Chapter 426: The World Stone Conspiracy

In order to ensure that the fetus inside her body could recover from its injuries and be safely born, the Water Virtue Qilin decided to first use her own essence blood to heal the fetus and nurture it until birth before finding a way to return to the Divine Realm.

However, after nurturing the Water Qilin for ten thousand years, she never expected a group of people who had narrowly escaped with their lives to arrive in this world. A group of vicious pursuers with repulsive auras soon followed them. Those pursuers were none other than the Demon Abyss Clan.

Even after arriving in this world, the Demon Abyss Clan did not stop. They actually created a passage connecting this world to the Demon Abyss Realm. Afterward, members of the Demon Abyss Clan continuously poured through the passage and invaded this world.

What was even more unfortunate was that the entrance to the passage was located not far from the Water Virtue Qilin. At that time, the Water Virtue Qilin was on the verge of giving birth and did not want to cause any further disturbances, so she continued concealing her aura and ignored the invaders.

But the Demon Abyss Clan was inherently greedy. One of the higher-ranking demon abyss, possessing a special innate divine ability, accidentally detected the presence of the Water Virtue Qilin. He became filled with greed for the divine power, divine core, and flesh of a divine beast.

To obtain these things, he mobilized a large number of Demon Abyss Clan members to set a trap and lure the Water Virtue Qilin into it, making her already severe injuries even worse while she was still using her essence blood to nurture the Water Qilin.

After struggling to kill a large number of Demon Abyss Clan members, the remaining Demon Abyss Clan members fled. The Water Virtue Qilin then prematurely gave birth to a Water Qilin egg that was inherently deficient and could die at any time. Her own life was also nearing its end.

To allow the Water Qilin to be safely born and grow up healthy, the Water Virtue Qilin poured all her remaining vitality and the essence of her flesh and blood into the Water Qilin egg. She then used a divine technique to seal her own Qilin horn at the entrance of the passage.

This cut off the Demon Abyss Clan’s route of continued invasion, allowing the Heaven Origin Realm to survive and eventually develop into what it was today.

After explaining all this, Fu Young did not give everyone time to digest the information and continued, "As for those remnants of the Demon Abyss Clan that had been crippled by the Water Virtue Qilin, they mixed into the ranks of the demonic cultivators who had fled here and escaped together to the region farthest from the Great Forest of Ancient Demon. There, they survived, multiplied, established sects, and eventually formed the region that is now known as Infernal Sky Continent."

"What? Those bastard from Infernal Sky Continent are actually descendants of the Demon Abyss Clan? Could it be that they opened the passage themselves, then infiltrated the human cultivators and took the opportunity to use demonic objects to contaminate the defensive core and spiritual veins?" the hot-tempered Divine Armament Sect Master said furiously.

Lu Wuchen nodded. "If there truly is such a connection, then this possibility is very high. After all, throughout this long period of time, our Dao cultivators and demonic cultivators have fought many Dao-Demon Wars. Every time, our side managed only a hard-won victory. If the demonic cultivators were to collude with the Demon Abyss Clan in order to completely defeat us and seize the Heaven Origin Realm, that would not be surprising."

"But I feel that their goal is not limited to that. If they were merely trying to help their allies defeat the Dao cultivators of the Heaven Origin Realm, they would not have gone so far as to use demonic aura to corrupt all things, even polluting the spiritual veins and turning them into demonic veins. In my view, it seems more like they are gradually transforming the Heaven Origin Realm, a world suited to Dao cultivators, into a Demon Abyss Realm suitable for the Demon Abyss Clan."

Everyone was shocked upon hearing this, but after thinking it over, they all felt that Fu Young’s words made sense. They fell silent, their expressions turning solemn.

The Ninefold Elixir Palace Master looked at the demonic aura retreating farther and farther under the assault of the black flame. He murmured in a dazed voice, "If that is really the case, then what should we do?"

"If that is true, how exactly do these Demon Abyss Clan members intend to accomplish this goal?" the Azure Frost Sect Master asked, then fell into deep thought.

Fu Young’s eyes shifted. He glanced at his own master, who looked completely bewildered and out of the loop, while everyone else’s expressions had become increasingly grim. He was just about to speak when Gou Guangming, who had been silently observing from the side, suddenly recalled the beginning of the original story’s Against the World arc and the miserable state of the Heaven Origin Realm. He could not help saying, "If I were an infiltrator trying to help the Demon Abyss Clan occupy and transform this world, I would first contaminate the World Stone. Only after the World Stone was transformed into a Demon Realm Stone would there be any possibility of turning the Heaven Origin Realm into a Demon Abyss Realm."

The cultivators in the original story probably thought the same way. That was why they abandoned one territory after another as they were invaded by demonic aura and occupied by the Demon Abyss Clan, choosing instead to hold out in the Holy City.

They built the Holy City into a holy land for the upper-level Dao cultivators while turning a blind eye to the lower-level Dao cultivators, demon cultivators, and others who were suffering terribly outside.

Having already experienced countless betrayals while in a soul state, the resurrected protagonist, who had witnessed all kinds of ugliness, opened his eyes to see a world that was utterly rotten.

This further strengthened his original determination to destroy the world.