A long time ago, many powerful sects existed in the vast land of Black Water. Later on however, due to one of the so-called Sacred race's prided geniuses dying there, they sent down divine punishment, exterminating every last life form in Black Water...
Heartless and powerful.
This was the only impression Zhou Yuan had towards the Sacred race.
He had thought it would be a long time before he would encounter this entity again, but who could have expected that he would once again hear of it here...
Zhou Yuan could not help but ask, “What is the Sacred race?”
Yaoyao’s bright eyes also looked towards patriarch Cang Xuan. She had read many ancient texts, but was unable to find much information regarding the Sacred race.
Patriarch Cang Xuan looked towards the sky with a complicated expression, an expression mixed with sorrowful hatred and fear.
“At the beginning, before any living had come into existence, the first race to be born from the primal mass of creation was the Sacred race.”
Patriarch Cang Xuan slowly continued, “The Sacred race was endowed with superior talent, making them extremely powerful. In ancient times, they were the rulers of the world. Every other race, whether man, beast, or anything else were enslaved by them, living under their control.
“Later on, the various races rebelled, causing a great war to break out. Only through this were they able to free themselves from their slave shackles.”
“Even so, the Sacred race still act as if they are better than everyone else, making it forbidden to challenge or even insult them. Members of the Sacred race have extremely high status, and the other races do not dare to make enemies of them, allowing them to thread over the races as they please.”
"Only the inexhaustible human race was able to grow strong on their own and make a place for themselves in the world. From our tiny beginnings, we struggled and grew, countless honorable ancestors protecting each generation. By paying a tremendous price, the human race was able to carve a place for ourselves. Even so, we were still at a disadvantage.”
Patriarch Cang Xuan sighed softly. “Do you know what land we are currently on?"
“Cangxuan Heaven?” Answered Zhou Yuan.
Patriarch Cang Xuan then asked, "What about outside Cangxuan Heaven?"
Zhou Yuan was rather taken aback. Cangxuan Heaven was already vast beyond his view. As for outside Cangxuan Heaven, how would he know? His current level was far too low after all.
"To be precise, the world we're on is called Tianyuan World. It is composed of nine Heavens, and Cangxuan Heaven is one of them.
Zhou Yuan was wide-eyed and slack-jawed. Only now did he realise how tiny he was. The seemingly endless Cangxuan Heaven in his eyes was a mere one of nine...
Just how vast was the entire Tianyuan World?
"Of the nine Heavens, the Sacred race owns four, while the other five are shared by the various races."
Only now did Zhou Yuan truly understand how tyrannical the Sacred race was. To think that a single race would own nearly half of Tianyuan World.
"Then why is the Sacred race after me?" Yaoyao frowned slightly.
This was clearly the greatest mystery. The Sacred race relentlessly hunted her down, and even a Saint level expert like patriarch Cang Xuan had been willing to die in order to protect her.
Not to mention grandpa Hei who had also been protecting her all this time.
In response to this question, patriarch Cangxuan was silent for some time, before he said, “I cannot give you an answer because the implications are far too great. Both of you are still too weak, knowing too much will only allow you to be more easily found by the great powers of the Sacred race.”
He stared at Yaoyao and Zhou Yuan as he continued, “In the future, when both of you become truly strong, you will naturally find out.”
Yaoyao gently bit into her red lips in silence.
Patriarch Cang Xuan laughed and began to speak again, “Moreover, you were not the only reason why the Sacred race attacked me.”
“I was once the number one expert in Cangxuan Heaven after all, and founder of the Cangxuan Sect. Back then, my sect was the number one sect in Cangxuan Heaven.”
“Cangxuan Sect huh?” Zhou Yuan’s heart shook slightly. The bare-foot uncle he met in Saint Remains City seemed to be from the Cangxuan Sect.
He never imagined patriarch Cang Xuan would be the founder and teacher ancestor of the Cangxuan Sect.
Zhou Yuan suddenly asked, “Then what relation does Sacred Palace have to the Sacred race?”
The envoy of Sacred Palace had just come to mind.
In the current Cangxuan Heaven, Sacred Palace was the strongest.
