Novel Full Chapter 176 The Sky Has Changed
Beneath a sky full of stars, the observatory fell into silence.
Compared to the Director of the Astronomical Bureau, Real Man Qing Ye knew more details.
His disciple had personally witnessed everything in the Ancient Resentment Well, accompanying that mysterious Nameless one all the way through the well, experiencing everything.
Thinking of the terrible deeds mentioned by his disciple…
Under the starry sky, Real Man Qing Ye heaved a sigh and said,
“Perhaps it really is an Ancient God who has returned from the dead…”
That mysterious Nameless one was able to emerge unscathed from the wilderness where Evil Gods roamed, seeing through the titles and even the Divine Skills of the Evil Gods.
He even possessed a flying sword that killed with a single strike…
According to the disciple’s account, once that flying sword was unsheathed, even an Ancient Evil God would perish, possessing strength beyond the realm of the ordinary.
It seemed that under that flying sword, no matter one’s level of cultivation or strength, all would meet their death.
Such power was beyond imagination.
Never had it been heard that someone could instantly kill beings of the Evil Gods’ stature with a single strike…
Real Man Qing Ye conveyed everything that had happened in the Ancient Resentment Well to the elderly man before him.
Although the old Director had obtained a copy of the “Ancient Resentment Well Evil God Investigation Report,” he was still completely unaware of the events that had occurred beneath the well.
Real Man Qing Ye had come here to inform him of this matter.
Listening to Real Man Qing Ye’s account, the old Director’s originally smiling and composed expression gradually turned solemn.
His eyes became filled with shock and suspicion.
“He slaughtered twenty-nine Ancient Evil Gods in the Ancient Resentment Well?”
“All with a single sword strike?”
Such terrifying events were not included in the “Evil God Investigation Report”!
A mysterious individual of unknown origin who had returned from the Ancient Resentment Well in one piece and had uncovered the truth about many Evil Gods.
And a dreadful power that could slay twenty-nine Ancient Evil Gods with a single sword strike… The level of terror between the two was worlds apart!
If the person recounting this event were not Real Man Qing Ye, who had dominated an era and was invincible in his time, then even if it were his own late mentor, the old Director would not have believed it.
There couldn’t possibly be such a preposterous event in the world!
Even so, the old Director couldn’t help but seek confirmation.
“…Elder, are you telling the truth? Are you not deceiving me?”
The old Director frowned and looked at Real Man Qing Ye before him, questioning, “If this person indeed possesses the power to slay Evil Gods with a single sword strike, why did he go to such lengths to create this ‘Evil God Investigation Report’? Why not simply eliminate all the Evil Gods in the Ancient Resentment Well with one person and one sword?”
Real Man Qing Ye fell briefly silent, then spoke.
“That is the reason I have sought you out tonight.”
“Qing Xue explained in detail everything that occurred in the Ancient Resentment Well and also about her first encounter with this person in Loushan City.”
“This person’s flying sword had also demonstrated that same instantaneous killing power in Loushan City.”
“But at that time in Loushan City, all who fell to his sword were nameless, so Qing Xue did not take notice.”
“It was not until this venture into the Ancient Resentment Well that Qing Xue realized the power of that flying sword.”
“According to the description of my disciple, Qing Xue, the power of the concealed flying sword was ordinary; any Cultivator with even a slight mastery of the path could resist it.”
“In Loushan City, there were several instances where the person’s flying sword hit demonic cultivators of the Blood Demon Path, yet only caused minor injuries.”
“However, there were also occurrences where powerful demonic cultivators were mysteriously killed instantly upon being struck by this sword.”
“That flying sword seemed to have no lethal power in itself, yet it was endowed with a certain one-hit kill characteristic.”
“And when in Loushan City, this granted one-hit kill feature didn’t always work.”
“Even before the Ancient Resentment Well, Qing Xue said that when she and the mysterious Nameless were eliminating evil spirits in the Purple Immortal Stronghold, the flying sword’s one-hit kill characteristic often malfunctioned.”
“It wasn’t until the two entered the Ancient Resentment Well and faced those bizarre and powerful Ancient Evil Gods that the sometimes malfunctioning flying sword suddenly became capable of one-hit kills.”
“And only after slaying twenty-nine Ancient Evil Gods did the other party retreat with Qing Xue, taking shelter in a town.”
Real Immortal Qing Ye looked at the senior supervisor and said, “I boldly speculate that the strength of this person’s flying sword lies in that mysterious one-hit kill power.”
“And even he cannot make this mysterious one-hit kill power work all the time.”
“Thus, after killing twenty-nine Evil Gods, he chose to retreat.”
“Or perhaps by that time, he had exhausted the Divine Skill of one-hit kill.”
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“But what is clear is, this person’s background is extraordinary. He must possess some sort of grand dao principle to be able to one-hit kill regardless of the power level.”
“Perhaps, as you’ve speculated, he really is some divine being from the Ancient Era…”
Real Immortal Qing Ye looked at the senior supervisor and said, “These past few days, I have already faintly felt a change in the heavens and the earth, as if the age is about to change.”
“Perhaps there really are Ancient Immortals awakening within these gradually reviving heavens and earth…”
The words of Real Immortal Qing Ye caused the senior supervisor’s eyebrows to twitch slightly.
In the Dharma-Ending Age where the path to immortality had been severed, Real Immortal Qing Ye had lived for more than a thousand years. This invincible wielder of Great Divine Power had long stood at the pinnacle of this era.
His cultivation was not on par with that of a True Immortal of Ancient Times, but not because he was weak.
It was because the highest realm achievable in this broken world was now limited to the level currently held by Real Immortal Qing Ye.
Yet Real Immortal Qing Ye said the world was reviving…
The senior supervisor looked at Qing Ye in surprise and asked, “Has your cultivation broken through?!”
An increase in Real Immortal Qing Ye’s cultivation would mean the upper limit of this world had risen, signaling that the whole world was moving towards a revival of the Ancient Times.
For the beings of this world, this was dire news.
The senior supervisor asked with a grave expression, “Real Immortal Qing Ye, how much has your cultivation improved?”
If the improvement was minor, perhaps it wouldn’t be too worrisome…
But Real Immortal Qing Ye slowly said, “It has nearly reached the realm spoken of in legends, that of the Immortals.”
The eyes of the senior supervisor suddenly sharpened.
“Has the situation deteriorated to such an extent…”
The reason those Ancient Evil Gods from the Ancient Resentment Well could not descend upon the human world to wreak havoc was precisely because this broken world could not bear their divine presence.
However, if this world continues to revive, regaining the abundant spiritual energy and vast expanse of Ancient Times, the Ancient Evil Gods in the Ancient Resentment Well could return to the human realm.
And it’s not just the Evil Gods.
In the chaos and darkness of Ancient Times, countless gods and True Immortals used Great Divine Power to feign death and avoid disaster, waiting for the day of awakening.
All these powerhouses from the Ancient Era had been corrupted by evil spirits, and if they were to awaken in this era, regardless of whether they are good or evil, they would bring calamity to this world.
“Could this mysterious Nameless have come to warn us?!”
The senior supervisor immediately thought of this possibility.
Before the situation took a sudden turn for the worse, the mysterious individual Nameless suddenly appeared, bringing the long-hidden Ancient Resentment Well into the limelight and awakening the populace.
He even left behind a detailed corpus on the Evil Gods, seemingly afraid that if the Ancient Evil Gods from the Ancient Resentment Well returned to the human realm without the world’s awareness, it would be too late.
No matter how you look at it, this was a warning.