Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Chapter 706: Chapter 305: Mentor and Disciple Open Their Hearts

“Desolate Ancient Continent… is a dead-end path?”

Ji Yuan heard this and couldn’t help but widen his eyes.

“Master, what do you mean by this?”

“Why would Master still want to bring… bring our sect over there if it’s a dead-end path?”

Perhaps Hua Yaoyue’s words were too shocking, causing Ji Yuan to ask three consecutive questions.

Hua Yaoyue listened to these questions, her tone still calm.

“Because if they stay on Cangluo Continent, there is only a dead-end for them.”

“But if they go to Desolate Ancient Continent, even though it’s a dead-end path, at least they can survive, right?”

Ji Yuan remained silent.

The words were harsh, but this was the truth.

“Can you explain a bit about this dead-end path, Master?”

“I can, but you must keep it to yourself after hearing it and never tell outsiders. If this gets out, the impact will be significant.”

Hua Yaoyue rarely cautioned him like this.

“Yes.”

Ji Yuan hurriedly agreed.

At the same time, he grew more curious about Hua Yaoyue’s background; not only did she know countless secrets.

What made Ji Yuan find her exceptional was that nothing in the world seemed difficult for her.

“Do you remember how I first described to you the Desolate Ancient Continent?”

Hua Yaoyue asked.

Ji Yuan recalled for a while, then tentatively said:

“Master, you mentioned that in Cangluo Continent and its nearby lands, the Desolate Ancient Continent is the one most lacking in resources, even inferior to our Cangluo Continent.”

“Yet in this kind of continent, there exists a sect much stronger than our Shang Dong Six Immortal Sects, called Taiyi Immortal Sect, which even has a Void Refinement Realm ancestor within.”

“Correct.”

Hua Yaoyue nodded.

“So by dead-end path, do you mean that the Desolate Ancient Continent’s scarcity of resources is due to the birth of such a powerful sect?”

Ji Yuan asked.

Hua Yaoyue explained, “It’s because Desolate Ancient Continent is a dead-end path, thus it’s resource-scarce.

Not the other way around; don’t confuse the cause-and-effect relationship here.”

“As for the reason behind being a dead-end…”

Hua Yaoyue placed her hands behind her back, looked up at the sky for a long while, and then said:

“What is the fight between the strongest cultivators that you know of like?”

“The fight between the strongest cultivators?”

Ji Yuan pondered, “Master had said once that at our Water Dragon Sect’s land, a True Dragon was slain… that should be the most powerful fight among cultivators I’m aware of.”

“That’s not enough. The True Dragon slain back then was not high enough in rank; I heard it was surrounded by several Void Refining Cultivators, and later a half-step Integration cultivator claimed the credit.”

Hua Yaoyue shook her head, seemingly not taking it to heart.

Yet even so, it greatly shocked Ji Yuan.

So the True Dragon was besieged by Void Refining Cultivators… and a half-step Integration cultivator claimed the credit.

This is truly a celestial battle, isn’t it?

“Enough, I’ll tell you directly.”

Hua Yaoyue arched her eyebrow, seemingly tired of keeping him in suspense, and straightforwardly said:

“Someone once turned the entire Desolate Ancient Continent into a battlefield, fought for decades.”

Ji Yuan: “???”

“A battle that shattered the sky and rent the earth, resulting in casualties of millions and millions.”

“It was after that battle that the formerly prosperous Desolate Ancient Continent became a wasteland… continents shattered, Spiritual Qi depleted, in your words…”

“The Spiritual Qi tax of Desolate Ancient Continent has been collected up to ten thousand years in advance.”

Ji Yuan continued to stare.

These matters, to him, a mere Foundation Establishment Cultivator, were akin to hearing tales from heaven.

Even tales of heaven aren’t as exaggerated.

What does it mean to use an entire continent as a battlefield?

And fight in such a way that the Spiritual Qi tax is collected ten thousand years in advance?

He was so stunned he couldn’t speak.

Hua Yaoyue continued in detail: “But if it were just like this, the Desolate Ancient Continent would at most be considered depleted of Spiritual Qi, making cultivation difficult, still far from being a dead-end.”

“The true reason it’s called a dead-end path…is because back then, it was a demon-slaying battle.”

“Demon-slaying?”

Ji Yuan pricked up his ears.

“Yes, true demons, rumored to have descended from the demonic world, true demons. At that time, those fighting against the demon were also Mahayana Cultivators from the Human Realm.”

Hua Yaoyue mentioned this, even she took a deep breath.

For Ji Yuan, there was even less to say.

It was like opening a door to a new world, it could be said that his vision and knowledge were elevated infinitely.

“Master, what is the demonic world…”

Ji Yuan wasn’t sure if Hua Yaoyue would disclose it, so he dared to softly inquire.

“What we have is called the Human Realm, post-Mahayana ascension leads to the Immortal Realm.

The demonic world is a great world parallel to the Immortal Realm, celestial and demon, demon, exists akin to a celestial being.”

“Did the Human Race Cultivators win that battle back then?”

“We won, if not, our entire Human Realm would have been overtaken by demons.”

Hua Yaoyue sighed, “But the Desolate Ancient Continent became contaminated with too much Demonic Qi due to that battle… But another story is that the demon cast a curse before dying.”

“The curse was initially aimed at our entire Human Realm but was restrained by a Mahayana Cultivator of the Human Race as they sacrificed themselves to confine the curse within the Desolate Ancient Continent.”

“Then what exactly was that curse?” Ji Yuan asked.