Chapter 212 : Chapter 212
Chapter 212: The Eldritch Race!
【Although the woman before you was young and beautiful, she gave off a sense of weariness utterly unfitting for someone her age.】
【“I never expected that there would still be human cultivators at the Tribulation Realm out in the outside world. Which Hope Zone do you come from?”】
【After seeing you and Xuanyuan Tianji, the young woman directly asked where you had come from.】
【“Hope Zone?”】
【After hearing the woman’s words, you were somewhat at a loss.】
【From the expression on your face, the young woman seemed to realize something, and the look on her face changed at once.】
【The young woman looked at you in disbelief and asked whether you had come from the Lower Realm.】
【You nodded and did not deny it.】
【After receiving your confirmation, the expression on the young woman’s face became even more complicated.】
【The young woman told you that her name was Chen Shu.】
【Right afterward, Chen Shu brought you to the place where they lived.】
【There, you saw that there were roughly a thousand people, yet among those thousand, about nine hundred were ordinary mortals, accounting for ninety percent of the total.】
【Chen Shu led you to an unused thatched hut and told you that you could stay there for the time being.】
【At that point, unable to suppress the doubts in your heart any longer, you asked Chen Shu what exactly had happened in the Qingxuan Realm, and why the outside world was full of monsters.】
【Hearing that, Chen Shu’s eyes dimmed somewhat.】
【Immediately afterward, you saw Chen Shu let out a long sigh, then sit down and begin explaining things to you.】
【Chen Shu told you that beginning three thousand years ago, the Qingxuan Realm had been invaded by a race of monsters.】
【Chen Shu told you that these monsters did not cultivate by feeding on Spiritual Qi, but instead fed specifically on human flesh and blood.】
【“Bizarre Immortals...”】
【After hearing those words, you could not help but speak those two words aloud.】
【“What? Bizarre Immortals?”】
【When Chen Shu heard the two words you spoke, she froze slightly.】
【“What are Bizarre Immortals? Are they immortals?”】
【When Chen Shu asked, you began explaining the situation on your side to her.】
【You told Chen Shu that in the Canglan Realm, there existed the Bizarre Immortal Race, and that the Bizarre Immortal Race also fed on flesh and blood. Moreover, the humans of the Canglan Realm were raised in captivity by the Bizarre Immortal Race.】
【Right afterward, you told Chen Shu about the physical appearance of the Bizarre Immortal Race.】
【After hearing that, Chen Shu’s eyes widened involuntarily.】
【“Your Canglan Realm is actually the same?”】
【Chen Shu had originally thought that only the Qingxuan Realm had fallen into such a state. The people of the Qingxuan Realm had once considered leaving it and heading to other Immortal Worlds.】
【However, Chen Shu told you that the grand teleportation array of the Qingxuan Realm was controlled by the Eldritch Race, making it impossible for them to leave.】
【Chen Shu told you that over these past three thousand years, the number of human resistors in the Qingxuan Realm had dwindled more and more. At the very beginning, there had still been experts at the level of Immortal Lords, but now there was not even a single person at the Immortal Realm left among the humans.】
【As she spoke, you suddenly saw a man walk in and whisper something into Chen Shu’s ear, after which Chen Shu hurried away.】
【Before leaving, Chen Shu told you to cultivate here in peace for the time being, and said that after she finished what she needed to do, she would come back.】
【After Chen Shu left, both you and Xuanyuan Tianji wore somewhat unnatural expressions.】
【You had thought that after leaving the Canglan Realm, you would escape the sphere of control of the Bizarre Immortals and the Bizarre Insects.】
【But to your shock, after leaving the Canglan Realm and arriving in the Qingxuan Realm, you found that the situation here might not even be better than in the Canglan Realm.】
【The only difference might be that the monsters here in the Qingxuan Realm were called the Eldritch Race.】
【You asked Xuanyuan Tianji whether such monstrous races had existed in her era.】
【Xuanyuan Tianji looked at you with a grave expression and told you in a righteous tone that such monsters had never existed in her time—whether the Bizarre Insects, the Bizarre Immortals, or the Eldritch Race of the Qingxuan Realm.】
【After hearing that explanation, you quickly figured out a few things.】
【You told Xuanyuan Tianji that the Bizarre Insects, the Bizarre Immortals, and the Eldritch Race of the Qingxuan Realm could all be grouped under the name “Eldritch Race,” and that their origins most likely came from the same place.】
【You told Xuanyuan Tianji that according to what she had said, these races had not existed before she was sealed away, so the birth of these eldritch monsters must be connected to her sealing and to the matter the Human Emperor had gone to resolve.】
【After hearing those words from you, Xuanyuan Tianji immediately fixed you with a hard stare, then said something that made the hairs all over your body stand on end.】
【“Do you think... every Immortal World in the Great Thousand Worlds has become like the Canglan Realm and the Qingxuan Realm? That even the Weiyang Immortal Realm cannot escape this kind of invasion?”】
【The moment those words were spoken, your eyes widened, and your heart trembled violently.】
【As you recalled everything you had experienced over the years, you realized that Xuanyuan Tianji’s conjecture was all too possible.】
【Suddenly, you thought of Luo Yiyi. You thought of what Zi Li had once said to you.】
【Back in front of the Myriad Demon Secret Realm, Zi Li had told you that the reason she and Luo Yiyi had come to the Canglan Realm was because fallen ones had appeared within the Qingqiu Fox Clan.】
【At first, your view of those fallen ones had instinctively been that they were merely rebels trying to collude with outsiders and launch a coup for power.】
【However, after arriving in the Qingxuan Realm and hearing Chen Shu’s account, you completely overturned that line of thought.】
【You now felt that the Qingqiu Fox Clan itself had very likely already been infiltrated by the Eldritch Race, which had led to the fall of the Azure Emperor, forced Luo Yiyi into reincarnation, and driven Zi Li to the Canglan Realm in search of Luo Yiyi.】
【Suddenly, your expression changed drastically.】
【If your guess was true, then once Luo Yiyi returned to the Weiyang Immortal Realm and the Qingqiu Fox Clan, the only thing waiting for her would be death.】
【Several thousand years had already passed since Luo Yiyi left the Weiyang Immortal Realm. After so many years of development, the Eldritch Race had likely grown to an unimaginable extent. And with Luo Yiyi not yet having become an immortal, how could she possibly resist them?】
【At your side, Xuanyuan Tianji noticed the change in your expression and asked what had happened.】
【Afterward, you told Xuanyuan Tianji all of your thoughts without holding anything back.】
【“What you’re thinking... is very likely true!”】
【At that moment, Xuanyuan Tianji suddenly no longer wanted to return to the Weiyang Immortal Realm quite so much.】
【She felt that if her strength had not reached the level of an Immortal Lord, then returning to the Weiyang Immortal Realm would be nothing more than courting death.】
【“If the entire Great Thousand Worlds has already fallen, then no matter where we flee, the result will be the same.”】
【You told Xuanyuan Tianji that for now, the most important thing was to understand the situation in the Qingxuan Realm first. Without knowing anything, they must not act rashly.】
【Night fell!】
【You each began your own cultivation.】
【To be fair, although the situation in the Qingxuan Realm was dreadful, the Immortal Qi was still abundant, so when you cultivated, you did not need to worry at all about the influence of the Bizarre Insects.】
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