve the problem left by the Eldest Senior Sister.

That Shaman woman's cultivation was infinitely close to a Great Shaman, and her supernatural powers were strange and powerful, not much different from Ji Liuli and Zhang Sheng. Because Behind Bao Yun was too young and her cultivation was insufficient, she was still a notch inferior to her.

Such a powerful Shaman woman was on the battlefield, so why didn't she play a more important role in the war?

And those Shaman warriors and Shaman women Little Wei Yuan saw in the Nether Cold Realm also had extraordinary strength, but their combat power was greatly damaged in order to refine the protective shelter into their Primordial Spirits. If they returned to their original realm, their combat power would be discounted by at least thirty percent. This was seeking death on a battlefield where life and death were in an instant.

Little Wei Yuan instinctively felt that these Shaman warriors should have been active in the Nether Cold Realm all along and didn't return to their original realm much.

Thus, Little Wei Yuan had doubts: what was in the Nether Cold Realm that was so important, even more important than the human race's border war?

Unfortunately, the Nether fly swarm was too terrifying, and those Shaman warriors and Shaman women didn't even leave a trace of residue; otherwise, Little Wei Yuan might have been able to find a clue or two by examining their corpses.

The more Little Wei Yuan thought about it, the more uneasy he felt, so he went to the Merit Hall, wanting to exchange for information about the Nether Cold Realm. But after entering the hall, Little Wei Yuan discovered that he no longer had Heavenly Merit, so he had no choice but to find Zhang Sheng.

Zhang Sheng had abundant Heavenly Merit, and the information didn't cost much, so he exchanged for it immediately, and then the master and apprentice called the others from the Grand Void Palace to study it together.

The Nether Cold Realm, as Dream-Eater said, was the intersection of the outer realm and the original realm, located on the edge of the virtual and the real, with many strange and terrifying things. But this place was also the key place for Blood Shamans to advance; if they could not establish a kingdom here, Blood Shamans could not merge with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth and achieve the status of Heaven Shaman.

Previously, the human race had also tried to send people into the Nether Cold Realm to find out the secret of Blood Shamans achieving Nether Shamans here, and even going further. But for tens of thousands of years, the human race had sent many people in one after another, but almost all were wiped out, and they even lost two immortal cultivation seeds believed to have the hope of becoming Immortal Lords.

Since then, the human race had stopped exploring the Nether Cold Realm.

Little Wei Yuan didn't expect that the damage from exploring the Nether Cold Realm would be so great; over the years, over a thousand people had been sent in, and in the end, only a few dozen came back alive.

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But thinking about it, it was also very normal; just Dream-Eater's paper wedding dress trap could kill almost all the human race. After experiencing it himself, Little Wei Yuan felt that only geniuses of the level of Zhang Sheng, Ji Liuli, and Behind Bao Yun could possibly survive; their Dao Foundations and Primordial Spirits were incomparably powerful, and they each had immortal methods, able to wake up from the illusion. If it were anyone else, even Xiaoyu would be dead for sure.

How could a genius like Ji Liuli be sent into the Nether Cold Realm? If it weren't for being hit by the Nether Shaman Shuli's great curse, Little Wei Yuan himself would never go to the Nether Cold Realm even if he were beaten to death.

After reading the information, Zhang Sheng suddenly said, "This information doesn't explicitly state whether the Immortal Lords already know the secret of the Nether Cold Realm."

The Grand Void Palace's intelligence records had very strict procedures, especially for information that required Heavenly Merit to exchange. If something was secret and unknown, it would be recorded as unknown. But if it was something already known, even if only one Tinghai Xianjun knew, the information would either state it was known or simply not write it, but it could not be written as not yet known.

Ji Liuli said, "Then it's possible they know, or have some guesses, but for some reason, they didn't make it public."

"What kind of content could be so profound that even the Tinghai Xianjun is tight-lipped about it?" Little Wei Yuan was somewhat curious.

Zhang Sheng didn't speak, and Ji Liuli said, "There are many such things; there are many in history books."

Little Wei Yuan recalled the history books he had learned, and it seemed there were no similar records.

Seeing that he couldn't remember, Ji Liuli reminded him, "Have you forgotten the content that Feng Chutang taught in the two courses of Human History and Immortal Path General Knowledge? For example, how the first Tinghai Xianjun appeared."

Little Wei Yuan was thoughtful. After reading the information, the importance of exploring the Nether Cold Realm also rose in a straight line. Here lay the great secret of Blood Shamans advancing to Heaven Shamans, and if Little Wei Yuan made enough of a stir inside, it would be equivalent to lighting a fire in the Nether Shaman's backyard, which might be able to pull the Nether Shaman's attention from the realm to the Nether Cold Realm.

Little Wei Yuan's determination was made, and he immediately asked the Eldest Senior Sister and his teacher for Dao techniques and techniques for capturing living creatures, preparing to catch a few alive in the Nether Cold Realm and interrogate them properly.

Zhang Sheng and Ji Liuli naturally taught him everything they knew, and the various ruthless and insidious methods made Little Wei Yuan break out in a cold sweat. Especially Zhang Sheng, this teacher who possessed an invincible heart in Little Wei Yuan's mind, when it came to being ruthless behind the scenes, was not a bit inferior to Ji Liuli.

Unintentionally discovering another side of Zhang Sheng, Little Wei Yuan deeply understood why the Heavenly Green Hall repeatedly emphasized respecting teachers and the Dao.

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