Chapter 944: Profound Lights of Five Colors Illuminates Heaven and Earth
“Frigid North Abyss, Starry Hazard Island, Shipwreck Gulf…”
Chu Wangsun, Su Bancheng, Chen Wuji and Chu Mingfeng all gasped when they heard this. These three locations were forbidden zones of death just like the Nether End Sea. Why on earth did their ancestors choose to leave the four armies at such a location, and how on earth did they even survive?
“Are you wondering why they would garrison the armies in such dangerous locations?”
Guo Ximian seemingly guessed their thoughts and said heavily, “Because these four locations are remote and difficult to navigate, because they need to remain hidden from the Strangers, and because… they are the burial place of the heroes of humanity.”
“Burial place?” The four young men looked confused.
“Nine hundred years ago, our ancestors were able to emerge victorious in the Four Seas War, suppress the Dragon Sovereign, and quelled the aquatic threat, but it came at a terrible price. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and heroes had died in the sea, so much so that the sea was blood red in color and covered in corpses. It was like hell on earth.”
Guo Ximian said gravely, “Far too many people had died in this war, and the large majority of them weren’t intact enough to be identified and brought back to their families. So, a titan of humanity gathered all their bodies with his immense power and put them to rest in four separate locations in the Four Seas. They are the Nether End Sea, Frigid North Abyss, Starry Hazard Island, and Shipwreck Gulf.”
“While these heroes were still alive, they had sacrificed themselves in defense of humanity. That was why the living could not bear to see their remains disturbed by Strangers or human scum. To ensure their eternal rest, the titans set up various restrictions and transformed the four locations into forbidden zones of death that few Strangers and even fewer living beings could enter, much less survive. Only the Nether End Army, Heaven Slaying Army, Earth Destroying Army, and Sea Pacifying Army were bestowed a duty and secret art that allowed them to pass through these forbidden zones unhindered.”
“From the moment the Nether End Army, Heaven Slaying Army, Earth Destroying Army, and Sea Pacifying Army were founded, our human ancestors dictated that these four armies existed outside of the four nations’ military and political system. They would never be resolved or reduced, and they weren’t to be mobilized without good reason. Specifically, they could only be mobilized to spy and tackle the Strangers of the four seas, and to defend the people from any threat coming from the four seas. Otherwise, the four armies were never to leave their posts. Their duty is to guard the four seas for eternity.”