SFS Chapter 854 The North (6)
Chapter 854 The North (6)
Chapter 854 The North (Part 6)
“Let me explain…” Kama stepped forward and gave a Buddhist salute. “Please don’t take offense, young friend. I just wanted to scare you a little, I meant no harm.”
He also possessed special means to resist demonic influence. The skull rosary hanging around his neck was emitting a pale white light, and the demonic energy was absorbed by the rosary before it could even get close.
"Just say it. No need for nonsense." Han Yi didn't seem to care.
He could naturally tell whether it was a malicious intent or a joke.
The other party was clearly after the demonic energy, wanting to purify it and wake him up. They might have had some ulterior motives, but their intentions weren't bad.
“What is sealed here… is the Demon Lord…” Kama slowly began, “To be precise…” “The Demon Lord?!”
Han Yi's eyelids twitched violently, his mind trembled, and he suddenly spoke.
Without hesitation, he flashed away, retreating dozens of meters in an instant.
No wonder Han Yi was so shocked.
In the demon race today, he would be considered a Demon King, and even dealing with a half-crippled Demon King would require him to use most of his abilities.
And the Demon Lord…
The vast and boundless demon realm, without boundaries or end...
From the deepest abyss to the outermost scorched earth... countless races live in each layer.
Every race in the Demon Realm—the Original Demons, the Parasitic Demons, the Fallen Demons, and even the Ancient Demons—has a Demon King. But the entire Demon Realm has only four Demon Lords.
The Four Pillars of the Demon Realm, Lords of the Demon Race.
The four demon lords, each ruling one of the four corners, jointly control the demon realm.
Its terrifying, powerful, and abnormal strength is unimaginable.
no doubt.
If Han Yi were to confront the Demon Lord now, he would surely die; it would be like delivering himself into someone else's hands.
"Are you kidding me? Your Shouyi Temple... has this ability?! To seal the Demon Lord?!?"
Han Yi stood at a distance, warily watching the forbidden area, ready to slip away at the slightest mishap.
What a joke.
If there really is a demon lord sealed here, and in a state where he could break free at any moment...
Even a hundred lives wouldn't be enough. Even if he could absorb demonic energy, it all depended on who his target was.
A being at the level of a Demon Lord would probably just stand still and let him absorb it...
Even if you try to force him, you could also overeat him and kill him.
"Young friend, don't be nervous, let me finish..." Kama sighed and began to explain, "To be precise, what's sealed is one of the Demon Lord's arms..."
"Demon Lord? Arm?" Han Yi frowned, and now that he heard that, he understood a little.
No wonder even a trace of demonic energy could affect him; apart from the Demon Lord, no other being could possess such power.
"But... how did the Demon Lord's arm end up here... someone has to cut it off, right?" On second thought, a new question immediately arose.
How many powerful beings at the level of a Demon Lord are there in the entire world?
Could there be one within the Yuanmiao Sect? Or perhaps one from a bloodline family?
And the North?
Every powerful being at the Demon Lord level is a force that suppresses destiny and is the guarantee for the long-term continuation and continuous inheritance of their respective power.
"It was my master... and the three patriarchs of the Yuanmiao Sect who jointly severed one of my arms..." Yuanjue slowly recounted as he recovered his senses, "Decades ago... there was also a demonic calamity in Yunzhou... At that time... a demon lord crossed realms and intervened... with an immense power that destroyed everything..."
“At that time… Master wouldn’t have died… It’s all Yuanmiaozong’s fault…” Yuanjue’s expression suddenly turned extremely painful.
He lowered his head, his hands clenched tightly, and his body trembled slightly uncontrollably.
"I really... really don't want to recall that day..."
There were corpses everywhere.
The blood-red beams were covered with bits of meat.
The magnificent golden statue was stained with a layer of blood red.
Dark red blood seeped from the countless corpses piled up on top of each other, flowing down the slope, creating a waterfall of blood across the entire Shouyi Temple mountain.
The monster corpses lay scattered haphazardly, splattered with blue, black, and red blood.
It's like an oil painting created through impromptu ink splashes.
The color scheme is dark, and the styles are quite different.
It's a clear picture of hell.
“Yuanmiao Sect… if it weren’t for their broken promises…” Yuanjue’s pupils glistened faintly, “the conspiracy… it was all their conspiracy!”
A pact had been made with Yuanmiao Sect, but their help has been slow to arrive…
They waited until the very last moment.
The Yuanmiao Sect, arriving late, joined forces to block the Demon Lord's cross-realm attack.
But his master, after endless battles, was already exhausted and powerless to turn the tide.