Scorn appeared in patriarch Cangxuan’s eyes when he heard the two words Sacred palace as he sneered, “What else can they be but the Sacred race’s dogs. After the great war, the various races were freed from the Sacred race’ enslavement and set-up the Chaos Origin Sacred Killer Array, which restricted the entry of the apex level experts of the Sacred race into the five great Heavens. However, the Sacred race began to recruit members of the human race, creating a faction that served them, treated them as gods and did their bidding.”
“If not for Sacred Palace’s meddling, resulting in a vulnerability in the Chaos Origin Saint Killer Array that in turn allowed the apex level experts of the Sacred race to descend, I would have long wiped them off the face of this world!”
At this point, chilling killing intent rose in patriarch Cang Xuan’s eyes.
“Though you were part of the reason why the Sacred race attacked me, the other part is because they were after the Cangxuan Saint Stamp in my possession.”
“Cangxuan Saint Stamp?” Zhou Yuan blinked. What was it?
A solemn expression emerged on patriarch Cang Xuan’s face as he slowly explained, “When the world was formed and the nine Heavens took shape, nine objects were born from the source energy. They are known as the Nine World Stamps, and the Cangxuan Saint Stamp is one of them.”
“The owners of these Saint Stamps are the rulers of each of the Heavens. They are known as the Heaven Masters!”
“And I was the previous Heaven Master of Cangxuan Heaven!”
Patriarch Cangxuan smiled faintly as he declared this, a rarely seen pride together with a stern, dignified aura appearing on his youthful handsome face.
“Heaven Master…”
Zhou Yuan secretly wet his lips. What a domineering title. The master of a Heaven huh. Looks like patriarch Cangxuan was really damn amazing.
“Sacred Palace schemed to obtain the Cangxuan Saint Stamp to replace me and become the new Heaven Master of Cangxuan Heaven. Hence why they purposely drew over the apex level Sacred race experts.” Patriarch Cang Xuan’s eyes were ice-cold.
Zhou Yuan could not help but ask, “Then… did they succeed?”
Patriarch Cang Xuan chuckled. “Although they killed me and divided my Spirit into parts that were sealed, they underestimated me. The Cangxuan Saint Stamp was also split and scattered by me, so how could they have succeeded?”
Zhou Yuan breathed a tiny sigh of relief when he heard this. He had no good feelings towards Sacred Palace. What’s more, the Sacred Palace envoy had secretly tried to help Wu Huang kill him outside the Saint Remains Domain. Thus, he would naturally be opposed to seeing Sacred Palace flourish.
Patriarch Cang Xuan looked at Zhou Yuan and suddenly said, “Do you know the origins behind the Saint Rune you obtained?”
Zhou Yuan was stunned, seemingly realising something as his eyes widened. “Could it be?”
Patriarch Cang Xuan smile faintly and slowly nodded his head. However, his voice was akin to thunder when it landed in Zhou Yuan’s ears, causing him to be shocked into a daze.
“That’s right. The Saint Rune you obtained comes from the Cangxuan Saint Stamp!”
Chapter 203 Four Saint Runes
“No wonder it’s so amazing.” A long while later, Zhou Yuan gradually returned to his senses as he
sighed in amazement.
This Saint Rune was able to find the vulnerabilities in numerous Genesis techniques, allowing him to break the opponents techniques with the minimum amount of power. Such an ability was practically cheating.
In the previous battle with Wu Huang, if not for the Saint Rune’s miraculous power, Zhou Yuan would have had to pay an even steeper price to obtain victory.
Hence why Zhou Yuan was struck by a sudden flash of understanding when he heard it had originated from the Cangxuan Saint Stamp.
“This Saint Rune is called the Decoder Saint Rune, and has the ability to find the vulnerabilities in all things. It’s also one of the four Saint Runes that I split off from the Cangxuan Saint Stamp.” Patriarch Cangxuan smiled faintly.
“One of the four split off Saint Runes?” Zhou Yuan quickly realised the key words.
Patriarch Cang Xuan nodded as he elaborated, “When I was ambushed by the great powers of the Sacred race, they tried to take the Cangxuan Saint Stamp I controlled. However, they never imagined that I was already long prepared for such a scenario. I had sealed the main vessel, while splitting off the four Saint Runes on it, weakening its power and preventing the Sacred race from finding its location.”
