Stronger by Killing

Chapter 642 -342: Captive Humans

On top of the Celestial Secret Tower, Yan Qingshan looked pale, his eyes filled with horror.

At this moment,

a stream of light suddenly flew in from the horizon and landed instantly beside Yan Qingshan, transforming into a paper crane, which directly spoke in a low, middle-aged man’s voice:

“Fellow Daoist Qing Shan, please come to Lingtai Mountain for a gathering.”

Once the voice was finished, the paper crane turned into a puff of Spiritual Qi and disappeared.

Yan Qingshan turned his head to look at several fellow sect members and said, “It’s a message from the Sect Leader of the Sword Sect, Ming Zhishou; it must be about that cultivator of the Kouxian Sect, summoning us to discuss.”

The old woman looked very solemn and asked, “Sect Leader, is it really worth mobilizing so many people?”

Yan Qingshan pondered for a moment and said, “Well, it’s time to tell you the truth.”

As he spoke, Yan Qingshan sighed deeply and said, “Currently, in the human world, there shouldn’t be a fifth cultivator of the Kouxian Sect appearing. Once a fifth appears, it means that darkness is coming.”

The old woman and the others all showed surprise.

Yan Qingshan continued, “You are all aware of the extinction of the Three Major Ancestral Veins which perished to face the calamity for the human world.”

The five individuals nodded.

The extinction of the Three Major Ancestral Veins is the biggest secret of the current world. In the entire Cultivation Realm, only the Four Major Side Sects know about it. The ancestral lands of the legendary Three Major Ancestral Veins actually perished during the great Spiritual Qi disappearance catastrophe in the human world ten thousand years ago; it was a complete extinction.

However, this matter is too significant for the Cultivation Realm. If it were to spread, the panic and chaos caused would be terrifying. The Four Major Side Sects joined forces to seal this matter, and coincidentally, the Cultivation Realm retired from the world. This matter has remained concealed to this day, so much so that even the branch lines dispersed from the Three Major Ancestral Veins are unaware of this fact.

The reason the Four Major Side Sects know so clearly,

is because, before the previous catastrophe, the Three Major Ancestral Lands secretly gathered the leaders of the Four Major Side Sects and revealed a truth to them, a truth about this world.

Yan Qingshan looked up into the Chaotic Void and said, “At that time, the Three Major Ancestral Lands summoned the four of us to tell us a truth, something we have never revealed. I thought this could be hidden for many years, but I never expected that just as Spiritual Qi has just recovered, a second calamity is about to arrive. I must tell you, if one day I disappear, don’t look for me, and do not go to the Kouxian Sect. Just focus on developing the Talisman Dao.”

“Sect Leader…”

The others were all frightened and dismayed.

Yan Qingshan waved his hand and calmly said, “The truth is… the world is fake.”

“Fake?” The old woman asked in confusion, “What do you mean by fake?”

“Everything!” Yan Qingshan said with a grave expression, “Everything we know, everything we comprehend, is fake. The Four Great Wildernesses are fake. There never was a Wilderness. There is no Demon Race, nor is there the Eastern Wilderness’s Immortal Realm. What exists has always been only a Southern Wilderness Human World.”

“How can this be possible?” the old woman asked in surprise, “The Three Major Ancestral Veins led the human world in fighting the Demon Race for so many years? How can it be fake? We’ve also fought fiercely against the Demon Race at Shanhai Pass!”

Yan Qingshan waved his hand and said, “But, has any of you crossed Shanhai Pass and seen what the true Northern Wilderness is like?”

As he spoke, Yan Qingshan took out an Inheritance Pill Bead from his Spatial Ring and said, “You’ve all studied these Demon Race Techniques. What happens if humans cultivate them?”

“They become Half-Demons!” an elder said.

“And after becoming Half-Demons?” Yan Qingshan continued, “We’ve always overlooked one issue. The techniques of the Demon Race are very powerful, and naturally, their lifespans are long. Yet why, whenever the Demon Race attacks the human world, are their numbers not great, and their strong ones have never formed a crushing power? This is abnormal. Their techniques are powerful, their lifespan long; their foundation should far exceed that of the human world. But strangely, it doesn’t. There’ve almost never been Demon Race cultivators in the Kouxian Sect.”

The old woman asked in confusion, “Sect Leader, are you saying that the so-called Demon Race is actually humans? But this also doesn’t make sense. If those who cultivated the Demon Race Techniques were transformed by the techniques into the Demon Race, they would still be in the human world. Besides, we have purposely had people cultivate Demon Race Techniques, but we haven’t seen anyone completely evolve into a demon!”

Yan Qingshan said blandly, “Then, after the catastrophe, as the human world traversed ten thousand years, the entire Cultivation Realm hid inside a barrier. During that period, how many people disappeared from the entire Cultivation Realm? How many forces were obliterated, and how could you know?”

The old woman frowned and said, “Sect Leader, you mean that during this period is when those people completely transformed into demons?”

“Exactly,” Yan Qingshan said, “Think about it carefully. In history, which conflict between the human and demon races didn’t happen after a catastrophe? And during the catastrophe, there was always a gap period, that stage…”

The old woman said heavily, “That stage is the period of transforming into demons?”

“Correct,” Yan Qingshan said, “Ten thousand years ago, the Three Major Ancestral Lands summoned the four of us Kouxian Sect cultivators to the ancestral lands and told us a few truths. One of them is about the issue of humans and demons, which is the truth about the so-called Northern Wilderness Demon Realm.

Beyond Shanhai Pass, there isn’t a Demon Realm. It’s just a piece of chaos. Back then, a Red Dust Immortal from Confucianism exhausted his cultivation and life force to leave Shanhai Pass and discovered this truth.”

The old woman asked in confusion, “Is the mastermind ‘it’?”

The old woman spoke while pointing to the sky.

“Yes, it’s ‘it’!” Yan Qingshan nodded.

“But, what’s the purpose of doing this?” the old woman asked confused.

Yan Qingshan pondered, “That’s the second truth, to drive the development of the human cultivators. Without a strong external enemy, there is no sense of pressure. Without pressure, how can there be so many powerful cultivators in the human world? How would anyone strive to continually develop and explore the way forward?”

The old woman frowned, “Why force humanity to progress?”

Yan Qingshan fell silent,

After a long time, he slowly spoke, “If you were rearing a group of pigs in a pen, wouldn’t you do everything you could to make those pigs inside grow fatter and bigger?”

The old woman and the others all widened their eyes, a chill rising from their backs like thorns, a fear born from the depths of their souls, causing goosebumps to form.

“The human world… is a pasture? And us cultivators, are merely larger pigs??”

Yan Qingshan gritted his teeth, took a long breath, and said, “This is the truth of this world. There has never been a flourishing Cultivation Era, never a Great Dao, nor any defiance of fate. Our destinies were destined from the moment of our birth. We are merely the livestock being raised!”