Chapter 425: The Water Virtue Qilin’s Past

"But the aura of the Demon Abyss Clan is vastly different from that of human and demon cultivators, and there are also differences in their appearances. They are not skilled at refining magic treasures, demonic pills, magical artifacts, demonic talismans, or similar things that can alter their appearance and conceal their aura. Human cultivators’ pills, Dao artifacts, and talismans are like poison to them. Besides, the city gate formations are not something to joke about. The moment demonic aura, demonic beast aura, ghost aura, or anything similar appears, they immediately react. There is no way they could have infiltrated the city," the Divine Armament Sect Master said firmly.

Fu Young smiled faintly after hearing this. "I never said that the people who infiltrated the rear had to be from the Demon Abyss Clan."

"Could it be that you are saying some human cultivators betrayed our race and joined the Demon Abyss Clan, becoming spies and infiltrating our forces, which led to our repeated defeats?" Upon hearing this, Lu Wuchen immediately came over and asked Fu Young.

Fu Young nodded. Remembering what the Water Qilin had just told him through voice transmission, he glanced at the Water Qilin and said, "As far as I know, deep in the center of the Great Forest of Ancient Demon, there really is a passage leading to the Demon Abyss Realm. That passage was opened by the Demon Abyss Clan in pursuit of the Water Virtue Realm’s surviving descendants who had migrated to this world. However, just after they entered this world, they were discovered by a divine beast from this world that had just fought a powerful enemy and suffered severe injuries."

"What happened afterward?" Everyone was deeply shocked upon suddenly hearing such a secret. Because Fu Young had slowed his speech this time, even the Azure Frost Sect Master could not help asking aloud. He had read the sect’s secret records and knew that the founding ancestor and elders of the Azure Frost Sect had actually been the Azure Frost Sect Master and elders of the Water Virtue Realm, who had led the surviving disciples to migrate to the Heaven Origin Realm and establish their sect there. He had never expected that after occupying the Water Virtue Realm, the Demon Abyss Clan would still refuse to let those who had fled escape.

"Sigh!" Fu Young sighed before continuing. "The divine beast’s injuries were too severe, and it no longer had the strength to return to the Divine Realm. For the sake of an important person who would live in this world in the future, it endured worsening injuries and killed all of its pursuers. Then, at the cost of its own life, it used its hardest horn to create a sturdy seal and sealed the passage. Even though the seal has become somewhat loose by now, it will not break for at least another hundred years."

"Then did the Demon Abyss Clan see that the seal was weakening and destroy it from the other side of the passage?" Upon hearing this, Lu Wuchen immediately realized where the problem might lie.

Fu Young shook his head. "The power of a divine beast is beyond anything we can imagine. Its enormous and incomparably sturdy body is even stronger than a world membrane. A seal made from the hardest horn of its body simply cannot be destroyed through external force. Even if the seal gradually weakens over a long period of time, the Demon Abyss Clan cannot destroy it from the other side. The only ones capable of breaking this seal are cultivators from this world."

"But which cultivator from this world would do something so harmful to others and themselves? And what benefit would they gain from the Demon Abyss Clan’s invasion?" the Harmony Union Valley Master asked with a frown, his face filled with confusion.

Fu Young actually knew a little about this. In the original story his master had told him, there had been some vague information regarding Zhong Kui and the Water Qilin when the Demon Abyss Clan’s invasion began. Combined with the inheritance left behind by the Water Qilin’s mother, which the Water Qilin had just shared with him, the exceptionally intelligent Fu Young reorganized the information, discarded the unreliable parts, retained the essential details, and pieced together an account that was closest to the true history.

After the Harmony Union Valley Madter asked the question, Fu Young sought the Water Qilin’s opinion. Only then did he reveal the version of history closest to the truth.

It turned out that there had once been a pseudo-divine beast Water Qilin in this world. Its mother was a true divine beast, the Water Virtue Qilin.

Long ago, when the Water Virtue Qilin was pregnant and waiting to give birth in the Divine Realm, it was ambushed by a Divine Rhinoceros, a divine beast that particularly loved eating the young of other divine beasts.

The two divine beasts fought so fiercely that heaven and earth seemed to collapse. During the battle, the violent surge of divine power accidentally caused a section of space to collapse, sending both divine beasts falling into the Lower Realm. They landed beyond a certain void, where they fought another fierce battle.

After a massive battle in the void, the Water Virtue Qilin killed its opponent, but it had only achieved a hard-won victory.

Originally, if it could devour the divine core of the other divine beast, it could recover and return to the Divine Realm. However, after this small void endured the battle between the two divine beasts and the ensuing violent surge of divine power, it became extremely unstable.

The moment the battle ended, the corpse of its opponent was swept away by a void storm and disappeared without a trace. The Water Virtue Qilin desperately pursued it.

Fu Young only found traces of divine beast blood scattered in a small world, and that small world was precisely the Heaven Origin Realm. The Water Virtue Qilin wanted to continue tracking its opponent, but the battle had not only left it severely wounded, it had also injured the fetus inside its body. Furthermore, there was no divine power available for it to absorb and repair its various injuries.