Chapter 2523

Su Pu was still just an ordinary Dao Venerable 3rd Realm back then. Later, when the Heavenly Fox Ancestor established the Qingqiu Ancestral Land, Su Pu stayed in the Qingqiu Ancestral Land to cultivate alongside the Heavenly Fox Ancestor.

At the same time, he served the Heavenly Fox Ancestor. Back then, Great Dao Realm experts would often visit to sit and discuss the Dao with the Heavenly Fox Ancestor.

While he could only serve them from the side, he was incredibly envious of these Great Dao Realm experts. He hoped that one day he, too, could become a Great Dao Realm expert, so he cultivated diligently.

He marched toward his goal. The Heavenly Fox Ancestor possessed extremely formidable talent; after reaching the Great Dao Realm…

…he continued to move forward without stopping. The gap between Su Pu and the Heavenly Fox Ancestor, far from narrowing…

…only grew wider. Especially after the ancestor became a Seventh Realm Ancestor, Su Pu felt that he had reached his own limit.

The greatest achievement of his life would perhaps be the Ninth Realm of Dao Venerable. At that time, the Heavenly Fox Ancestor also told him bluntly that with his aptitude…

…the possibility of him stepping into the Great Dao Realm was extremely slim. However, Su Pu was unwilling to accept this.

Yet, despite his unwillingness, there was nothing he could do. This was because he was in the Qingqiu Ancestral Land, and because the Heavenly Fox Ancestor was also there.

He couldn't leave, and gradually, Su Pu's heart became twisted.

He began to hate the Heavenly Fox Ancestor. Later, a great war broke out, and the Heavenly Fox Ancestor had to leave the Qingqiu Ancestral Land.

Before leaving, the Heavenly Fox Ancestor did many things. He brought the entire Celestial Fox Clan into the Qingqiu Ancestral Land…

…and placed the Qingqiu Ancestral Land into a special space, far away from that great war. Finally…

…he enlightened the Spirit of the Ancestral Land, letting it manage the ancestral land, while appointing Su Pu as the first patriarch of the Celestial Fox Clan.

The Heavenly Fox Ancestor went to fight in the war and never returned. The Celestial Fox Clan reproduced generation after generation within the Qingqiu Ancestral Land…

…and their clan gradually grew stronger and more numerous. Later…

…the war ended, and the landscape of the Origin Continent underwent a massive change. The Qingqiu Ancestral Land also finally returned to the Origin Continent.

Following the Heavenly Fox Ancestor's prior arrangements, after the war ended, the Spirit of the Ancestral Land…

…teleported all the Celestial Fox Clan members in the Qingqiu Ancestral Land back to the Origin Continent, which became the present-day Celestial Fox Clan. At that time…

…Su Pu, who was already at the Ninth Realm of Dao Venerable, knew his chance had come. The war had just ended…

…and many legacies of Great Dao Realm experts remained in the Origin Continent. Alone, he embarked on a path to seek opportunities.

He traveled across the lands of the Four Continents and even went beyond the heavens, where he eventually encountered Black Blood.

Black Blood came from the Black Blood World, barely surviving that great war and hiding in a dark corner…

…seeking to resurrect once more one day. Black Blood used its last remaining strength to bewitch Su Pu.

Su Pu had an obsession with the Great Dao Realm in his heart. Black Blood magnified his obsession, and the power from the Black Blood World corrupted Su Pu.

Although it allowed him to successfully step into the Pseudo-Great Dao Realm, it also made him pay a huge price. The greatest price…

…was not a damaged soul, but rather that Su Pu had abandoned his own Dao. Therefore, during the battle in the ancestral land…

…Su Pu had not used his Dao of Metal and Fire from start to finish. After hearing Su Pu's story, Lin Moyu sighed inwardly.

This was the power of obsession. In truth, the Heavenly Fox Ancestor had already left a path for Su Pu; as long as he developed the Celestial Fox Clan well…

…and gathered the destiny of the Celestial Fox Clan, he would have had a chance to take another step forward. Back then, the war had just ended…

…and everything was waiting to be rebuilt, which was the best time to gather destiny. Moreover, the Celestial Fox Clan's abilities…

…were highly suited for this task. The simplest method was to collect origin spirit veins.

If his destiny was sufficient, even if Su Pu couldn't truly enter the Great Dao Realm, at least the Pseudo-Great Dao Realm would not have been a problem.

