Lord Shenxiu
Chapter 338: The Secret (Vote for Monthly Pass)

Chapter 338: Chapter 338: The Secret (Vote for Monthly Pass)

"Born noble... Feathered Serpent Nobles!"

"We worship the fate of the tail-eating snake... because it is our father..."

"We established a great empire, ruling countless clans!"

"Until one day, fate told us that we would soon disappear from history..."

"Only the chosen eternal descendants could escape to the future..."

...

"Ahh!!!"

Zhong Shenxiu clutched his head, black bloody tears streaming from his eyes.

In the last gaze, he saw destruction and the eternal downfall!

He lay on the ground, gasping for a long time, before slowly standing up and rubbing his temples.

"Feathered Serpent Nobles... a bloodline race that has already perished?"

During the recent influx of information, he had communicated with many spirits.

For instance, the Feathered Serpent Nobles had once ruled the real world, establishing a prehistoric civilization that spanned continents and oceans.

But then, fate had given them a prophecy; their inevitable destruction was unavoidable.

Thus, those eternal descendants, likely the Feathered Serpent Nobles with ’perfect’ capabilities, made a decision to migrate deep into the Spirit Realm to evade this doomed fate!

Because here, time was completely unstable, possibly leading to either the past or the future.

They sought the future because, once there, they could bring about confusion in history.

Although the Feathered Serpent Empire had perished in secret histories, it had again existed in the future!

In this way, they could avert their doomed fate!

"But obviously... their plan had failed."

"The Feathered Serpent Nobles, under the shelter of the tail-eating snake, met such an end, clearly there was the hand of other great beings involved..."

Zhong Shenxiu deduced after a brief analysis.

Feeling the resonance within his bloodline, he pondered for a moment, and his spiritual power surged.

A depression formed on the ground, burying the mummified corpse.

He continued forward and saw the remains of a village with a very primitive style.

Houses made of various types of earth formed a sparse circle, at the center of which stood a black wooden post inscribed with numerous texts.

It was a language as twisted as snakes.

"But... surviving in the depths of the Spirit Realm is already quite remarkable, I fear that each of these migrants from the Feathered Serpent Empire were at least ’perfected beings’, and there were even ’longevity beings’ holding fort..."

Zhong Shenxiu saw one corpse after another.

They were of diverse shapes, fallen to the ground, as if the pain still coursed through their dry husks, nearly overflowing.

"Over a hundred corpses, dying instantly... To simultaneously kill over a hundred ’perfected beings’, perhaps not even ’longevity beings’ or ’Ascenders’ could do it, right?"

"Did some being intervene personally, the adversary of the tail-eating snake, was it Da Mo?"

Zhong Shenxiu speculated.

But then he immediately dismissed this conclusion.

Because he had seen Da Mo’s followers, and even the last world had ties with this entity.

And in this world, Da Mo symbolized ’fallen’.

If it had acted, this place would be saturated with corruption, even dead bodies would transform into malevolent spirits or even more terrible and evil beings.

Even after millions of years, it would not change.

And not like this scene that seemed dried by the winds, sealed in history’s decay.

"How could I possibly guess who else the tail-eating snake has a grudge against when I haven’t even fully recognized the twelve great beings of the origin?"

Zhong Shenxiu let out a wry smile and gave each of the Feathered Serpent Nobles their funerals.

"I had thought that, perhaps, by relying on my Bloodline Power, I could connect with some formidable force... Little did I realize that while such a force did exist, it was a dead one."

He searched around but didn’t find any historical records left behind.

The only existing text was on the wooden stake in the center of the village.

"I can’t understand this snake script at all!"

Shenxiu complained and then suddenly thought of something, closing his eyes.

The next moment, when he opened them again, his eyes had astonishingly changed to vertical pupils!

With the help of his Bloodline Power, the twisted snake script that he had not understood suddenly became somewhat comprehensible.

"This is a customary practice of the Feathered Serpent Nobles, the Record Stake! It’s somewhat similar to ancient knot records..."

"They would record their enemies, major events happening in their tribe, as well as significant phenomena in the Spirit Realm..."

Shenxiu caressed the thick stake and suddenly felt somewhat sentimental.

To live deep within the Spirit Realm was indeed no easy feat.

These nobles coming in and finding no paper had regressed back to a tribal era; it was quite the pitfall.

Of course, don’t ask him why they had a wooden stake but couldn’t make paper.

The rules within the Spirit Realm just happen to be that screwed up.

Shenxiu carefully continued to read, and although it was somewhat challenging, most of it concerned the daily life of a tribe with around a hundred members.

From this, it could be seen that they paid a heavy price to survive in the depths of the Spirit Realm.

Often only every few months would they be able to hunt a prey called the ’Bloodthirsty Beast’.

This Spirit Realm Creature was very powerful, almost the size of Xiao Shan, and once posed a significant obstacle to the Feathered Serpent Nobles in establishing their village.

But everything was improving for the better.

Suddenly, things changed again.

These Feathered Serpent Nobles found themselves afflicted with a ’curse’ – a curse of time!

They aged rapidly, even losing their reproductive abilities.

Through worshipping fate, they learned that it was the curse of the ’Evil God’.

The record stopped there, and Shenxiu fell into deep contemplation.

...

"A curse of time, huh... The way those Feathered Serpent Nobles died, all skin and bones, as if in an instant their flesh was drained, becoming extremely aged..."

"Is the Evil God the one who killed them?!"

"These Feathered Serpent Nobles, under the protection of a great existence, yet couldn’t resist the combined efforts of Da Mo and the Evil God?"

"Did Da Mo engage the tail-eating snake while the Evil God delivered the final blow?"

"So the tail-eating snake and the Evil God were adversaries? Hm... This is not surprising. The ’symbols’ of great existences are important; the Evil God is time, while the tail-eating snake represents fate... These two don’t seem to be in conflict, but when it comes to the future and divination, obviously, there’s an intersection."

The tail-eating snake had engaged in a protracted struggle with the fallen Da Mo because it wanted to control the domain of the Seven Deadly Sins.

And it was only natural that it became hostile toward the Evil God due to the domain of prophesying the future.

"These Evil Gods truly create havoc..."

Shenxiu complained and walked out of the village.

Suddenly, with a sense of realization, he turned back and saw that the small village had vanished without a trace, shrouded in ’secrecy’.

His expression changed abruptly, "What I just witnessed, was it a piece of ’hidden’ history?! Why could I see it? Has someone, no, some existence revealed it to me?"

The feeling of being watched and manipulated made Shenxiu’s every pore tremble.

Without a second thought, he returned to the real world.

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