Chapter 1121: Chapter 1106: Going Home
"Leave!"
"Only by leaving this seemingly cage-like sky can our martial path be reborn! Only then can we again sense and comprehend the Heavenly Dao, and only then can we progress further on this path of martial arts!" Jinghai proclaimed resolutely.
"Leave?" Ye Zhen murmured in shock.
"Exactly, Fourth Brother, leaving is our only option. This is not a decision we made lightly; it’s the sole conclusion we’ve reached after centuries of painstaking exploration."
Then, the Great Saint of Jinghai, the Great Sage of Overturning Sea, and the Sea-Breaking Great Saint took turns explaining to Ye Zhen the discoveries from their centuries of exploration to prove the correctness of their conclusion, and this explanation lasted nearly two hours.
According to the Great Saint of Jinghai, the heritage of human martial artists primarily relies on texts and oral transmissions from generation to generation.
This method of inheritance is excellent and often preserves the best and most outstanding parts, while discarding a lot of dross in the process. However, it undeniably also loses much essence and even the history of the race during transmission.
But the Demon Race is different. The bloodline of the Demon Race contains the ancient inherited memories of the Demon Race, which are immediately obtained once the bloodline is activated or cultivation is achieved.
This bloodline inheritance forever carries the most ancient legacy, unless someday a Grand Demon reaches the level of an Ancestor Beast and can use great divine powers to alter this ancient legacy.
Compared to human martial artists, events from a thousand years ago are quite unclear, let alone those from ten thousand years ago. However, the inheritance of the Demon Race is very clear.
In the legacy of the Great Sage of Jinghai and the others, ten thousand years ago, the place their ancestors lived was not called the True Profound Continent at all but the Primordial World.
Although the Primordial World was dominated by the Human Clan, the Demon Clan and the Demon Race also occupied their own territories, nearly dividing the world into three parts, unlike the current True Profound Continent where humans dominate everything.
The Outer Domain Dead Sea was better, but on the land, the Demon Race wasn’t even visible.
In their inherited memories, the Primordial World was boundless, not to mention the seas, even the land was vast and limitless.
In their inherited memories, many of their ancestors had reached the Divine Communication Realm, only after entering the Dao could they communicate divinely.
And those in the Divine Communication Realm who flew incessantly for hundreds of years still couldn’t reach the end of the continent.
Apart from that, their ancestors’ living places were a thousand kinds of different from the True Profound Continent they currently inhabited.
Among these, the Great Saint of Jinghai mentioned to Ye Zhen a force that surprised him— the Devil God Palace.
The Sky Wing Three Saints had communicated with the ancestor of the Devil God Palace, and according to them, the real form of the ancestor of the Devil God Palace was merely a Snake Demon with one percent Flying Snake bloodline.
But even one percent Flying Snake bloodline was infinitely more noble than the bloodlines of the Sky Wing Three Saints, normally, the inherited memories of that ancestor of the Devil God Palace should be far more ancient and extensive than theirs.
Thus, the three of them went to seek out the ancestor of the Devil God Palace for a conversation.
After their exchange, they not only became more certain about this hypothesis but also obtained some clues on how to leave this continent.
The elder of the Devil God Palace knew two methods to leave this continent.
The first, according to the ancestor of the Devil God Palace, is that the Primordial World is exceedingly vast; communicative migrations within even a single faction span several years.
Thus, an ancient formation master created large teleportation arrays and set them in various places to facilitate the migration of True Spirits from the four directions; these teleportation arrays are called Ancient Teleportation Formations.
As long as there are enough Spirit Crystals, relocating tens of thousands of people at once is no problem.
Based on these Ancient Teleportation Formations, array masters from all sides also developed a variety of teleportation arrays of various sizes for use; unfortunately, among those passed down on the True Profound Continent, there are only portable micro teleportation arrays.
These micro teleportation arrays can only teleport limited-sized items over certain distances, with nothing of the smaller, medium, larger, or even the ancient scale surviving.
However, in the inherited memories of the Devil God Palace’s ancestor with the Flying Snake bloodline, there exists one Ancient Teleportation Formation made by that ancient master, set firm in various places, and one is on the True Profound Continent.