Zhou Yuan licked his lips inside. So there were a total of four of these mysterious Saint Runes.
The Decoder Saint Rune was already so amazing. Zhou Yuan wondered what kind of powers the other three possessed.
Patriarch Cang Xuan grinned as he gazed at Zhou Yuan, and suddenly said in a serious voice, “Little lad, I see that you have fantastic talent, and have an important mission for you.”
Zhou Yuan could sense that something was wrong. “Elder, you can’t be thinking of asking me to find the Cangxuan Saint Stamp, right?”
“Smart lad.” Praised patriarch Cang Xuan.
Zhou Yuan immediately began shaking his head. “Elder you think too highly of me. I’m only a little Heaven Gate stage practitioner, how can I possibly have the qualifications to even touch such an ultimate treasure!”
He was not brain damaged. Sure, the Cangxuan Saint Stamp was an ultimate treasure, but Zhou Yuan knew that it was also akin to a scalding hot sweet potato. Let alone the Sacred race, even Sacred Palace was already an unimaginable behemoth in his eyes.
If he were to come to possess the Cangxuan Saint Stamp, and Sacred Palace somehow detected it. The disaster that followed would definitely be beyond his ability.
“Unambitious brat!”
Patriarch Cang Xuan glared at Zhou Yuan. However, the former was a little surprised that Zhou Yuan was able to reject him. After all, any ordinary person would have long lost any semblance of rationality after hearing about this ultimate treasure, only greed left in them as they desperately tried to think of how to get their hands on it.
In a certain way, he did admire Zhou Yuan for having such rationality.
“Brat, don’t you want to protect her?” Patriarch Cang Xuan shot a glance to the side at Yaoyao.
There was no hesitation in Zhou Yuan’s voice as he answered, “That is my promise to master Cang Yuan.”
Patriarch Cang Xuan merely let out an icy chuckle. ‘But you now know what kind of person she is, right? Do you dare to provoke her enemies? Do you think the likes of you can protect her?”
Zhou Yuan calmly replied, “I do not know whether I will be able to protect her, but I will do everything in my power. I promised master Cang Yuan that the only way anyone will be able to hurt her is by stepping over my corpse.”
By the side, Yaoyao’s bright eyes seem to swirl a little. She cast a casual glance at him as her red lips curled slightly downwards. “For the past one to two years, I’ve been the one protecting you.”
Although she said so, there was a glimmer of a smile in her pupils.
Zhou Yuan’s face turned red as he tried to explain, “You’ve gotta give me time to grow stronger!”
“That’s a little more like it.” Patriarch Cang Xuan chuckled before he continued, “However, I have to tell you that if the Cangxuan Saint Stamp lands in the hands of Sacred Palace, the Sacred Palace master would become the new master of Cangxuan Heaven. When that happens, the range of his senses will grow beyond your imaginable. In fact… he may even be able to discover Yaoyao.”
“In addition, because you’ve already obtained one of the Saint Runes, the first agenda on the Sacred Palace master’s list after obtaining the Cangxuan Saint Stamp would be to find the four Saint Runes, and allow the stamp to regain its full power.”
“And you… will definitely be the first person in his crosshairs.”
Zhou Yuan’s expression could not help but change. It had clearly yet to strike him that the Sant Rune was also a scalding hot sweet potato.
“Elder, didn’t you say that the Cangxuan Saint Stamp was sealed by you and no one will be able to find it!”
Patriarch Cang Xuan smiled faintly. “It was indeed sealed by me, but Sacred Palace has never stopped searching for it. The Sacred Palace master is not useless either, and at this rate, he will be able to sense it sooner or later.”
Zhou Yuan was speechless.
When patriarch Cang Xuan saw the increasingly pained look on Zhou Yuan’s face, his tone softened slightly as he said, “Moreover, I don’t intend for you to find the Cangxuan Saint Stamp now. You may first search for the other three Saint Runes. That way, even if the Cangxuan Saint Stamp really ends up in the Sacred Palace’s hands, the Sacred Palace master would not be able to become the Heaven Master of Cangxuan Heaven.”
