Chapter 976 - 962: Primordial Wilderness

When everyone looked at Su Muyao, expressions of astonished admiration appeared one after another.

Although the Plant System Beastmen were more beautiful in appearance, especially the Young Master of the main family and the Young Masters of other top clans—their looks were absolutely peerless.

Yet they were still dazzled by the Holy Female’s city-toppling beauty and unique temperament.

However, compared to this, they were more concerned about whether they could leave this place.

So when they looked at Su Muyao, it was as if they were looking at hope; each gaze carried a look of expectation.

The High Priest said, "Everyone, go back for now. Don’t disturb the Holy Female and Lord Mei."

Among the Plant System Beastmen, when respectfully addressing someone, they usually used "Lord."

Su Muyao roughly understood their customs.

She recalled that earlier when Lin Xu addressed that Phoenix Tree Beastman, she had also called him "Lord" something.

With the High Priest having spoken, everyone returned to the tribe.

The High Priest personally led Su Muyao and Mei Qingchen to a cave halfway up the mountain.

The cave was indeed very large, located on the mountainside, mainly to prevent attacks from giant beasts.

The High Priest had people prepare beast meat for Su Muyao and the others, and it was fresh beast meat.

Su Muyao thought of Teng Lixuan’s eating habits; he seemed to also like meat, only eating vegetables occasionally.

Previously Teng Lixuan had said that even Plant System Beastmen ate meat; if they didn’t eat beast meat, they would easily go hungry and lack strength.

The Plant System Beastmen here were ultimately different from plants, with great distinctions between them.

Su Muyao knew that for Mo Rong Clan Beastmen, hunting giant beasts was very difficult, so this food was likely very precious.

Su Muyao said, "High Priest, we have food here, and we won’t finish it in a short time. You should take it back first and let your clansmen eat it."

"If it’s left for too long, it won’t taste good anyway."

The High Priest looked at Su Muyao and Mei Qingchen, and when he saw the item in Mei Qingchen’s hand, his expression shifted. He recognized it as a Space Ring.

He understood that they might have stored the food in the Space Ring.

He had indeed guessed wrong.

As expected of the Holy Female—her Beast Husband was extremely powerful.

In their ancestral land, only the main family’s Young Master and a few others possessed some Magic Artifacts; the branch clans’ access to Magic Artifacts was far too limited.

Magic Artifacts were extremely precious to the Plant System Beastmen.

Because Artifact Refiners were far too scarce, and the powerful Artifact Refiner existed only in legend.

"Holy Female, is there anything else you need? I will have people prepare it."

Su Muyao shook her head. "No. I just want to ask you a few questions."

The High Priest replied respectfully, "Please ask, Holy Female. Whatever I know, I will tell you completely."

Su Muyao asked, "Tell us about the Golden Lotus Clan."

Su Muyao wanted to understand the Golden Lotus Clan.

Although Mei Qingchen had now awakened some inheritance memories of the Purifying Golden Lotus, he still didn’t know anything about the Golden Lotus Clan among the Plant System Beastmen.

Nor did they know what the current situation of the Golden Lotus Clan was.

The High Priest’s expression shifted several times, then he said, "Among our Plant System Beastmen, the Golden Lotus Clan is the most supreme and sacred clan, because in legend, only Pure-blood Golden Lotus Beastmen have a chance to awaken the Purification Power."

"All of our various Beastman clans hope the Golden Lotus Clan will produce someone with Purification Power, who can cleanse the pollution."

"The places where Plant System Beastmen live are also becoming increasingly polluted."

"Unfortunately, by the time we fell into this place, not a single Beastman in the Golden Lotus Clan had awakened the Purification Power."

After pausing, the High Priest’s expression grew solemn. "There’s a rumor that the Pure-blood female of the Golden Lotus Clan who died, Jin Lianrong, very likely awakened the Purification Power."