But unknown reasons for radical changes in the landscape of the True Profound Continent prevent knowing its exact location.
Compared to the first method, the second method for leaving this continent is even more elusive.
It’s said some ancient treasures have the capability to break the void and seek the origin, and, by chance, one might be able to leave the True Profound Continent using them to find the so-called Primordial World.
The second method, naturally, the Sky Wing Three Saints would not consider, so they began to traverse mountains and waters to find the Ancient Teleportation Formation existing on the True Profound Continent.
Unfortunately, in a century, they set foot in every corner of the True Profound Continent, including the sea floor, yet found no trace of the Ancient Teleportation Formation.
Instead of discovering the Ancient Teleportation Formation, they found a dilapidated Ancient Relic Mansion, rumored to be the relic of a Human Clan priest.
In this mansion, they discovered some clues.
The Ancient Teleportation Formation on the True Profound Continent was not the open-to-all ancient teleportation formation of the Primordial World but a strategic teleportation formation secretly built by the Human Clan.
It requires a Human Clan secret technique to locate and enter.
The Sky Wing Three Saints naturally did not know the Human Clan secret technique, but after extensive inquiries and several exchanges with the elder of the Devil God Palace, they found a method to substitute the Human Clan secret technique.
It is blood sacrifice.
Ye Zhen happened to encounter that sacrificial ritual, which was actually their second sacrificial ritual. The first one was held twelve years ago, but for some unknown reason, it failed.
Thus, there was a second sacrificial ritual.
However, the problem was that the momentum of the first sacrificial ritual caught the attention of all major powers of the Outer Domain Dead Sea, and for a time, rumors flew around prominently.
The most talked-about speculation was that the Sky Wing Three Saints had discovered an ancient legacy and were about to activate it.
This laid the groundwork for disaster in the second sacrificial ritual, leading to the scene where Ye Zhen encountered various Dao Entrance Realm experts who hurried over to disrupt and seize the harvest.
"Big Brother, are you saying that the Ancient Strange Space Secret Realm I entered is what you refer to as the Ancient Teleportation Formation?" After hearing so much, Ye Zhen finally understood a bit.
"That’s right!" The three Jinghai brothers nodded simultaneously.
Ye Zhen pondered for a moment. Come to think of it, Ye Zhen had never considered it before, but as Great Saint of Jinghai mentioned, within the Ancient Strange Space Secret Realm, particularly the enormous space beyond the Spiritual Power Barrier, the various Mysterious Patterns engraved on the ground are very likely to be an Ancient Teleportation Formation.
However, Ye Zhen didn’t understand why there were tens of thousands of corpses of various races in the passage leading to the Ancient Teleportation Formation.
This was what Ye Zhen couldn’t figure out.
"Originally, seeing the altar destroyed, we thought there was no hope in this life, but unexpectedly the Fourth Brother came out alive!" said Sea-Breaking Great Saint.
"Big Brother, in that case, I might as well give you the location of the exit of that Ancient Strange Space, which is also the position of another entrance!" Ye Zhen hesitated and then said.
Previously, Ye Zhen had been holding onto this position, intending to use it as leverage against the Sky Wing Three Saints, but Ye Zhen had also not expected that the Sky Wing Three Saints would treat him like a brother at all costs, making the four of them become true brothers.
In such a situation, there was no point in holding onto this crucial piece of information any longer.
Unexpectedly, the three Great Saints of Jinghai shook their heads in unison like rattles, rejecting the offer.
"Fourth Brother, it’s better if you keep this location in your hands. If you give it to us, I’m afraid we three won’t be able to resist going to explore or even entering, and if that happens, it would ruin the big picture."
Here, Great Saint of Jinghai’s expression turned solemn, "From now on, we need to fully prepare for this matter. We must gather a huge amount of Spirit Crystals to activate the Ancient Teleportation Formation. Also, we need to start fully preparing for and finding a way to deal with the Innate Bone-attached Phosphorus Fire Spirit.