He shot a sideways glance at Zhou Yuan while he said, “I don’t believe that you aren’t interested in those three Saint Runes.”
Zhou Yuan wet his lips. It would be a lie to say he wasn’t interested in them. He had already experienced the amazing ability of the Decoder Saint Rune, and was naturally itching to find out what powers the other three Saint Runes possessed.
However, Cang Xuan’s words were not wrong either,. The Sacred race clearly wanted to capture Yaoyao, and as the dogs of the Sacred race, Sacred Palace would definitely become a huge threat to Yaoyao if they were to obtain the Cangxuan Saint Stamp.
Although he currently did not have the strength to oppose Sacred Palace, he was definitely willing to secretly create trouble for them, and at the very least prevent them from obtaining the complete Cangxuan Saint Stamp.
After some thought, Zhou Yuan finally asked, “Then where can I find the other three Saint Runes?”
The current him may not have the qualifications to find the Cangxuan Saint Stamp, but he could search for the four Saint Runes that had been split off from the Saint Stamp.
Upon seeing that Zhou Yuan was finally on board, patriarch Cang Xuan chuckled and said, “The second Saint Rune was sealed in the Cangxuan Sect’s Saint Genesis Peak.”
“Cangxuan Sect, Saint Genesis Peak?”
Patriarch Cang Xuan smiled as he nodded. “There are a total of seven peaks in Cangxuan Sect. Every peak has countless disciples, each with their own jobs and cultivation techniques. The Saint Genesis Peak is where I used seclude myself.”
Zhou Yuan said, “Wouldn’t that mean that I’ll have to enter Cangxuan Sect in order to obtain the second Saint Rune?”
Patriarch Cang Xuan smiled. “Why? Are you not willing? My Cangxuan Sect may not be as powerful as it was in the past, but it is still one of the strongest sects in Cangxuan Heaven.”
Zhou Yuan chuckled. He was naturally happy to join Cangxuan Sect. After all, he did need a powerful shield for him to go about his mission. Without a backer, Sacred Palace would be able to do anything they pleased with him whenever they wanted.
“The Saint Genesis Peak was sealed by me before I died, making it such that no one can enter. After the two of you enter Cangxuan Sect and pass the peak selection ceremony, you can use my signet to enter the Saint Genesis Peak, break the seal and reopen it.”
“How troublesome…” The corners of Zhou Yuan’s mouth drew back. “Old man, you’re the founder of Cangxuan Sect. Can’t
we take your signet straight to the sect master and seek permission to enter the Saint Genesis Peak to find the Saint Rune?”
“No.” Patriarch Cang Xuan slowly said, “The secret of the Saint Runes is too important, and no one in Cangxuan Sect knows of it. That’s why you cannot reveal it.”
“Moreover…”
Patriarch Cang Xuan was silent for a brief moment, before he said, “I suspect that my death was not solely because of outsiders…”
Zhou Yuan’s eyes narrowed. Could there be a spy in Cangxuan Sect?
“How dangerous.”
A pained look filled Zhou Yuan’s face. He stared at patriarch Cang Xuan and said in a voice that seemed to imply something else, “Elder, the task you’ve given is not easy at all. As the saying goes, if you want a horse to run fast, you’ve got to feed it well…”
When patriarch Cang Xuan saw how openly this fellow dared to ask, he could not help but let out an exasperated laugh, before he said in a slightly peeved voice, “Don’t worry, you won’t starve to death!”
He extended a hand as golden rays of light gathered towards it, gradually taking the shape of a drop of golden liquid.
It looked look a drop of golden blood.
The appearance of this golden drop of blood immediately caused wind to blow loudly as endless Genesis Qi began to surge over.
“What is it?” Zhou Yuan’s gaze was glued to the golden drop of blood as he swallowed his saliva.
Patriarch Cang Xuan softly chuckled.
“This is what all of you dream of obtaining in the Saint Remains Domain… a drop of my Saint blood.”
Chapter 204 A Step into Alpha-Origin
“Saint blood...”
Zhou Yuan’s gaze seemed to boil with excitement as he stared at the drop of golden blood. He could already feel the boundless Genesis Qi contained within it, the purity level causing his scalp to turn slightly numb.
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