Chapter 1268 - 349: Qingyi and the Secret Stories

Chapter 1268: Chapter 349: Qingyi and the Secret Stories

Yuchi learned a lot from Sun Miaoxing, but now he’s quite curious and presses on, "So old thief Sun, you said so much just now, what’s all this got to do with the Withered Tomb Bones?"

Yeah.

There are many versions of battles between evil spirits and cultivators, but what do the bones in the valley have to do with it?

Why so impatient? I’m not your wife... Sun Miaoxing glanced sideways at Yuchi behind him, "There’s a connection, don’t rush. We’ll talk it through slowly, what’s this? You don’t even have the patience to listen to a story now?"

Yuchi glanced at Yin Shuang who was tilling the herb garden, pretending not to notice, "No, no, please continue, I’ll massage your back."

"That’s more like it."

Sun Miaoxing was satisfied, "Now, writing back in, we just spoke about these evil spirits, let’s not worry right now about what specifically happened back then, let’s just talk about the final outcome. In the end, this evil spirit was definitely driven away; otherwise, we wouldn’t be here now."

"And before the evil spirit was driven away, it was still very furious!"

"It launched a powerful stomp across the crack onto our nine states, a seemingly insignificant shadow of a claw pierced through the crack and landed firmly on the earth."

"It was precisely because of this claw’s phantom attack that the original vast state got divided into the nine states."

"These sprawling black mountain clusters tore ruthlessly across the ground, like vast scars covering the earth, thus leading to the formation of the nine states."

"Can you imagine? Just one claw turned the land into something like this, huh!?"

Sun Miaoxing looked at Yuchi and exclaimed in awe.

How could I not think of that... even a tadpole can bring forth new life... Yuchi: "Old thief Sun, stop babbling about other things, go on, if I can’t follow, I’ll interrupt you."

"..." Sun Miaoxing, "Fine, have it your way."

"Then at the beginning, there wasn’t this saying of upper and lower three states; the nine states were all pretty balanced, all with lush waters and fertile lands. But some phantoms left behind by that evil spirit, they all fled to the lower three states to hide, and of course, the cultivators wouldn’t let them go."

"So, the cultivators chased into the lower three states, and with the various battles and devastations, the lower three states slowly turned into a desert, ocean, and grey mountains."

"Of course, just the battles between the cultivators and evil spirits couldn’t cause this; primarily, it was due to the black mountains’ engulfing. It seemed to have a significant transformative ability that poisoned the soil of the lower three states, leading to the point where the people of the lower three states had no choice but to leave, relocating entirely."

"And seeing the cultivators and people leave the lower three states, the monsters certainly rushed into the lower three states seeking refuge, after all, back then monsters were weak, smack them down, no resistance at all."

"But over time, the monsters living in the lower three states gradually grew stronger. So much so that today, the lower three states became forbidden zones for cultivators; otherwise, the people of the sixth state could simply flee to the lower three states, rather than escape to the front few large states."

"And the battlefields where cultivators fought with evil spirit phantoms are the lingering Ancient Battlefields everywhere, with most of them in the lower three states, though there are a few elsewhere that are hard to find."

"As for the Withered Tomb Bones, these are the remains left behind after these evil spirits died. In themselves, the remains aren’t of much use, but some scoundrel once said that these Withered Tomb Bones could enhance yang and prolong battle time, so they got ground into powder."

"So if you want to find Withered Tomb Bones now, you better head to the lower three states as the previous six states hardly have any left. Once there, ask around at the monster inn, don’t bring gold or silver, it’s useless there; elixirs are the hard currency at the monster inn."

"And certainly, once you reach the lower three states, trust no one, especially not your fellow townspeople... your fellow townsfolk can sometimes be especially ruthless, scarier than the monsters, they grew up eating the flesh of their kin."

"Oh, by the way, there’s one more thing I forgot to mention, it’s not only the lower three states that have traces of Withered Tomb Bones, you could go to the first state, there’s a place called Xuelan Valley."

"This place also supposedly has the presence of Withered Tomb Bones, after all, Xuelan Valley to the first state is like Celestial Craft Workshop to our third state, they have some foundation, quite deft with handling various remains."

"Lastly, this battle I’m talking about sounds easygoing, but actually if you look at the lower three states, you’ll understand what devastation really looks like."

"As for where the evil spirit broke through the sky, it’s currently at the southernmost point of the fifth state, you could go take a look. That place still has scattered magical artifacts from back then, but it’s very dangerous there, if you’re not thinking straight, you could go take a look, going there is basically a death wish."

"After all..."

"After that brief scorching of war, the population of the nine states shrunk by eighty percent, eh! If regions hadn’t had some surviving populace, even a small cluster of people wouldn’t have developed to the current extent; you can imagine how tragic the war was."