Chapter 562: Ancient Murals, the Origin of Everything!

【In the 270th year of the King’s Calendar, mysterious black mist contaminated the land. Living beings who entered the mist lost their reason, gradually went mad, and attacked one another until they were all dead.】

【The King invented divine marks and taught them to the people. Divine marks were divided into three types: Heaven, Earth, and Human. People could choose one to learn based on their aptitude and gain the ability to protect themselves.】

【Cultivators could use the power within their bodies to fight the black mist, but over time, their strength would be completely depleted, leaving them to meet the same fate as ordinary people.】

【To save all living beings, just as the realm teetered on the brink of collapse, the King created The Martial Scripture and finally managed to eliminate the Pollution.】

【By then, the ecosystem had already suffered severe damage, countless living beings had gone extinct, and the land was no longer suitable for people to live on.】

【The King built the Great Void Passage, connecting Heaven and Earth, and led a million commoners across the sea of stars.】

【Before departing, he left indelible murals and inscriptions all over the world to warn future generations.】

【At the same time, the murals would point out the location of the Great Void Passage, so that future generations could meet their predecessors among the stars.】

【“Now that really is big news...”】

【Putting together the scenes depicted in the murals and the inscriptions carved on them, which people on Earth had deciphered.】

【It wasn’t hard for you to determine the following facts.】

【That so-called black mist was actually the Pollution.】

【At some unimaginably distant point in the past, humans had already lived on Earth. Back then, Earth still had Immortal Qi, and a cultivation civilization had developed.】

【Later, the Pollution appeared.】

【The leader known as the “King” invented divine marks, created The Martial Scripture, built the Great Void Passage, and led the surviving people into the cosmos!】

【“The King couldn’t suppress the Pollution at first, either. He only managed to do so after creating The Martial Scripture. This cultivation technique was the key to suppressing the Pollution...”】

【Could every Celestial Emperor throughout history have cultivated The Martial Scripture?】

【In your previous Simulation, you saw a record on the stone stele in the Emperor’s Tomb at Longevity Wood Village. A total of twenty-four Celestial Emperors had been born among the Human Race.】

【The first Celestial Emperor was known as the Ancestral Emperor. Could the records about him and the “King” in the mural before you be referring to the same person?】

【Back to the point.】

【The King, who was possibly the Ancestral Emperor, led the surviving members of Earth’s cultivation civilization into the cosmos.】

【Where did the people on Earth today come from?】

【Either they were descendants of those who hadn’t gone into space.】

【Or life on Earth had undergone another evolution, giving rise to humans all over again.】

【The King had existed across a span of geological ages. He could not have lived just a few thousand or tens of thousands of years ago.】

【The Great Void Passage mentioned in the murals was most likely a Channel.】

【In other words, the Channels now spread across the important regions of the Celestial River local galaxy, making interstellar travel seem almost within reach, were originally created by this “King” from Earth’s Ancient Era!】

【It was no wonder the Channels had been created by him, since they were made using divine marks, which the “King” had invented in the first place.】

【Although the murals clearly indicated where the Great Void Passage connected to Earth, you had just arrived on Earth from outer space and had seen the planet clearly.】

【There were no Channels around Earth. Either they had disappeared over time due to a lack of maintenance, or they had been destroyed by someone or something during the long course of history.】

【After spending some time in the Origin Cave, you made another discovery.】

【Spiritual Energy had not revived on Earth.】

【There was still no Immortal Qi here.】

【That was because Earth was also part of the Celestial River local galaxy, even if it was an extremely remote place near the galaxy’s outer edge.】

【It was still affected by the Holy Dragon Society, which controlled the distribution of Immortal Qi.】

【The Holy Dragon Society might not even know there were people here, so naturally it wouldn’t allocate Immortal Qi to this region.】

【Even if it knew people lived here, it would be even less inclined to allocate any once it discovered they were all members of the Human Race.】

【The reason Immortal Qi had appeared here and persisted for over a hundred years, allowing a group of people with Innate Talent to live lives of “cultivation in the city,”】

【was entirely because residual Immortal Qi remained in these Origin Regions.】

【Many countries had discovered the Origin Regions, but humans had been active on Earth for thousands upon thousands of years. The fact they had only found them now might be similar to the way the Celestial Empress’s cenotaph had been discovered at a specific time.】

【The Origin Regions’ self-protection had expired.】

【The “King” might have feared the Pollution would appear again, or that some other unforeseen disaster might damage the traces left behind by the people of his generation, who had once lived on this land.】

【So he had left measures in place to ensure that these murals, stone steles, magical artifacts, and other things would be preserved for as long as possible.】

【However impressive the King’s power might have been, it was impossible for him to stand against the River of Time.】

【When the time came, the seals naturally came undone.】

【The Origin Regions might have preserved a large amount of condensed Immortal Qi. Once released, it dispersed around the world, briefly making Earth seem as though it had Immortal Qi.】

【But this was no more than the final flicker of a cultivation civilization.】

【As long as the Holy Dragon Society retained control over Immortal Qi, cultivators on Earth would eventually disappear again.】

【You didn’t tell Perfected Jin Ding about this discovery. After all, people of his generation wouldn’t live to see the day Immortal Qi disappeared again.】

【“Perfected One, thank you for trusting me and telling me all of this.”】

【Seeing Perfected Jin Ding hesitate to speak, you smiled and said.】

【“Please, Perfected One, speak freely.”】

【“Actually, when you brought Little Chen over and mentioned ‘cultivators from Sakura Country,’ I knew who had attacked him.”】

【“Who?”】

【“The Kusagi Society of Sakura Country. Its president is known as Lord Orochi. Like me, he’s a cultivator at the Qi Transformation, Nine Rotations stage. In order to break through to Core Formation, he combined some unorthodox writings and cobbled together a heretical technique...”】

【Perfected Jin Ding told you that Lord Orochi was a gifted man in his own right. In Earth’s current environment, he had reached the Qi Transformation realm at a young age.】

【But he soon realized that breaking through to Core Formation in the current environment was impossible.】

【So he came up with a heretical technique. As he practiced it, he ended up turning himself into a half-human, half-snake monster.】

【After becoming a monster, he grew extremely bloodthirsty. The blood of ordinary people wouldn’t do; he needed the blood of cultivators.】

【And the way he drank blood was strange. He didn’t need to have someone killed and brought to him.】

【All he needed was one of his own extracted teeth. If that tooth was driven into a cultivator’s body, their blood would naturally be drained by him.】

【You looked at the snake fang in your hand.】

【“Well, that’s definitely sinister.”】

【“Lord Orochi must have some sort of secret arrangement with the government of Sakura Country. That’s why he doesn’t harm their cultivators and specifically attacks cultivators from other countries. He’s probably hoping to eliminate the cultivators of every other nation, so Sakura Country can dominate the world once more and invade it again.”】

【You laughed aloud.】

【At the Qi Transformation, Nine Rotations stage, he might indeed be invincible in the Void Realm. But in the Real Realm, he was nowhere near strong enough, especially with Earth’s highly advanced technological civilization.】