Chapter 230: The Insane Ancestor
“Hero after hero sacrificed themselves. Some died directly on Monkey Mountain, some managed to return alive but fell into madness, and without exception, all ended up committing suicide. Until our ancestor personally went to Monkey Mountain. Unfortunately, he too returned in failure, and has been insane ever since. At least he didn’t end his own life like the others,” Chief Ming Guang’s eyes were visibly filled with melancholy. After all, the extinction of the Spirit Eye Clan might truly be not far off. Only one sacred tree remained, and the clan’s strongest ancestor had gone mad.
“I’ll take you to see him,” Chief Ming Guang continued to guide the blind snake forward, passing through the cemetery to arrive at a place piled with jumbled rocks. In the midst of the forest, this area clearly stood out as man-made.
A house made of piled stones, a yard of piled stones, and an elderly Spirit Eye Clan member with his limbs chained to stone pillars. Eight daggers were embedded in his shoulder blades, sealing his cultivation with a secret technique.
“Ancestor… Ancestor, I’ve come to see you again,” Chief Ming Guang looked at his clan’s ancestor with immense pain. Unfortunately, he was now insane, and if not restrained, the consequences would be unthinkable.
“The ancestor voluntarily sealed his own cultivation and agreed to be chained. He did this before completely losing his sanity. He knew that once he went mad, given his strength, he might cause great harm to the clan members. So he chose to harm himself instead, to be chained far from the clan territory, living like a stray dog,” Ming Guang became more emotional as he spoke, tears welling up in his single eye.
Zhanyue and Yunyao’s faces were filled with respect, but now that their most important lead had gone insane, their task seemed difficult to accomplish. The three jumped down from the giant snake and approached the Spirit Eye ancestor.
“Hehe,” the insane Spirit Eye ancestor giggled foolishly upon seeing the visitors, then shortly after began to cry. “I’m useless, I’m useless, I can’t do anything.”
After berating himself, the Spirit Eye ancestor ran up to Yunyao. “How did you grow up to be so beautiful? Look at me, look at me, I’m so ugly, I’m so ugly, old and ugly, old and ugly.”
Then, he crawled on all fours to Zhanyue, comparing their heights. “See? Am I not useless? I’m so short, why am I so short? I’m useless.”