Poison God's Heritage

Chapter 565 Tale Older Than Time

"Didn't I tell you, I found a good gem," replied the Lord of Lords proudly.

"Say, you wouldn't mind if I snatch him…" The Wisest Sun said.

"Of course I will," replied the Lord of Lords.

They then began bickering among each other.

"I can teach him so many things, though his understanding is amazing, he'll need a mentor, do you know how much Law still lies undiscovered, with his mind he'll be able to grasp things faster than anyone and will come to understand the great Dao!" the Wisest Sun said.

"Cut the crap," replied the Lord of Lords, "You know well that the path you're treading isn't meant for everyone, even if he follows you, do you think he'll like to be cooped up in a hut in a random place grinding away to learn the world truth where instead with me he could reach the peak of cultivation, he can stand at the peak!"

"That's even a bolder and loftier goal than mine, are you sure you're not turning senile old lord!"

Their bickering continued on for a while until it was interrupted when Shen Bao decided to leave the Pagoda.

Ten years he stayed in front of the closed Gate. Ten years he toiled and labored to repair the keys destroyed by the Fire Lord, and now he emerged wiser, and with the tools to conquer what many had thought to be nothing but a faraway dream.

Yet the first thing he didn't wasn't to jubilantly use the keys to open the gate, but looked around and whistled, loud enough that it reverberated through the Vast Expanse.

He then sat down and meditated to fix his perturbed spirit and exhaustion of so many years cooped up alone.

A few hours later, a thunderous boom echoed from far away, it looked as if a thunderous cloud was coming towards him. Hooves struck space itself, replicating the sound of a murderous stampede that wanted to crush and trample the heavens underneath them.

It came toward Shen Bao with haste never before seen and stopped right in front of him, a bull, golden in color and mighty in presence stood and nuzzled its face against Shen Bao.

"Good to see you again little cabbage," Shen Bao said.

"That's a Thunder Bull!" the wisest sun said.

"Indeed," replied the Lord of Lords.

"How is a Thunderbull here? In this land? I'm pretty sure I didn't even put anything that should allow such an existence to be birthed here in my keys"

"You didn't" said the Lord of Lords.

"Then how is it here?"

"Is that the only thing you noticed that shouldn't be here? Look at Shen Bao closely," said the Lord of Lords.

The Wisest Sun did so, and then his brows rose.

"That's a Primordial Serpent's blood…" he then turned to the Lord of Lords and said, "What have you been doing here?"

"I didn't do anything," the Lord of Lords shrugged.

"I find it hard to understand how some of the beasts of the Beyond are here, in this land… the bull… is strange enough, but it has yet to fully awaken its bloodline so it isn't out of the realm of possibilities to have been created here. Only the chances would be infinitesimally small. But the Primordial Serpent, that is a complete impossibility. Because there exist only one. And that one disappeared tens of thousands of years ago… but… how did it survive long enough? There is no Origin Qi here, its only Saint Qi… it couldn't have lived longer than a few dozen millennia before it perished… but the anciency of the blood in that child's veins is more than millions of years old. Granted the time difference is enormous between here and the Beyond but the quality of Qi is limited it shouldn't allow anything to surpass the Emperor stage…"

"You know you start rambling on by yourself whenever you encounter something interesting, and that annoys me," the Lord of Lords said.

"I apologize but this is unfathomable!"

"It isn't" replied the Lord of Lords.

"How come?" asked the Wisest Sun.

"Thirteen thousand years ago, in the Fallen Lands, there was a celestial clan that lived there…"

"I remember the incident, the entire clan was eradicated, I believe it was the work of the Darkest Sun," he said.

"Yes, someone from that clan, which was a branch clan of the main family offended a member of the main family. And thus the entire side clan was eradicated. Some had escaped and ran away to faraway lands away from the oppression of the Darkest Sun, but because the main clan didn't wish for the side clan to even exist anymore, they decided to completely eradicate their roots. They took over their land and exiled the entirety of the region to the Vast Expanse."

"They did that under your nose, and you didn't even notice it," said the Lord of Lords.

"I had already given up on the Vast Expanse, my goal was to see if life would come to exist if all elements were present. But I failed. Beasts and monsters born of Qi were easy to make once the terrain was available, but creating sentient life forms was not possible,"

"Indeed, the source of humanity in this Vast Expanse is basically whoever was alive from when the Celestial land was exiled." The Lord of Lords said.

"I believed it to be something similar but had no proof,"

"Yes, though the main clan had exiled a gigantic portion of that clan's lands. The people who came to the Vast Expanse weren't all clan members. Those of the same clan gathered up and grouped up, then created the Imperial Family that ruled over the vast expanse ages and ages ago. As for the rest of the stragglers, slaves, and many people who worked and served the branch family and were also dragged into this mess, they spread out in the Vast Expanse and created their own culture and civilization, some perished and some lived to create offspring that lasted until today."

"How can you be sure that that land came here?" asked the Wisest Sun.

"Gaze upon the northern side, far beyond the rifts of the void, and in between the cracks of space, there exists a land, that is made entirely from the dirt of the beyond."

The Wisest Sun focused his eyes, and it was as if he moved billions of miles in a second, his eyes pierced through the fabric of space itself and he was able to see it.

An entire city, where beasts and creatures roamed, the land was impeccably kept. It's ground brown gold and the buildings were very familiar to the Wisest Sun. The only interesting thing was that the whole city was coated with formations and inscriptions, someone had spent a good deal of time working their way into covering even the blades of grass with protective formations.

Although parts of it were destroyed…

The eyes of the Wisest Sun returned and then he said, "It actually is there… how did you know?"

"I placed my Pagoda there, and that child claimed it. As for life to exist here from just the keys," the Lord of Lords shook his head, "I believe the kid mistook the keys for the creators of life," said the Lord of Lords.

"Indeed, though smart he still lacks many things, his understanding is unfathomable, but he forgot one thing about the keys. They only provided the environment where life can begin, but they didn't start it, it's impossible if I was able to do so wouldn't I be in the realm of the Heavens?"

"The Soul?"

"Indeed…"

The two sighed, they still needed to understand more about life itself, and now looking at Shen Bao, they had hope, that someone would be able to give them a new perspective. The wisest sun wants to see the Dao by understanding it, and the Lord of Lords, wants to understand Dao by standing at the peak, they are both paths that lead to the same goal, and Shen Bao is one who is able to walk both.

They could only watch as they saw Shen Bao leaving for the Heavenly Academy. He hadn't seen his friends in a while, and now with the keys repaired, they would be interested in seeing what lay beyond this prison.