He could likewise have obtained eternal life without paying any price. What a pity…

…that Su Pu did not understand the Heavenly Fox Ancestor's painstaking efforts and ultimately met such an end. From Su Pu's mouth…

…Lin Moyu learned that behind several great demon clans, there had once been a Great Dao Realm ancestor. Those ancestors would often visit the Heavenly Fox Ancestor to discuss the Dao.

Su Pu had seen most of them, but those Great Dao Realm experts had basically all perished in that great war.

However, they had each left behind their own means to ensure their clans could continue as much as possible. As the ancestors of their respective clans…

…their clans were the continuation of their own bloodlines. As long as the clans remained, perhaps one day…

…they could return and resurrect in another way. The Heavenly Fox Ancestor had once taken him to travel all over the Nine Provinces.

In Su Pu's descriptions, the Origin Continent of those days was incomparably prosperous, with countless clans standing tall.

Lin Moyu caught a key point in Su Pu's words, "Are you saying that back then, the Buddhist Clan and the Insect Clan did not exist?"

Su Pu nodded and answered Lin Moyu's question truthfully, "No."

"Not only was there none before the war, but when I was searching for opportunities after the war, there was still none."

The absence of the Buddhist and Insect Clans was worth pondering. For such a thing to happen…

…there were only two possibilities. One was that the Buddhist and Insect Clans did not originate from the Origin Continent.

The other was that these two clans were later evolved from the living beings of the Origin Continent, or perhaps they were enemies.

Both possibilities existed. However, the Great Dao currently showed no aversion toward the Buddhist and Insect Clans, indicating that they were not enemies of the Great Dao. Unfortunately…

…Su Pu had not experienced that great war back then and was not clear about the details of the prehistoric war. It seemed…

…that to know the detailed process of that war, one still had to ask those in the Great Dao Realm. Unfortunately, the Great Dao Realm experts who survived the war…

…had all left the Origin Continent. Neither the Three Ancestors nor the Demon Emperor would speak of it. Lin Moyu thought of a good idea.

That was to find a way to kill Master Kurong of the Hundred Herbs Alliance, and then turn him into a Revenant. That way, he could ask whatever he wanted to know.

As a Great Dao Realm expert who had survived that prehistoric catastrophe, Master Kurong must know a great deal.

It would be much better than asking the Three Ancestors and the Demon Emperor, who would only give hesitant and evasive answers.

However, to turn Master Kurong into a Revenant required certain prerequisites. The spell level of Resurrection of the Dead still needed to be further improved.

Lin Moyu estimated that he would at least need to become a Seventh Realm Ancestor himself. In addition to that…

…there was also the most difficult point: killing Master Kurong. He was a genuine Great Dao Realm expert…

…and a plant-type Great Dao Realm expert at that, with incredibly astonishing vitality. To kill him…

…would be extremely difficult. For now, it was definitely impossible.

The exploration of prehistory could only be left for the future. Still, from Su Pu's mouth…

…he was not completely in the dark. Almost all of the demon ancestors had left behind backup plans…

…leaving behind seeds of resurrection. As for what method they would use to resurrect, it was unknown.

Great Dao Realm experts were hard to kill, and they did not want to die. Their desire to survive was far higher than that of ordinary cultivators.

Thus, they would try every possible means to leave opportunities for themselves in hopes of rebirth. Secondly…

…he also learned the name of that prehistoric war from Su Pu. The people of that time called it the Origin Catastrophe.

A single war had collapsed five of the Nine Provinces of the Origin Continent. It was an unprecedented, massive catastrophe.

"Origin Catastrophe… sooner or later, I will uncover everything about you."

Chapter 3196: Demon Emperor, That Guy Has Charged Over

"I'd like to see just what kind of background the mastermind behind the shattering of Hell has."

Lin Moyu put Su Pu away and was about to return to Nine-Tailed City when a powerful aura suddenly enveloped the entire valley.

A low, thunderous voice exploded within the valley, "I've finally found you!"

The entire valley was shrouded by a mysterious power.

The valley was sealed off, completely isolated from the outside, turning the valley into an independent world.

Lin Moyu's expression changed slightly. The owner of this voice was all too familiar. In the Ice and Fire Secret Realm…

…he had ruined the other party's plans, destroying years of meticulous planning. The Demon Emperor had even traveled all the way to the Western Continent…

…to personally injure him, forging a deadly feud between them. Lin Moyu let out a cold laugh.

