Chapter 213 : Chapter 213
Chapter 213: The Past of the Qingxuan Realm!
【And so, after cultivating for a week, Chen Shu came to see you again.】
【The moment Chen Shu entered the room, she immediately began explaining that she had truly been too busy this past week, which was why she had only now come to see you.】
【Chen Shu told you that she had already informed the higher-ups of the Hope Zone about your situation, and they had all agreed to let you remain here.】
【After exchanging a few polite words with Chen Shu, you began asking her questions.】
【You asked Chen Shu what the current state of affairs in the Qingxuan Realm was like.】
【After hearing that, Chen Shu sat down and began speaking slowly.】
【Chen Shu told you that the Eldritch Race in the Qingxuan Realm was completely different from the Bizarre Immortal Race in your Canglan Realm.】
【Chen Shu told you that the Eldritch Race was even more bloodthirsty. They did not care whether a human’s cultivation was high or low. As long as it was a human, they would eat them.】
【Chen Shu told you that during these past three thousand years, in the first several hundred years, the senior mighty experts of the Qingxuan Realm had still fought back with all their strength.】
【She told you that one day, the Eldritch Race sent out an Immortal King-level expert, who directly killed all of the Qingxuan Realm’s top experts. From that moment onward, the Qingxuan Realm collapsed completely and the slaughter began.】
【Within ten years, around ninety percent of the humans in the Qingxuan Realm had already been eaten.】
【When you heard that, you asked Chen Shu that if things had truly reached that point, then there should not be any humans left in the Qingxuan Realm at all.】
【After hearing that, Chen Shu let out a helpless sigh.】
【Chen Shu told you that when the human race was on the verge of extinction, the Eldritch Race left the Qingxuan Realm. They were unwilling to waste time searching for the humans who had hidden themselves away.】
【Chen Shu told you that over the next two hundred years, the remaining humans of the Qingxuan Realm began multiplying, and the human population slowly started to recover.】
【Chen Shu told you that during that time, something horrifying happened.】
【“What happened?”】
【You could not help asking.】
【Chen Shu told you that later, some among the humans, whether through cultivation or by accidentally ingesting it, came into contact with a certain substance of the Eldritch Race. In the end, those people were contaminated and transformed into members of the Eldritch Race, after which they began devouring the human race once more.】
【Chen Shu told you that the Eldritch Race formed from contaminated humans understood the principle of taking things slowly. They no longer consumed Blood Prey without restraint, but instead began carrying out controlled slaughter.】
【Chen Shu told you that at the time, the Eldritch Race would stage elaborate performances in the Qingxuan Realm, using decades as a cycle to harvest the humans of the realm, then arrange for their own people to emerge as saviors and purge the Eldritch Race.】
【In the end, after driving away the Eldritch Race, the human race’s will to cultivate soared, and they began devoting themselves to cultivation with renewed determination.】
【And that situation was exactly what the Eldritch Race wanted. The higher the human race’s cultivation grew, the greater the benefit after devouring them.】
【Chen Shu told you that it was not until one thousand years ago, when a human genius cultivated to the Immortal Realm, that this deception was finally discovered.】
【Afterward, the human mighty experts began leading all remaining humans into these Secret Realms to hide from the Eldritch Race’s pursuit.】
【Chen Shu told you that to this day, the human population of the Qingxuan Realm had dwindled to a pitiful number, less than one hundred thousand in total, while the Eldritch Race would disguise themselves as humans to deceive the humans who ascended from below.】
【Hearing that, you asked Chen Shu whether the Lower Realms subordinate to the Qingxuan Realm had not also been brought under control.】
【“No! The Eldritch Race treats the Lower Realms as pigpens by default. The Lower Realms exist to provide them with a constant supply of Blood Prey. They will not touch the Lower Realms, and besides, the Lower Realms are too small for them to care about.”】
【After hearing that, you asked Chen Shu whether the Qingxuan Realm had any kind of curse that would allow the Eldritch Race to lock onto one’s location after a breakthrough.】
【After hearing that, Chen Shu looked at you with a puzzled expression.】
【“How could that be possible!”】
【“Only top-tier mighty experts can cast that kind of curse. At present, the strongest eldritch beings in the Qingxuan Realm are only at the Immortal Lord Realm.”】
【“Is that so...”】
【You suddenly thought of the monster you had encountered on the Endless Sea in the Canglan Realm of the Immortal World.】
【At that moment, you guessed that its realm might be above that of an Immortal Lord, perhaps even an Immortal King or Immortal Sovereign.】
【After regaining your focus, you asked Chen Shu that since there was no curse, why had they not chosen to bide their time, build up their strength, and launch a resistance once they broke through to the Immortal Lord Realm?】
【Hearing that, Chen Shu looked at you with a strange expression.】
【Suddenly, Xuanyuan Tianji beside you spoke up.】
【She said that after breaking through to the Immortal Realm, one’s cultivation speed would slow drastically, and that each major breakthrough would require certain special materials.】
【Xuanyuan Tianji told you that those spiritual herbs had certainly already been taken under the control of the Eldritch Race, which was why the humans’ cultivation had remained stuck at the Immortal Realm.】
【After hearing that, Chen Shu nodded, indicating that Xuanyuan Tianji was exactly right.】
【“Here, every so often, people go out to search for materials so they can break through to the Immortal Realm. However, most of those people never return, and have most likely been eaten by the Eldritch Race.”】
【Looking at the faces of Xuanyuan Tianji and Chen Shu, you knew that you had thought too simply about the matter of breaking through to the Immortal Realm.】
【You realized that after becoming an immortal, both cultivation and the method of breaking through would undergo great changes.】
【For now, you did not ask the two of them about such matters. Instead, you planned to ask Xuanyuan Tianji alone later.】
【When it came to cultivation, you knew that Xuanyuan Tianji definitely understood far more than Chen Shu did.】
【Before leaving, Chen Shu asked whether you wanted to join their Hope Zone.】
【Faced with a powerhouse at the Tribulation Stage like you, Chen Shu very much hoped that you would join them.】
【Chen Shu told you that although there were no longer any humans at the Immortal Realm in the Qingxuan Realm, there were still quite a few humans at the Tribulation Stage Heavenly Venerable Realm. They merely lacked an opportunity.】
【Hearing that, you could not help but ask,】
【“Isn’t it the case that after surviving the ninefold Heavenly Tribulation, one can directly break through to the Immortal Realm?”】
【Chen Shu told you that after surviving the ninefold tribulation, one had to fuse Immortal Essence into the body in order to truly break through to the Immortal Realm.】
【“Immortal Essence?”】
【Xuanyuan Tianji shook her head and told you that this Immortal Essence was not the same as the Immortal Source that had sealed her.】
【Xuanyuan Tianji told you that Immortal Essence was a kind of origin aura within Immortal Crystals, and that it was the key material for breaking through from mortal to immortal.】
【“Immortal Essence can expel the mortal impurities from the human body, temper the fleshly body and soul into an immortal foundation body, and bring one closer to the Power of Laws.”】
【“That’s right!”】
【Chen Shu told you that all Immortal Crystal veins had already been seized by the Eldritch Race. That group of eldritch beings had no need to worry about such things at all, because the way they cultivated and evolved was completely different from that of the human race.】
【Chen Shu told you that the Eldritch Race used Immortal Crystals as bait to lure humans into their traps.】
【Chen Shu told you that among the humans, there was no shortage of those who risked their lives to search for Immortal Crystals in order to break through to the Immortal Realm.】
“Immortal Crystals...”
Su Ming muttered to himself as he read this.
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