Moreover, if we are to leave, we must also take into account the bloodline descendants on Heavenly Wing Island and make various preparations.
Once everything is ready, we will have the Fourth Brother lead us to that Ancient Strange Space Secret Realm to see if we can find the true path of seeking truth."
Hearing this, Ye Zhen just chuckled bitterly, "No, Big Brother, my intention is to give you this position first!
You know, I am now a mortal enemy with Stars Tower, and because of the Black Dragon Legacy, Dragon Alliance wants to kill me too. If anything happens to me, wouldn’t the hundreds of years of hard pursuit by you three brothers be in vain?"
Sea-Breaking Great Saint waved his hand bravely, "Fourth Brother, rest assured, just stay on Heavenly Wing Island and cultivate. In the current situation, no matter how many people Dragon Alliance and Stars Tower send, we will destroy them all."
"No, Second Brother, I’m afraid I won’t stay long on Heavenly Wing Island. I plan to leave in, at most, three days," Ye Zhen said.
"Why would the good Fourth Brother want to leave Heavenly Wing Island?
Fourth Brother, you are now at the Seventh Stage Late Stage of Vein Forging Realm, with a Grand Treasure Mansion Opening Pill in hand. Breaking through to Establishment in a year should be no issue, and it’s precisely the time for your cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds. Why leave instead of taking the opportunity to cultivate in seclusion and enhance your strength?" asked Sea-Breaking Great Saint.
Ye Zhen pondered for a while and spoke, "Three Brothers, that day, Stars Tower’s Tower Chief Kui Otu forced me using the lives of hundreds of millions of civilians on the island, as well as your lives and the lives of your bloodline descendants, haven’t you seen it?"
"Indeed, I didn’t expect this Otu’s actions to be so underhanded!" exclaimed Sea-Breaking Great Saint, filled with anger.
"That’s exactly my worry. The place I come from, the Black Dragon Domain, has family, brothers, and sect seniors, although they too are warriors.
However, Black Dragon Domain is quite impoverished, Spiritual Power is scarce, and all cultivations are quite mediocre. And Stars Tower has highly informative people. I suspect they already know everything about me, and their actions are unscrupulous. I’m worried that once they—."
At this point, a deep concern appeared in Ye Zhen’s eyes, something he suddenly realized in the past few days.
Moreover, previously, Green Sun Palace’s Palace Master, Chuh Yang, had something to warn, noting that someone is plotting against Ye Zhen and Black Dragon Domain affairs, forcing Ye Zhen to worry.
Hearing this, the three brothers of Jinghai inhaled sharply, "Would Stars Tower dare do such a thing? When it comes to relatives, Stars Tower has thousands upon thousands more than you, brother. Aren’t they afraid of our crazy revenge?"
"With such things, it’s not about fearing the worst, but rather fearing that possibility at all! Besides, if Stars Tower really wanted to do such things, would they leave any evidence?" Great Saint of Jinghai said.
"Indeed, it’s something I cannot gamble on. If Stars Tower really acts, my senior sister alone wouldn’t be able to hold them off, so I must return to Black Dragon Domain once," Ye Zhen said firmly, "With so many mountains and rivers between, there’s no guarantee nothing unexpected might happen, so the location of this Ancient Strange Space Secret Realm I still—."
"Fourth Brother, do not speak of this again!" Great Saint of Jinghai abruptly interrupted Ye Zhen’s words, "Fourth Brother, remember, you are the hope of your three brothers’ path in martial arts, so no matter what, you must come back alive.
If—if you indeed meet with misfortune, then your three brothers will use all their life’s power, even if it means destroying Stars Tower and Dragon Alliance, to avenge you!"
"Big Brother..."
Ye Zhen wanted to say something, but was stopped by Great Saint of Jinghai, "Fourth Brother, you are pressed for time, so stop talking nonsense, go and prepare. Whatever you need to take back, be it Cultivation Technique manual, array formation, spirit crystal, pill, heavenly materials and earthly treasures, just speak up."
Ye Zhen wanted to say something else, but looking at the determined expressions of his three brothers, he could only nod in agreement.
Indeed, he really had a lot to do in these three days!