nycdaug Chapter 106 Tens of thousands of years, all wasted.
Chapter 106 Tens of thousands of years, all wasted.
It was so happy that it forgot to tell Yun Zhao that ever since it realized it could leave this place, a memory had suddenly appeared in its mind.
To be precise, they are two separate memories.
A memory tells the Jade Fox that the demonic beasts guarding the spiritual plants are not real demonic beasts, but beings conjured by the consciousness of the secret realm.
Their existence is to protect the spiritual plants; once all the spiritual plants are taken away, they will disappear from the world.
Another memory also tells it that they are demonic beasts transformed from the secret realm, but the later part is different. It says that once the spiritual plants they guard are harvested, they will become real demonic beasts.
Bi Tonghu didn't know which was correct, but based on how things unfolded, the second paragraph was correct.
But why does the first memory exist in its sea of consciousness?
The Azure-Eyed Fox didn't understand; it couldn't figure it out. So, it decided to tell Yun Zhao and ask her to help sort things out.
Four people together are smarter than one person alone.
After hearing Yun Zhao's account, Han Mujiao was completely baffled. "Why do you think that is? It's really strange."
Jade-Eyed Fox: I know this is strange, isn't it obvious? I know, I wouldn't be asking you.
Yun Zhao thought for a moment and asked, "Before this, did you have any inherited memories that told you what to do?"
"You're all guarding your respective spiritual plants; someone must have instructed you to do so, right?"
Could it be that it was spontaneous?
The Azure-Eyed Fox shook its head and told Yun Zhao that since its birth, it had had a vague consciousness that it wanted to protect these spiritual plants.
It guessed that the other monsters were in the same situation as it.
After Yun Zhao finished recounting the story, Qi Yan said, "Zhao Zhao, the two memories that the Jade-Eyed Fox mentioned have one thing in common: they both require them to protect the spiritual plants."
Yun Zhao continued, "But the difference is that one requires the demon beasts to protect the spiritual plants from being picked, since they will dissipate after being picked. For their own lives, they must also desperately kill all those who covet the spiritual plants."
"The other is to use monsters as 'training' tools. As long as you can defeat a monster, you can get a spiritual plant reward."
She wanted to say NPC, but none of them knew what NPC meant, and it would be difficult to explain, so she changed her way of saying it.
Hanmujiao looked at Yun Zhao, then at Qi Yan, and scratched its head with the tip of its tail. "I have a guess. Since both of the Azure-Eyed Fox's memories tell it that it is not a real demon beast, but an illusion."
"Could it be that the spirit of the Spirit Void Secret Realm created them and then gave them a mission, and after completing the mission, something like this or that will happen?"
"But another mission suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The two missions interfered with each other, so the Azure-Eyed Fox and other demonic beasts only received a little information about the mission."
After Hanmujiao finished speaking, Yun Zhao couldn't help but look at it with new respect, "I didn't expect you to be so talented."
“Of course,” Han Mujiao straightened his chest, “This emperor is a man of great talent and wisdom!”
"Let me tell you, it's not too late to cling to my coattails... uh, my tail. If you do, you'll regret it..."
Han Mujiao launched into a long, self-praising speech, but Yun Zhao ignored it completely and forgot about it as soon as he heard it.
She replied perfunctorily, "Oh, right, right."
Hanmu Jiao: "..."
I have a feeling she's just giving me the runaround, but I can't find any evidence!
The Azure-Eyed Fox looked at this one, then at that one, and said, "Speaking of which, aren't we talking about my business?"
Or, could you help me resolve this first?
The Cold Wood Dragon finally remembered its business. It coughed and continued, "Assuming the second memory is true, the demon beasts should have been able to become true demon beasts very soon."
"But under the influence of another memory, they risked their lives to protect the spiritual plants and prevent the cultivators from taking them all away."
"Therefore, after all these years, they have not completed their mission and have not become true demon beasts. Naturally, they are unaware of the fact that they are not true demon beasts..."
Hanmujiao spoke at length, and after finishing, it admired its own intelligence for coming up with this guess.
Of course, to avoid the truth coming out later and finding that it was all nonsense, it added another sentence:
"Of course, the above is just my guess. The actual situation will depend on the specific circumstances."
After it finished speaking, there was a loud thud, and the Azure-Eyed Fox collapsed completely.
Bi Tonghu thought that Han Mujiao's guess was probably the truth.
So all those years of tireless protection of the spiritual plant, only to have its only offspring stolen and lose most of its essence and blood... it was all for naught!
The Azure-Eyed Fox didn't know where its first memory came from, but it already hated the owner of that memory.
I will definitely take revenge when I have the chance!
Qi Yan proposed another conjecture: "What if the other memory is the real one..."
He had barely started when the Azure-Eyed Fox interrupted him with a howl.
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
Yun Zhao chuckled, "Isn't that just making a big, dumb guy run around? Letting these monsters fleece us?"
That's right. The meaning of the first memory is to have the monsters guard the spiritual plant forever and kill anyone who tries to steal it.
There's no set timeframe yet; wouldn't they be living for this one thing forever?
Thinking of this, Yun Zhao suddenly remembered something, "Ayan, do you remember? Before entering the secret realm, the sect leader told us that we couldn't take all the spiritual plants guarded by demonic beasts. We had to leave some, otherwise the demonic beasts would attack us like crazy."
"He said these are principles that our predecessors have come to understand, the earliest of which can be traced back to hundreds of thousands of years ago. Does that mean the monsters in the Spirit Void Secret Realm have been working tirelessly for hundreds of thousands of years?"
The Azure-Eyed Fox had stood up, but as soon as Yun Zhao finished speaking, it collapsed back down with a thud.
Okay, okay, you're just making us work but not paying us, huh?
Even capitalists aren't this corrupt!
Having been a fellow worker (in the past), Yun Zhao understood the Blue-Eyed Fox's suffering, and she quickly comforted it, "It's alright, it's alright, it's just that you've worked for tens of thousands of years for nothing, it's not a big deal, now you've quit! You're free!"
Jade-Eyed Fox: "..."
The tonic keeps reminding me that I've wasted hundreds of thousands of years of my life on the wrong thing!
With things having come to this, the Azure Fox had no choice but to accept it. Fortunately, she gained her freedom by accident, which was some consolation.
The Azure-Eyed Fox had no idea where the memories came from, but it put that aside for now. The most important thing right now was to find those despicable humans!
To save time, the Azure-Eyed Fox invited Yun Zhao and Qi Yan to sit on its back. After a whirlwind of speed, it soon saw a magnificent building.
No, it's not a building, it should be called a ruin.
Standing on the back of the Azure-Eyed Fox, Yun Zhao gazed into the distance and asked, "Is that the ruins of the Spirit Void Palace?"
Calling it a ruin is not quite accurate. From this distance, the complex appears tall and magnificent, as if Lingxu Palace had never perished and still exists in the world.