Could it be that I am the cruel villain?
Chapter 403 - 253: The Proud Liu Xianzi and the Playful Bickering Couple - Part 2

Chapter 403: Chapter 253: The Proud Liu Xianzi and the Playful Bickering Couple - Part 2

She couldn’t even handle it anymore.

"The name ’Phoenix Heavenly Cave’ is not the original name of that part of the heavens and earth; it is a nickname we adopted for convenience. In the past, many relics from ancient times have been discovered, such as the ’Sunlit Heavenly Cavern’ 60 years ago, and the ’Lanling Heavenly Cave’ 120 years ago."

"These heavenly caves have a history of at least several thousand years. Although I wasn’t born at the time and didn’t have the chance to explore them, according to the elders in my family, these ancient sites usually contain many legacies, magic treasures, and even the density of spiritual energy is higher than in our current age."

"However, the Phoenix Heavenly Cave is different, this heavenly cave has likely existed for tens of thousands of years."

She raised her eyebrows.

To ordinary people, twenty years is basically a generation, but in the Cultivation World, it becomes an uncertain factor. Some people are wholeheartedly devoted to the Dao and may live for hundreds of years without having descendants, while others just slack off.

As soon as they make a little name for themselves, they eagerly escape into secular life to enjoy the treatment regarded as divine by others. However, even if generations pass very quickly, this so-called Phoenix Heavenly Cave has arguably lasted for a hundred generations.

Not even the history of Purple Cloud Palace spans ten thousand years. He held no doubts, because he had read many things within the Purple Cloud Palace; concerning this Phoenix Heavenly Cave and the Candle Dragon, there were no records at all, which was proof enough of many issues.

"This heavenly cave first appeared at least six hundred years ago, during one of the most chaotic periods in the Cultivation World, when various forces clashed. No one expected that the Candle Dragon, which only existed in legends, would appear at that time."

"The dragon ascended from the East Sea, startling countless cultivators into attacking it. Initially, the Candle Dragon paid no heed to the siege and just roared, soaring across the sky, until one of the great powers stepped forward, trying to stop this dragon."

"Amidst the flashes of swords and sabers, the Candle Dragon issued a painful roar, its power directly knocking down a great Human Emperor. However, at the same time, a wound was left on the dragon’s snout, at the corner of its mouth."

"Breathing laboriously, in anger, it opened its wide dragon mouth and sucked everything in its vicinity into its body. At that time, nearly the entire battlefield was devoured by this one gulp, plunging into darkness."

"Everyone thought they had unfortunately perished, but unexpectedly when they opened their eyes again, they found themselves in another world."

"This world had an abundance of cultivation resources, precious spirit stones and ores could be seen everywhere, many mythical demon beasts, divine beasts, unheard-of magic treasures, long-lost cultivation techniques, poison insects, and Gu worms, legacies..."

"Countless."

"There was everything inside, even encounters with the Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox and the Nine-headed Demon Serpent, such creatures were only historically recorded and unseen by anyone in the modern world, which gives an idea of how long this heavenly cave had been sealed, and the eerie thing was that it notably lacked members of the Human Clan."

"Inside the heavenly cave, one could not feel the passage of time; without sun or moon, the environment was oppressive and terrifying. Under these conditions, the disciples who entered the heavenly cave fought fiercely. Originally, they were from different forces, and in such a situation surrounded by gold, they went mad trying to plunder resources and legacies."

"The Candle dragon continued west, its breathing drawing countless beings into its body. The slip of wind from its lips turned into an entrance, where numerous people found opportunities, breaking through realms, their cultivation soaring, even obtaining ancient legacies."

"This is the story of the Phoenix Heavenly Cave."

A ludicrous story.

The first time he heard about it from his senior sister, it was somewhat unbelievable, thought to be just some transmitted tale, but what Cen Yueyue mentioned aligned largely with his senior sister’s story, even in greater detail.

Seeing Jiang Feng’s hesitancy to speak, the girl smoothed her temple hair; she knew that these stories, when spoken, held no convincing power and sounded like mere fantasies.

