Chapter 135 : Chapter 135

Chapter 135: The Truth of the Canglan Realm (Dead Land)!

【At that moment, you also understood why those half-dead Tribulation Stage Bizarre Insects with dried-up Blood Qi still existed within the Holy Lands.】

【They were Bizarre Insects who could not ascend to the Immortal Realm, trapped alive in the Dead Land, with their lives already nearing the end.】

【But there was one thing you could not understand. Since ascension was clearly impossible, why was the Bizarre Insect Clan still so concerned about the cultivators in the Dead Land continuing to cultivate and ascend?】

【In your view, this was nothing more than a grand ascension scam.】

【Just as you were feeling puzzled, Xuanyuan Tianji offered a different perspective.】

【“No!”】

【“It’s not that ascension is completely impossible!”】

【Xuanyuan Tianji told you that the reason the Dead Land could not ascend was because the Heavenly Dao was incomplete and the Power of Laws was in chaos.】

【Based on what you had previously told her about the current state of the Dead Land, Xuanyuan Tianji came to a conclusion.】

【“If what you said is true, and the Heavenly Dao still exists in the Dead Land and is still resisting the Bizarre Insects, then once the Heavenly Dao is completely devoured, the situation may very well change.”】

【“How is that possible? The Heavenly Dao still hasn’t died?”】

【Yue Liuli looked at Xuanyuan Tianji in astonishment.】

【As soon as she said that, both you and Xuanyuan Tianji turned to look at Yue Liuli with puzzled expressions.】

【“Sigh!”】

【Yue Liuli told you that when the Bizarre Insect Clan was first discovered in the Canglan Realm, the major powers had immediately tried to exterminate them.】

【Later, humanity discovered that the Bizarre Insect Clan possessed extremely tenacious vitality and could very easily rise again after being suppressed.】

【In the end, humanity discovered that something had gone wrong with the Heavenly Dao of the Canglan Realm.】

【No one knew how the Bizarre Insect Clan had managed it, but they had contaminated the Heavenly Dao of the Canglan Realm, causing part of the immortal qi in the Canglan Realm to become tainted.】

【That contamination would allow some humans with unstable Dao Hearts to be possessed by the Bizarre Insects.】

【Yue Liuli told you that fortunately, humanity discovered this early enough and used a supreme Divine Power to sever the contaminated portion of the Heavenly Dao.】

【Yue Liuli told you that the severed Polluted Heavenly Dao was then cast into the Dead Land, where it was trapped by a powerful formation and meant to be gradually refined into spiritual qi and dissipate throughout the Dead Land.】

【After her words fell, you remained immersed in the truth Yue Liuli had just told you.】

【You had previously suspected that the Heavenly Dao in the Dead Land had been contaminated, but you had never expected the truth to be that the contaminated Heavenly Dao had been cast from the Canglan Realm into the Dead Land.】

【What shocked you even more was that the Heavenly Dao, which should have been refined away, had not been refined at all. Instead, it had resisted the Bizarre Insects the entire time and endured all the way until now.】

【At that moment, you also understood why so many Tribulation Stage mighty experts in the Holy Lands were forcibly prolonging their lives. They were waiting for a chance at ascension after the Heavenly Dao had been completely devoured.】

【At that point, the Heavenly Dao would no longer be the Heavenly Dao of all living things, but a Heavenly Dao belonging solely to the Bizarre Insect Clan.】

【The laws of the Dead Land might even be completely restored in the future, and the Dead Land would then become a brand-new Immortal Realm.】

【At that point, the Bizarre Insect Clan would not even need to ascend. They could simply continue cultivating directly within the Dead Land.】

【After you told Yue Liuli your thoughts, a grave expression appeared on her face.】

【She felt that what you said was not entirely impossible. If that day came, the Bizarre Insects would very likely continue invading other worlds.】

【But soon after, you saw a bitter expression appear on Yue Liuli’s face.】

【“Even if they can ascend, even if they can invade the Canglan Realm, so what?”】

【“There are no longer any humans left in the Canglan Realm for them to possess.”】

【After hearing that, both you and Xuanyuan Tianji frowned deeply.】

【You asked her what the current state of the Canglan Realm was like.】

【With a long sigh, Yue Liuli told you that the present state of the Canglan Realm was extremely dire.】

【Yue Liuli told you that ever since a portion of the Heavenly Dao of the Canglan Realm had been severed, the immortal qi within the Canglan Realm had been gradually dwindling.】

【It was already completely incapable of sustaining the cultivation of all humanity.】

【Yue Liuli told you that this was not even the most despairing part. The most despairing part was that a long time ago, the Canglan Realm had been invaded by the Bizarre Immortal Race.】

【“The Bizarre Immortal Race?”】

【You looked at Yue Liuli and curiously asked her what the Bizarre Immortal Race was, and why you had never heard of such a race before.】

【Yue Liuli explained that something unknown seemed to have changed within the Three Thousand Great Worlds. At some point, races that had once been normal began to undergo mysterious and inexplicable mutations.】

【All of these mutated races shared a common trait: they possessed incredibly tenacious life force, and they became bloodthirsty, erratic, and fond of invasion.】

【Yue Liuli told you that after the Bizarre Immortal Race mutated, they became a group of monsters covered in red hair, and those monsters fed on human flesh.】

【Yue Liuli told you that after the Bizarre Immortal Race invaded three thousand years ago, the number of humans in the Canglan Realm began to dwindle steadily, and all experts above the Immortal Realm were devoured as blood prey by the Bizarre Immortal Race.】

【“Sigh!”】

【“By now, even Mahayana experts are almost nowhere to be seen in the Canglan Realm.”】

【“Even if the Bizarre Insect Clan reaches the Canglan Realm, so what? Their fleshly bodies are still human. And as long as the body is human, the Bizarre Immortal Race will devour it.”】

【After hearing Yue Liuli describe the Bizarre Immortal Race, your body suddenly shuddered.】

【What Yue Liuli described was exactly the same as the Great Calamity of Heaven and Earth you had seen in the Dead Land.】

【When you had used the True Eye to look through the black hole, the scene you saw had been precisely one of those red-haired monsters gnawing on Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable.】

【You finally understood why the Great Calamity of Heaven and Earth would descend upon the Dead Land twenty years later.】

【It was entirely because the Canglan Realm no longer had better blood prey for them to consume, so the Bizarre Immortal Race had turned its gaze toward the Dead Land.】

【You guessed that it was not just the Dead Land. The other lower realms under the Canglan Realm had most likely already fallen victim to them long ago.】

【And the only reason the Dead Land had not suffered their attack until now was because its location was special. The Bizarre Immortal Race had needed to spend some effort before they could finally reach it.】

【“High Priestess!”】

【“High Priestess, the Chief asks that you bring the two people from earlier to the main hall to see him!”】

【Suddenly, a voice came from outside the wooden hut.】

【“Understood!”】

【Then Yue Liuli turned her gaze toward you.】

【“Come with me. The Chief of our tribe wants to see you.”】

【You looked at Xuanyuan Tianji, who nodded, and you decided to follow Yue Liuli and see this so-called Chief for yourselves.】

【And the reason you dared go see this Chief without fear was your own strength. Based on Yue Liuli’s description, with your current Great Perfection Integration Realm cultivation, you could go wherever you pleased among the Human Race of the Canglan Realm.】

【Very soon, Yue Liuli led you to a large hall.】

【Although Yue Liuli referred to it as a large hall, in your eyes it was merely a wooden hut slightly larger than the previous one.】

【“Come in!”】

【After entering the wooden hut, Yue Liuli bowed respectfully toward the Chief.】

【“Chief! I have brought them here!”】