Chapter 199 The Unbelievable Truth

Izaks once said: The history recorded by short-lived races is untrustworthy, because their lives are short and they are easily trapped by their own emotions, so their records always suffer fatal deviations after several generations. Now it seems that this is true.

If it weren't for a witch's portrait that was preserved in another dimension and thus could not be tampered with, coupled with Vivian's unreliable memory finally kicking in a little, I'm afraid no one would have imagined that the witch legend that has been circulating in the Andrei family for three hundred years actually refers to this poor vampire: The truth of the matter was actually very simple. A poor vampire, by chance, met two humans, bankrupted them both, and felt deeply guilty. So, after she eliminated a wraith, she gave the spoils as a gift to those two people. One of the descendants is the current Andrei family.

As for how these descendants accumulated their current wealth, how they built a castle in this ominous land, and how they were entangled by the wraith for three hundred years, it may be difficult to find out—but the general process in between can still be guessed.

Vivian's seal must have gone wrong, and the "gift" she left to the Andrei ancestor must have been strange.

Vivian found a way to deal with the wraith from her memory and finally remembered why the wraith was bound to this world.

"This hall... wasn't originally like this," Vivian pointed around, "This was rebuilt by Andrei's descendants over a hundred years. They expanded the original crypt and reinforced this place with boulders. But I can still feel some aura remaining in the hall... It's the blood seal I left behind. Based on these auras, I should be able to find the location of the sealed place."

Hao Ren conveniently put Vivian's portrait into his personal space, then suddenly got up and pushed open the heavy door of the hall: "Time is of the essence."

The ancient, decaying hinges made a creaking sound, and the cold wind swept in from the outside, mixed with grayish-white snowflakes: The wraith seemed to be recovering quickly. The blizzard that was originally far away from this small mound has now gathered, and this blizzard is the strong malice of that spiritual entity. In the deep darkness outside, faint lights floated, and some ancient energies full of malice were watching intently.

Nangong Wuyue created a water mist shield to resist the increasingly strong blizzard, letting Vivian lead the way in front of the team. Vivian walked and recalled the past: "I remember defeating that wraith in a cave... There was a door in that cave, and the wraith entered the material world through that door. At that time, the wraith also created another dimension, but not on such a large scale as here. I think we are now in the original cave—Andrei's descendants must have built this castle on the original site of the seal."

Lily held up her claw blades to illuminate the surroundings, looking at the vast, boundless dark snowfield: "... I don't think this is a cave."

"Speaking of which, your memory is really hopeless," Nangong Wuyue, surrounded by strands of water, joked with Vivian while separating the surrounding wind and snow, "Three hundred years ago isn't too long ago, right?"

"The main thing is that I didn't associate it with this place all of a sudden," Vivian said a little embarrassedly, "This place has changed too much, and the Andrei I knew back then was just an unlucky wool merchant. The seal I left was just a large rock deep underground—who would have known that three hundred years later, this place would have developed into a large family and an ancient castle? Three hundred years... Man-made things change too quickly."

Hao Ren said that he could accept this statement, because he still couldn't remember the name of his elementary school homeroom teacher, which proves that people easily forget things they don't care about.

And more importantly, it was difficult for Vivian to associate a wealthy family with herself: As early as the era when Cleopatra was ganged up on by the Romans, she had already given up hope of being associated with any rich person...

Bai Huo had been curiously looking at Vivian. This strange demon hunter's performance among the various paranormal beings was very different from other demon hunters. She was not only calm and composed, but also did not hide her interest in this group of people. Vivian certainly noticed the other person's gaze: "What are you looking at me for?"

"You are very... unusual, different from what I imagined," Bai Huo said frankly, "Also different from what I saw in the books. Many elders among the demon hunters are very wary of you. They are even a little in awe. They call you an ancient one and advise the younger generation not to conflict with you even if they encounter you. I thought you were a stubborn and eccentric guy, and also temperamental: That's what the young demon hunters guess when they mention you."

Lily burst out laughing, so Vivian naturally punched her.

