Chapter 220 : Chapter 220
Chapter 220: The Scheme of Heavenly Emperor City!
【After a period of investigation, you arrived at an answer that you found difficult to accept for a while.】
【There was one key condition for using your External Incarnation talent: only after the External Incarnation disappeared could it be used again.】
【And now, your External Incarnation had fused with your true body. In theory, that should have meant the External Incarnation had already disappeared, yet according to the talent’s own judgment, the External Incarnation had not disappeared at all.】
【You knew that if the External Incarnation had not disappeared, then you would be unable to use the External Incarnation again.】
【After reaching that conclusion, you felt somewhat helpless.】
【This was equivalent to losing the External Incarnation talent altogether.】
【After you broke through to the Second Tribulation Realm, Chen Shu told you that although the Hope Zone had been destroyed, the cultivation resources in the Hope Zone treasury were still there and had not been taken away by the people of Heavenly Emperor City.】
【The moment you heard that news, your eyes lit up.】
【When you had first arrived at the Hope Zone, Chen Shu had already given you some cultivation resources, and it was precisely those resources that had made your cultivation speed so fast.】
【At your side, after hearing the same news, Xuanyuan Tianji’s eyes also shone.】
【Over the next week, Chen Shu led the two of you in sorting through the entire Hope Zone and gathering together every resource that could still be found.】
【In the end, Chen Shu handed all the cultivation resources over to you for safekeeping.】
【Chen Shu’s decision surprised you greatly.】
【Strictly speaking, Chen Shu ought to have been the inheritor of this Hope Zone. She was the only one left behind.】
【But Chen Shu told you that your talent was the highest she had ever seen.】
【Chen Shu told you that she knew her own cultivation talent was limited. Rather than waste those cultivation resources, it would be better to let you grow stronger as quickly as possible.】
【After hearing those words, you also understood the current situation, so you accepted those cultivation resources without hesitation.】
【For the time that followed, you and Xuanyuan Tianji cultivated desperately. You gave nearly one-third of the cultivation resources to Xuanyuan Tianji, while of the remaining two-thirds, you also set aside a portion for Chen Shu.】
【You did not need all of those cultivation resources for the moment. If Chen Shu needed them in the future, you could give them to her then. And if she did not, you could always use them yourself later.】
【While you and Xuanyuan Tianji were in seclusion cultivating, Chen Shu spent her time cleaning up the ruins of the Hope Zone on her own.】
【The eleventh year!】
【When you briefly emerged from seclusion, you suddenly discovered that the appearance of the Hope Zone had undergone a tremendous change.】
【You went to find Chen Shu and asked whether anything had happened during your seclusion.】
【Chen Shu told you that aside from cultivating, she had also reorganized the Hope Zone. She did not like looking at it in the state of a wasteland of ruins.】
【When you looked into Chen Shu’s eyes, you could tell how deeply attached she was to the Hope Zone.】
【You did not know what to say, so you stepped forward and comforted her for a while.】
【After that, Chen Shu told you a piece of news.】
【“Heavenly Emperor City has publicly announced that they have already driven the Eldritch Race out of the Qingxuan Realm!”】
【“What? How is that possible!”】
【When you heard that, your first reaction was that Chen Shu was lying to you.】
【But once your eyes met Chen Shu’s, you could tell from her gaze that she was not lying.】
【“You’re serious?”】
【Chen Shu nodded.】
【Chen Shu told you that during the days while you were in seclusion, aside from repairing the Hope Zone and cultivating, she had also gone out from time to time to observe the situation in the outside world.】
【It was during one of those recent trips that she learned of this news.】
【Chen Shu told you that, in her judgment, Heavenly Emperor City and the Eldritch Race must have reached some kind of agreement, allowing the Eldritch Race to retreat behind the scenes.】
【Chen Shu told you that Heavenly Emperor City had already gathered together all the humans of the Qingxuan Realm in the center of the Qingxuan Immortal Domain and built an enormous Heavenly Emperor City.】
【Chen Shu told you that this Heavenly Emperor City was divided into an Upper City and a Lower City.】
【Chen Shu told you that the Lower City stood on the ground, while the Upper City was a gigantic island floating above it.】
【“The Lower City... the Upper City...”】
【“If I’m not mistaken, then the ones living in that Upper City should all be members of the Eldritch Race, right?”】
【After hearing that, you voiced your thoughts directly.】
【After hearing that, Chen Shu looked at you in surprise. She had not expected that even though you had been in seclusion the whole time, you would still understand that much from her description alone.】
【“You’re right!”】
【Right afterward, Chen Shu told you that most of the humans inside Heavenly Emperor City were cultivators below the Deity Transformation Realm.】
【Chen Shu told you that most cultivators above the Deity Transformation Realm had already been eaten by the Eldritch Race, because altering the memories of such people was inconvenient and far too likely to go wrong.】
【Chen Shu told you that the current belief among all the humans in Heavenly Emperor City was that all the top human experts of the Qingxuan Realm had joined the campaign to exterminate the Eldritch Race, and that at the cost of tremendous casualties, they had finally won peace for the Qingxuan Realm.】
【Chen Shu told you that Heavenly Emperor City had announced that only cultivators who reached the Tribulation Realm would qualify to ascend to the Upper City, break through to the Immortal Realm, and continue contributing to the struggle against the Eldritch Race.】
【“Heh, they really have calculated this well!”】
【After hearing that, you immediately understood what Heavenly Emperor City and the Eldritch Race were trying to do.】
【As someone who had ascended from the Canglan Realm, this whole scheme was all too familiar to you.】
【Was the Eldritch Race in the Canglan Realm not doing exactly the same thing—altering humanity’s understanding, so that only after people cultivated to the Tribulation Realm and went to the upper level would they discover the truth, but by then it would already be too late?】
【You knew that once those people entered the Upper City, they would become Blood Prey for the Eldritch Race.】
【And Heavenly Emperor City could then proclaim to the outside world that those people had sacrificed themselves in the war against the Eldritch Race for the future of the human race.】
【In that way, everything would appear completely reasonable. The humans in the Lower City would cultivate desperately, while the Eldritch Race in the Upper City would enjoy an endless supply of Blood Prey.】
【Although you now understood the situation facing the Qingxuan Realm, you had no intention whatsoever of helping them.】
【You had come to the Qingxuan Realm for only one purpose: to cultivate, then return to the Canglan Realm.】
【You looked at Chen Shu and told her not to overthink things. Right now, the only thing she could do was cultivate in peace.】
【You knew very well that if Chen Shu went out and exposed the truth, she would absolutely be branded part of the Demonic Path and denounced by everyone. You understood that from personal experience.】
【After telling Chen Shu that you were going back to continue cultivating, you hurried away.】
【After leaving, you went to Xuanyuan Tianji’s residence.】
【“What is it?”】
【The moment you stepped into Xuanyuan Tianji’s residence, she had already awakened from cultivation.】
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