"Master Kurong, I didn't expect you to track me down so quickly. It seems the Demon Emperor didn't strike hard enough."

He naturally knew that the Demon Emperor's strike couldn't have been light. The real reason Master Kurong could recover so quickly…

…was because he was a plant-type Great Dao Realm expert. The Demon Emperor had probably used himself as a benchmark. Heh!

Master Kurong sneered repeatedly. Along with his laughter, the temperature in the valley began to drop sharply.

Lin Moyu asked, "Aren't you afraid the Demon Emperor will come looking for trouble with you again if you cross over like this?"

Master Kurong laughed, "This master admits to being inferior to the Demon Emperor, but if the Demon Emperor wants to kill me…"

"…that is also a pipe dream. If this master risks his life, the price is not something even the Demon Emperor can bear."

He spoke with utter confidence. The Demon Emperor was indeed stronger than him, but so what?

The Demon Emperor could at most injure him. If he fought with his life on the line, the Demon Emperor would likely also face great trouble.

They were both Great Dao Realm experts; who was truly afraid of whom?

Lin Moyu's gaze turned gloomy.

He looked as though he had been frightened by Master Kurong's words. "So, Master, you traveled billions of miles to personally kill me?"

Master Kurong said in a low voice, "Otherwise?"

"You are a mere ant…"

"…yet you dared to ruin this master's plans. Don't you deserve to die?" Lin Moyu said,

"That was merely a coincidence, a misunderstanding. I can use an ice-fire dao stone…"

"…as compensation to put this matter behind us. What do you think?"

"You have an ice-fire dao stone?"

"Obtained from the Ice and Fire Secret Realm?"

Hearing of the ice-fire dao stone, Master Kurong's voice clearly changed.

He had plotted for the Ice and Fire Secret Realm precisely for the ice-fire dao stone. Although his plan had been ruined by Lin Moyu…

…if he could obtain the ice-fire dao stone from Lin Moyu's hands, it wouldn't be unacceptable. Lin Moyu said,

"This junior was also fortunate enough to obtain an ice-fire dao stone from the Ice and Fire Secret Realm. If it can be used to resolve the misunderstanding with you, Master, this junior feels it is not out of the question."

Master Kurong fell silent, clearly considering Lin Moyu's words. Lin Moyu took this opportunity…

…to carefully sense Master Kurong's condition. He needed to know if Master Kurong's injuries had fully healed and if the one arriving now was his true body.

From this, he could calculate whether he had the power to resist. Also, regarding the isolation of this valley's heaven and earth, was it completely severed…

…or was there still some gap of opportunity? Could the demon emperor flower still take effect? Every single detail…

…actually decided the direction of the subsequent events. His powerful spiritual sense once again gave Lin Moyu a pleasant surprise.

Although Master Kurong did not show himself, Lin Moyu could still sense his presence. Combining this with the Eye of the Undead…

…he determined Master Kurong's true situation. Master Kurong had not come in his true body, but rather a clone.

This clone was very strong, stronger than the previous seed of the Ice and Fire Dao Tree, surpassing the Ninth Realm of Dao Venerable.

Yet, it fell short of the Great Dao Realm and was even inferior to the Pseudo-Great Dao Realm. In this case…

…deploying the Revenant Su Pu should be enough to cope. Even if they couldn't win…

…at least survival would not be an issue. With this judgment, Lin Moyu felt immensely reassured.

The remaining details became even easier to deduce. Why did Master Kurong send a clone over…

…instead of coming himself? First, he was certainly afraid of being discovered by the Demon Emperor, as the movements of a Great Dao Realm expert would not be small.

It would be difficult to hide from the Demon Emperor. Second, his injuries might not have healed yet, and he was still recovering.

His true body was not suited to take action. Yet, at the same time, Master Kurong did not want to let Lin Moyu off easily.

So he sent one of his clones to secretly search for Lin Moyu's whereabouts in the Northern Continent, looking for an opportunity to kill him.

After a moment of silence, Master Kurong said in a low voice, "One ice-fire dao stone is not enough. To think you can buy your life with just one…"

"…you are dreaming too big." From Master Kurong's words, Lin Moyu heard another layer of meaning.

Half of Master Kurong's words were a probe, testing exactly how many ice-fire dao stones he possessed. With a flicker of his eyes…

…he immediately asked, "Then how many do you want?"