"You are also different from the demon hunters I know," Vivian also looked at Bai Huo unscrupulously, and at the same time pointed to Nangong Sanba, "Of course, not including this one: The one next to her is a problem child. Let's not discuss her for now. The demon hunters I've seen are as stubborn as rocks, and they only have naked killing intent after seeing the paranormals, but you are very strange. I can feel that you had hostility at the beginning, but you never had killing intent, and even now... even the hostility has subsided."

Bai Huo nodded: "The mentor also said that about me, and he has always been working hard to cultivate my killing instinct towards the paranormals, but it doesn't seem to have much effect. The elders said that I should naturally have hostility the moment I see the paranormals, but I feel that this is very strange: Why should I have hostility towards a creature that I don't understand at all, or even haven't seen before?"

Speaking, Bai Huo blinked thoughtfully: "The mentor said that this mentality of mine is a disease. I used to think so too, but today is the first time I came out alone to contact the paranormals, and I found that you and us are not much different—you seem to have emotions too? Then there is no problem with my worldview."

"Aren't you talking nonsense," Hao Ren said dumbfounded, "Of course paranormals have emotions."

And Vivian was more surprised than anyone else. She looked at Bai Huo in disbelief: "You said you don't have a killing instinct when you see the paranormals?"

Bai Huo nodded, and Vivian immediately followed up with the question: "Are there any other demon hunters like you?!"

Bai Huo looked at Vivian warily: "What are you asking this for? Spying on information?"

It seems that although this strange demon hunter's attitude towards the paranormals is more moderate than other demon hunters, her hostility that has been instilled in her since childhood is still very real. However, Vivian had already gotten the answer from the other person's reaction, so she didn't continue to ask, but Hao Ren was confused: "What's wrong?"

"Still remember the innate hostility between normal vampires and werewolves?" Vivian said casually.

Hao Ren immediately remembered: Under normal circumstances, werewolves and vampires have an innate hostility. Even if they have never met each other, or even don't know the existence of the other's race in their worldview, they will have hostility the moment they meet. In fact, it's not just werewolves and vampires who have this hostility. When other paranormals meet, there is a high probability that they will have this almost racial instinctive hostility, and this phenomenon does not exist in the Dream Plane, so Hao Ren has always suspected that something happened after the paranormals came to Earth from the Dream Plane that caused them to have this strange heredity.

"As far as I know, the hostility between demon hunters and paranormals is a similar reaction," Vivian said in a low voice, "And the demon hunters' innate hostility towards the paranormals is even more serious, to the point of absolute killing intent. Basically, as long as they meet, without having to introduce each other's identities, as long as they perceive the other person's aura, they will burst out with killing intent."

"The innate hostility of the younger generation of werewolves and vampires has weakened for unknown reasons," Hao Ren reacted immediately, "The demon hunters also..."

"It must be a bloodline mutation that occurred after crossing from the Dream Plane to Earth, and both the demon hunters and the paranormals were affected," Vivian said very seriously, "I seem to have connected a lot of things... Now, this 'hostility' disturbance in the bloodlines of the paranormals and the demon hunters is weakening, but it seems that the situation of the demon hunters is more serious. Their descendants' physiques are also weakening along with it... except for Bai Huo, this child prodigy."

Bai Huo looked suspiciously at Vivian and Hao Ren, who were whispering to each other: "What are you muttering about? Conspiracy? If you want to fight, please say it directly. I'm in a hurry."

Hao Ren suddenly couldn't bear it: "How can you have such a calming name and speak so irritatingly!"

At this time, Becky was sharp-eyed. She suddenly saw something in the wind and snow ahead and interrupted Hao Ren: "Is that the seal?!"

Hao Ren and Bai Huo looked in the direction of Becky's gaze at the same time.

In the wind and snow, you can vaguely see a strangely shaped boulder ahead. A light purple light curtain is constantly expanding, contracting, and surging in the sky above the boulder.

The surrounding wind and snow suddenly began to intensify.