Chapter 831 - 523: Rise and Fall of the Human Race, Extraterritorial Beasts! (Double - )

Chapter 831: Chapter 523: Rise and Fall of the Human Race, Extraterritorial Beasts! (Double Chapter)

Emperor Yun looked at Hua Sichen beside him.

Hua Sichen subconsciously shook his head, indicating that he hadn’t heard any sound at that time.

"Only those two words?"

"Perhaps there were others, but I only heard those two." Song Changming replied.

"Are you suggesting that this voice was transmitted to you by the residual soul of Emperor Yuan?" Emperor Yun deciphered the implication in Song Changming’s words.

Or perhaps it was transmitted to everyone present, both humans and demons, but only Song Changming managed to hear those two words.

"Yes." Song Changming nodded, confirming his judgment.

As for where Emperor Yuan’s residual soul wanted him to go?

He had no idea, and he only felt that there were many mysteries that perplexed him.

He conveyed all of this to Emperor Yun, hoping that Emperor Yun could unravel these mysteries for him.

Compared to him, the reputable Emperor Yun surely knew many unknown secrets of the past.

After listening to what Song Changming had to say, Emperor Yun closed his eyes in contemplation.

After a long while, he reopened his eyes, his expression still solemn.

"Whether the Celestial Ruins Realm is the burial ground of Emperor Yuan is not yet certain, but that shadowy presence should indeed be the residual soul of Emperor Yuan!" Emperor Yun made his judgment and spoke.

Hua Sichen’s breathing became somewhat rapid upon hearing this.

Their bold speculation was ultimately just a guess, but now with Emperor Yun’s statement, it almost confirmed their hypothesis.

"I was so close to the legendary Emperor Yuan..." Hua Sichen murmured to himself.

"That Illusion Realm did indeed exist, but the ancient battlefield you witnessed was not one, but a scene formed by two catastrophes intertwined!"

Emperor Yun slowly stood up, speaking as he descended from his imperial throne.

Song Changming listened quietly, knowing that the secrets he longed for were about to be revealed.

Initially, Emperor Yun might not have intended to share these with him, but after some weighing, he decided to disclose some past events to Song Changming.

Song Changming realized the crux of these mysteries lay in the two catastrophes that Emperor Yun mentioned.

"One occurred in the Ancient Wilderness, and the other in the Ancient Era." Emperor Yun suddenly waved his sleeve, and several incenses exuding a yellow-violet aura were lit in the hall. Wisps of blue smoke rose and formed scrolls in the air.

The scrolls depicted mountains and seas, and with Emperor Yun’s words, they continuously transformed in a magical manner.

"During the Ancient Era, when heaven and earth first opened, the spirits nurtured by the vast energy of the world were immensely powerful, some possessing abilities comparable to gods, while the ancestors of the Human Race were born the latest, thus being the weakest.

It is unknown why the catastrophe appeared, only that when the mist descended, all that remained was the Nine Provinces...

As Emperor Yun spoke, Song Changming’s eyes fixated on the gathered blue smoke.

The smoke outlined the land of the Nine Provinces, and as Emperor Yun mentioned the mist, it surged from all directions, enveloping the Nine Provinces layer by layer.

This mist has persisted to this day, and even Song Changming knew it has never dissipated, so now all humans and demons, every creature of the Nine Provinces, have long been accustomed to its presence.

It seems as if the world was always meant to be this way, unaware of why the mist originally appeared.

As Emperor Yun said, during the Ancient Era, there wasn’t any mist initially!

"The mist brought catastrophe, and the root of that catastrophe was the Extraterritorial Beasts emerging from the mist!"

Song Changming looked again, and the smoke once more sketched out the forms of the Extraterritorial Beasts mentioned by Emperor Yun.

Their oval heads had two breathing fleshy lumps on top, eyes stretching from the face to the sides.

Below the eyes, there was no nose, only mouths filled with sharp teeth, a gaunt body, long limbs, and neck.

The smoke skillfully depicted their appearance, aligning perfectly with the monsters Song Changming had seen in the Illusion Realm.

Indeed, those were the Extraterritorial Beasts, the source of the ancient catastrophe!

Hua Sichen clearly recognized them as the mist monsters that appeared on the battlefield in the Illusion Realm, his expression shocked as he instinctively stepped back.

In that realm, he had personally experienced the formidable power of these Extraterritorial Beasts.

The dreadful and despairing sensation of facing this ominous presence was something he believed might haunt him forever, even after leaving the Illusion Realm, his mind was restless due to these Extraterritorial Beasts.

So much so that upon seeing the Extraterritorial Beasts again, he was almost triggered into a stress response.

What Hua Sichen wasn’t aware of was that in the Illusion Realm, the stronger one’s power and the sharper one’s perception, the more realistic the vision and the greater the sensory impact.

And it wasn’t just Hua Sichen who experienced this; Song Changming felt the same, his heart filled with trepidation, aversion, and rejection upon seeing the Extraterritorial Beasts again.

Yet his mental state was polished enough to remain composed.

"The appearance of the Extraterritorial Beasts led to the extinction of the Ancient Wilderness. Numerous mythical beings from that era vanished, and as for how the Extraterritorial Beasts disappeared thereafter, perhaps no one knows in the present..."

As Emperor Yun narrated, he gently waved his fingers through the drifting smoke, dispersing it.

"And with the end of the first catastrophe, the rise of humans began. A new order was established amidst the desolation, marking the transition from the Ancient Wilderness to the Ancient Era, and the second catastrophe erupted during the Ancient Era.

But this time, it wasn’t caused by the Extraterritorial Beasts, but by a dragon."

"A dragon?" Song Changming was momentarily stunned, instinctively blurting out, "Could it be a True Dragon?"

He had actually encountered numerous creatures from the Demon Race claiming to be dragons, but those were mostly descendants bearing some Dragon Blood, far from being True Dragons.