Capítulo 1208: Chapter 352: Unprecedented Expansion of Power! Gathering of Venerables
Thinking this way, after leaving the prison where Venerable Yuan Gu was, and settling the Blood Crocodile Venerable, Fang Ze also looked at the list of Venerables the Flower God gave him, which he could target.
Although Venerable Yuan Gu, to avoid suspicion, did not tell Fang Ze which Venerables knew about the “Heavenly Mandate” matter. However, with the Blood Crocodile’s journal, Fang Ze could still deduce it well.
To put it frankly, any Venerable who knows about this matter must have been one of the Venerables who besieged the Blue Blood Venerable back then.
This group of Venerables generally ranged in age from 70,000 to 150,000 years, already gradually entering the twilight period. Some Venerables who are good at “maintaining health” have already started to periodically go into slumber to increase their lifespan.
So, coincidentally, there are several candidates on the list who meet the requirements.
Thinking this way, Fang Ze also carefully looked over the intelligence on these few “candidates.”
There are a total of five Venerables who meet the requirements: Venerable Shen Yuan, Venerable Mystic Leopard, Venerable Ya Wen, Venerable Yin Xing, and Venerable Feng Rao. They are all powerful Venerables who “rule over territories as kings” in Heaven Beyond the Heavens.
Among them, Venerable Shen Yuan and Venerable Feng Rao should be the oldest, so old that hardly anyone in the current Heaven Beyond the Heavens knows their age, which is why their slumber time is also the longest, having been asleep for 120 to 150 years now.
Next is Venerable Ya Wen, he should be a Venerable from the same era as the Blood Crocodile Venerable, with whom he is barely two Reincarnation Worlds apart. It’s just that because he wasn’t as reckless as the Blood Crocodile Venerable, he has lived fairly well.
Finally, there is Venerable Mystic Leopard and Venerable Yin Xing, these two are Venerables from around the same era as the Blue Blood Venerable. They just predated him a bit, so they were fortunate to participate in that Domain warfare.
And among these five, the most secure defenses belong to Venerable Yin Xing and Venerable Feng Rao. One is rather cautious, setting up at least seven layers of defenses in their slumbering palace; the other is one of the nine Venerables in the largest “Nine Dragons District” of Heaven Beyond the Heavens, guarded by eight major Venerables. If handled improperly, it might cause a huge mess.
Therefore, after much consideration, Fang Ze decided to first target the other three Venerables, and then based on the situation with those three, decide whether to go after the other two.
Thinking this way, having made up his mind, after a short rest, Fang Ze finally left the Late-Night Investigation Room.
After enduring this particularly long night, for the next half month, Fang Ze spent almost all of his time infiltrating, capturing, and subduing the Venerables.
It must be said, although the defenses of Venerable Ya Wen, Venerable Mystic Leopard, and Venerable Shen Yuan are weaker compared to the other two, they are still much stronger compared to the sieve-like defenses of the Blood Crocodile Venerable and Venerable Moon Rabbit.
Even with the Demigd Prison as such a powerful means of infiltration, Fang Ze spent more than five times the usual time.
Fortunately, the soul simulation and Faith borrowing of the Demigd Prison are incredibly powerful, even Venerable-level defenses appear as if made of paper in front of these two effects—as long as Fang Ze found a loophole, they would be immediately breached.
And after breaking through the layers of defenses and imprisoning these three slumbering Venerables in the Demigd Prison, Fang Ze spent the next half month interrogating and questioning them: mainly asking if they knew about the “Heavenly Mandate.”
Among these three Venerables, Venerable Mystic Leopard both verbally and internally denied ever hearing about it.
As for Venerable Ya Wen and Venerable Shen Yuan, although they verbally claimed not to know, inwardly, they both were aware.
Moreover, during this half month, Fang Ze continuously used the Late-Night Investigation Room to meticulously interrogate Venerable Yuan Gu. So, through the statements of these four Venerables, Fang Ze roughly “objectively” restored the whole event.
Back then, a group of young Venerables, who were unaware of the Heavenly Mandate, grew overly ambitious. Facing the Azure World of the Blue Blood Venerable, they wanted a quick “clearance,” so they gathered to put all their efforts into one decisive battle.
Unexpectedly, the natives of the Azure World grew more courageous with each battle, and as the Child of Destiny, the Blue Blood Venerable also grew stronger and stronger. After fighting for more than a decade, he actually relied on his own power and the Domain barrier to single-handedly keep dozens of Venerables outside the world barrier.
These young Venerables, stunned by the situation, had no choice but to seek help from the old monsters deep within the Outer Realm.
When the old monsters arrived at the battlefield, after carefully studying the intelligence, they criticized their battle plan and told them not to continue pressuring this world, otherwise, the situation would only worsen!
But… when the new Venerables inquired about the reason, the old monsters said nothing further, simply saying to leave everything to them.
Initially, these young Venerables were somewhat skeptical, but when the old monsters finally easily took down the Blue Blood Venerable and swept through the entire world, they were stunned.
Afterward, a few enterprising Venerables secretly held a banquet, inviting these old monsters to drink, and while getting them drunk, they seized the opportunity to probe them.
In the end, the old monsters let slip a few frightening words,
“Do you really think Domain warfare is a war between two worlds? Heh heh.”
“Let me tell you, we and those natives are merely predestined chess pieces. This heaven, deciding who wins, who loses, such outcomes can’t be altered by us.”