"But that is only hearsay. No one has ever seen Jin Lianrong, and Jin Lianrong also died at the hands of the Youluo Tree Beastman."

"In fact, everyone’s hatred toward the Youluo Tree Beastman and their suppression of the Youluo Clan are related to this. The Purification Power is our hope."

"It can purify all evil and pollution."

Speaking of this, the High Priest couldn’t help but sigh.

"The Golden Lotus Clan should originally have been one of the stronger branches within the Lotus Clan. It’s said that the lotus petals of the Lotus Clan all possess powerful Divine Skills, and the strongest Divine Skills within the Golden Lotus Clan’s petals should be related to the Purification Power. Without the Purification Power, the Golden Lotus Clan fares poorly within the Lotus Clan."

"Of course, the Lotus Clan is the top, most powerful race among our Plant System Beastmen. We don’t know the specific information about the clan."

"These are just some rumors I happened to hear when I went to the main family to attend a grand gathering."

Su Muyao and Mei Qingchen exchanged a look; both their expressions were somewhat grave.

Because Su Muyao thought of something: that Youluo Tree Beastman back then had wanted to harm Jin Lianrong in order to seize her Beast Blood and use a Secret Technique to obtain her Purification Power.

Mei Qingchen naturally thought of this as well and asked, "Do your Plant System Beastmen have any means of obtaining another’s superpower?"

The High Priest stared in shock, eyes wide. "How could that be possible?"

"I’ve never even heard of such a thing. Superpower, including Divine Skills, are innate abilities of a Beastman; how could others possibly seize them?"

After speaking, the High Priest seemed to think of something; his face turned alternately green and pale, and his eyes filled with hatred. "If such a Secret Technique truly exists, it must be connected to the Demon Clan."

The beings the High Priest hated most were the Demon Beasts.

"But we don’t know where the Demon Beasts are, and we have never seen them."

"It is said that Demon Beasts came from Otherworld realms outside our Ancient Wilderness Continent."

"Demon Beasts possess many cruel and mysterious Secret Techniques."

"However, it seems the reason the Demon Clan has not appeared rampantly across our Ancient Wilderness Continent is because there is a suppressive Power left here by the Heavenly Dao."

"Of course, these are all rumors. We don’t know the exact truth either."

"Our Moro Clan is only a branch. Although I am the High Priest, I’m still incomparable to those powerful Great Fate Masters."

Su Muyao had previously heard the Youluo Tree Beastman mention the Flower Clan’s Great Fate Master.

He had said the Flower Clan’s Great Fate Master was the faith of the Flower Clan, with an exalted status.

"In the top great clans, the clan’s overall High Priest is also the Great Fate Master, responsible for many matters of the clan."

"But ever since our Ancient Wilderness Continent became severely polluted, the Great Fate Master’s Power has also been affected to a certain degree."

Su Muyao asked, "Do you know of the Thorn Flower Clan?"

The High Priest replied, "Of course. Ci Xiang was the one who colluded with the Youluo Tree Beastman and harmed Jin Lianrong."

"But the Flower Clan’s Great Fate Master severely punished the Thorn Flower Clan, invoking the clan laws to abolish part of their ability and exile them to the Taixu Secret Realm. However, it’s said that the Great Fate Master’s intention was to have them find a female and redeem their sins."

"The clan even gave that female the clan’s important item, the Thorn Flower Illusion Moon Liquid, and placed a Restriction on her to prevent her defiance."

"Our Moro Clan, as a small branch tribe, only knows this from rumors."

"I only heard about it because I am the High Priest and learned of it during a sacrificial ceremony."

If it were someone else, he would absolutely not speak of these things.

But toward the Holy Female, he held nothing back.

Listening to this, Su Muyao felt it connect with the information she had once learned from the Youluo Tree Beastman in the Taixu Secret Realm.

So the ancestral land where the Plant System Beastmen lived was the Ancient Wilderness Continent.

"Then what about the Vine Clan?"