283: Chapter 44: Where Are the Gods 283: Chapter 44: Where Are the Gods “You came here in search of creation?”
The elderly person sitting in the chair spoke with profound meaning.
Perhaps because she had lived too long, her eyes were murky and her entire presence emitted a deep twilight aura, looking as though she might “die” at any moment.
Xie Xuanyi nodded.
The elderly person asked with a smile, “If I hadn’t stopped you from comprehending the ancient texts…
would you have gone already?”
Xie Xuanyi said, “Does senior hope that I do not go?”
“Even if there is creation, one must still have life to seize it.”
The elderly person sighed, “Mu Niu must have told you about the situation in the city…
to depart so rashly, you could easily die on the way.”
“Are you a human or a demon in the end?”
Xie Xuanyi couldn’t help but ask.
He had studied ancient texts for several days, yet they conversed in the language of the Human Race.
“Years ago, there were several kinds of writing in the world…
the so-called ‘human speech’ you just mentioned is merely one of them.”
Shan Man said with a smile, “Moreover, does it still matter here whether one is a human or a demon?
The old man shook his head, his face filled with self-mockery, and said meaningfully, “The beings that survive in this ancient kingdom…
no longer care about what ‘humans’ or ‘demons’ are.
Before long, you will realize that here, beings are only distinguished by ‘living’ and ‘dead’.”
Xie Xuanyi’s heart grew cold.
“What once happened to the Great Yue Kingdom?”
“You come from outside.”
Shan Man, the elderly person, said perplexed, “Considering what happened to the Great Yue Kingdom, you should know better than anyone else…”
Xie Xuanyi shook his head earnestly, “Senior, at least a thousand years have passed since the demise of the Great Yue Kingdom.
Outside…
no one knows of this ancient kingdom’s existence anymore.”
“A thousand years…
Is it really so?”
The complexity of emotions reached a peak in the elderly person sitting in the chair.
So many years had passed.
She knew nothing of the outside world.
The elderly person fell silent for a moment, then slowly raised her hand—this dilapidated wooden hut was stacked with many ancient books.
Whirring.
The sound of flipping pages arose.
Another ancient book flew into Xie Xuanyi’s hands.
“This is?”
Xie Xuanyi received the ancient book, opened it, and found it was the history of the Great Yue Kingdom.
“Many years ago, my family served as historians within the Great Yue Kingdom.”
Shan Man smiled and said, “My father, my father’s father, were all recording the history of this kingdom…
Later, when the Great Yue Kingdom faced ‘annihilation,’ my family was destroyed, leaving only me, barely surviving here…
I was fortunate to retain a remnant soul, guarding this library.”
Xie Xuanyi’s expression turned complex.
Thus, the elderly person before him was actually a remnant soul formed into a Li Mei.
The reason he couldn’t perceive its spirit realm was that the ancient texts left by the Great Yue Kingdom had been read, practiced, and implemented by her over the long years.
This place was indeed a library.
The array patterns, elixirs, and methods of maintaining Primordial Energy in Tiesuo Alley all came from these ancient books in the library.
“I know, these past few days, you asked around Tiesuo Alley.”
Shan Man said, “Regarding the ‘Great Yue Kingdom,’ Mu Niu and the others have little memory…”
“Why?”
“Even if I can retain some Primordial Energy as nourishment for the alley…”
Shan Man gave a bitter smile, “but in such a harsh environment, how long can these Li Mei survive?”
Xie Xuanyi fell into silence.
Indeed.
The living conditions in Tiesuo Alley were too poor; once these Li Mei were discovered by the iron cavalry, it spelled death.
“The entire Great Yue Kingdom is sealed off by Black Evil, filled with deep resentment.”
Shan Man softly spoke, “The unresolved resentment forms the Li Mei.
You’ve already seen…
this ancient kingdom has gone into Silent Annihilation.
The iron cavalry, driven by the national defense array, form and maintain an already non-existent order, while we wander eternally as the ghostly spirits of a dead nation, in this hell with no exit.
Xie Xuanyi asked, “How long can you live?”
“The short-lived ones…
three years, five years.”
“The long-lived ones…”
Shan Man smiled, “Perhaps I am a ‘long-lived one’?
I’ve stayed in Tiesuo Alley for a full one hundred years.
Over these long years, I’ve guided many ghostly spirits here, watching them from bewilderment to awakening spirit, eventually aging, withering, and dying.”
These people, like living in the shadows.
The long-silenced Great Yue Kingdom, due to deep resentment, continuously squeezes out superfluous remnants.
Among them, the “lucky ones” awaken their Spirit Wisdom and become Li Mei.
Then.
They begin this short and painful life.
Even a Yang God might not live to a thousand years.
Let alone Li Mei?
In terms of life stages.
Li Mei, spirits, before fully morphing into human form and completely cultivating a Grotto Heaven, are at the lowest tier.
The words ‘longevity’ have no connection with them.
Like morning dew, like spring cicadas.
In the blink of an eye, they turn to dust.
“You’ve lived in the Great Yue Kingdom for one hundred years?”
Xie Xuanyi looked incredulously at the elderly person before him.
“To be exact, one hundred and twenty-one years.”
Shan Man had a somewhat complex expression as she softly said, “I was lucky, I met that person.
‘It’ gave me this lengthy life.”
“Who?”
Xie Xuanyi’s gaze hardened.
“Please allow me to keep you in suspense, now is not the time to tell you.”
Shan Man revealed a sly smile, she changed the topic, asking, “Young man, you came to this place…
surely for the Secret Treasure of the Dragon Descendants, right?”
The Great Yue Kingdom had once erupted in war with the Great Demons of the Dragon Descendants.
The Great Yue Kingdom fell into Silent Annihilation.
Those Dragon Descendants must also have paid a terribly heavy price.
This place.
Must still hold remnants of the Dragon Descendants’ Secret Treasure.
“You really guessed wrong.”
Xie Xuanyi smiled and shook his head, he did not hide his intentions but outline an image using Divine Thought.
Indeed, many years ago.