It was all praise with no flaws, and the more it seemed so, the more it indicated lurking dangers, almost like someone telling you about a job that offers tens of thousands monthly with twenty days of vacation each month, and then you turn around and ask where the company is.

"Oh, the company is in Europe. You need to catch a connecting flight to the north first."

But Cen Yueyue simply used one sentence to dispel Jiang Feng’s doubts.

"My second grandfather and fourth grandfather were participants and victims of that past turmoil."

Surely.

He vaguely guessed that someone from Cen Family Village must have really gone in to bring back so much useful information.

The young girl lazily yawned; she had traveled from the south all the way north, albeit on a slightly different route than Cen Zhuangzhuang, driven by basic needs and carnal desires, and having met her long-awaited beloved, her tense nerves gradually relaxed.

Noticing the girl starting to yawn, Jiang Feng, who never usually took the initiative, this time unexpectedly...

Took the initiative and approached her!

With a big hand, he embraced her.

Her soft body leaned over, her head resting on his shoulder; Cen Yueyue’s body stiffened momentarily, but she quickly adapted to the warmth.

Under the moonlight, the reflections of the two clung together, engrossed in their own world, completely unaware that an old man, with completely white hair and hunched back, leaning on a walking stick, left the scene indignantly.

Leaving with the old man was Liu Tangxi, whose face was cold as frost but whose lips curled with a slight proud smile.

"My junior brother really makes me proud, hmm!"

"Back then, the Southern Border was also vying for territories; many disciples headed north, and in what is now Long Country, they encountered the East Sea Clan and soon a fierce battle ensued."

"The Candle Dragon appeared, swallowing all its clan members and enemies, and since then, new faces appeared at regular intervals, some of them familiar, some from other races, and all eerily, all those absorbed were below the Divinity Transformation Stage."

"Almost everyone who survived within the Phoenix Heavenly Cave gained significant benefits; my second and fourth grandfathers weren’t especially outstanding among those clan members at that time, they were considered average."

"Most of the people fighting on the battlefield were Nascent Souls, Divinity Transformations, and Core Formations, with the largest number being Core Formation disciples, but logically, there should have been those in the Divinity Transformation Stage as well."

"So, the two grandfathers deduced that this Candle Dragon had a wound on its lips, probably because this tear, a narrow opening, could only accommodate cultivators below the Divinity Transformation Stage, and most other Heavenly Caves would be the same."

"To avoid damaging the contents inside, usually, the smaller the opening the better. This ’opening’ is not like the ordinary gaps in our daily life, but a completely sealed Grotto Heaven that requires Divine Sense to carve out such an opening."

"What really allows people to be accommodated is if their Divine Sense can squeeze through, not their physical bodies. If either is not met, they will be pushed out. According to what my second grandfather said, when the Candle Dragon appeared and absorbed them, it terrified many sect forces."

"Those were all promising seedlings of our clans, so they rushed to salvage the situation, but unexpectedly, facing the attack, the Candle Dragon remained unharmed. It makes sense, though, even the Human Emperor could only barely make a crack."

"How could others harm such an Ancient Divine Beast? Fortunately, the life signs of the souls of the clan members remained, and through this medium, they could sense that their realms were advancing, which was a stroke of luck amidst the misfortune."

"After returning, they brought back many inheritances, rare Cultivation Techniques, including the Dharma Seal I used before, as well as many Gu Worms and Poison Insects that had been missing for years, all found within the Heavenly Cave."

"Our Cen Family Village, in just over six hundred years, advanced from the tenth rank among the Twelve Villages of the Southern Border to the top three, and now even vaguely has the momentum to contend for the first rank, all because of this tremendous opportunity."

"According to my grandfathers, many people in the Phoenix Heavenly Cave survived, but only a very few from Cen Family Village eventually returned alive. There should be less than ten people from your Central Plains, and only a handful from our Southern Border as well."

"In Cen Family Village, only my second and fourth grandfathers came back. Do you know why?"

The young man fell silent.

He had a bold idea forming in his mind.

"Because... the talented ones broke through to the Divinity Transformation Stage inside, so they could never come out again, right?"

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