"I see..." Han Yi said thoughtfully, "It is said that the story of the master's severed arm is buried under the stone tablet in front of the gate of Shouyi Temple..."
"It's just a misconception," Yuanjue sighed. "The severed arm originally referred to the Demon Lord's severed arm in the seal, but somehow it became mine..."
"So it was this incident that led to a disagreement among you fellow disciples, coupled with the interference of outsiders, ultimately resulting in a break and the dispersal of the true scriptures?" Han Yi pressed.
“That’s pretty much how it is,” Yuanjue said painfully. “We all think… we’re the only ones who are right…” in the apocalyptic scene.
What impressed me most were those pairs of eyes that were both unwilling and lifeless.
Elders, senior brothers, junior brothers...
His master, the previous abbot of Shouyi Temple, Master Jialuo, passed away.
Nearly 70% of Shouyi Temple's strength perished in the last demonic calamity.
They paid a devastating price, which amounted to total annihilation.
Finally, they blocked the Demon Lord's attack, and the demonic calamity came to an end.
The subsequent series of impacts were equally enormous.
Kama changed his mind, believing that Buddha was inferior to demons and that power was everything, and turned to the demonic path, becoming a demonic cultivator.
Yuanjue took over the ruined Shouyi Temple and persevered until today.
The two parted ways. From then on, Shouyi Temple gradually declined and never regained its former glory.
"When we discovered that the scattered scriptures had appeared in the Yuanmiao Sect, we both regretted our actions and realized that we had been deceived and had fallen into a trap."
Gamo smiled bitterly and said, "Perhaps the Yuanmiao Sect played a role in this, but there are also internal reasons, such as obsession, external desires, and anger... No one can say for sure why things have come to this."
He sighed and continued, "When the forbidden area was affected by the celestial phenomena and anomalies occurred, causing the balance to be disrupted, only half of the true scripture remained, which was no longer enough to maintain the seal."
Therefore… the Yuanmiao Sect offered the True Scripture as a bounty on your Ten Thousand Beasts Sect… we had no choice but to obey their orders…”
The Two Extremes Marrow Severing True Scripture, as the treasure left by the founder of Shouyi Temple, is not just a simple martial arts inheritance.
The complete scripture is also an extremely powerful magic artifact for suppressing evil. Before the calamity was foreshadowed, half of the scripture might still be able to maintain the suppression.
After that, the Demon Lord's constant calls made the severed arm in the forbidden area more and more active, and the seal could no longer hold up.
If the demonic energy is not channeled and alleviated, it will eventually burst its banks.
"Then why didn't you directly confront Yuanmiao Sect?" Han Yi pressed. "If the forbidden area gets out of control, the Demon Lord breaks the seal with his severed arm, and causes chaos, wreaking havoc on Yunzhou, I think... Yuanmiao Sect wouldn't want to see that happen, would they?"
Yunzhou, after all, was the Yunzhou of Emperor Yuanmiaozong.
If something goes wrong at Shouyi Temple and they are unable to resolve it, the final trouble will still need to be dealt with by Yuanmiaozong.
"We did say... but they didn't say they wouldn't do anything, they just told us to persevere." Yuanjue's voice was filled with anger, his eyes flashing with hatred. "But... how long can we persevere? Perhaps for the Yuanmiao Sect, the loss of control over the forbidden area is at most a severed arm... but for our Shouyi Temple... that would be annihilation... besides..."
He didn't voice some of his darker inner thoughts.
maybe.
The current situation is exactly what Yuanmiaozong wanted to see.
Cutting flesh with a dull knife to bleed it.
While weakening the Demon Lord's severed arm to the maximum extent, it can also gradually deplete the foundation of Shouyi Temple.
Just like last time.
When they could no longer hold on, Yuanmiaozong sent divine soldiers to their aid, and a savior appeared.
Completely resolve any future problems.
Including the Demon Lord's severed arm and the Shouyi Temple, two major troubles, let's deal with them all at once. "I understand..." A look of sudden realization flashed in Han Yi's eyes, and he completely understood everything.
No wonder Yuanjue Temple was unwilling to hand over the true scriptures, no wonder Shouyi Temple suffered a generational gap, no wonder Yuanmiao Sect's attitude was strange...
He had been acting strangely ever since he entered Shouyi Temple.
I always feel that it doesn't live up to its reputation.
As a martial arts holy land that once rivaled the Yuanmiao Sect for supremacy, this is not how it should behave.
This does not mean that Shouyi Temple was weak overall.
There are high-level combatants at the Venerable level, and there are also low-level disciples at the Grandmaster and Martial Master levels. However, there are fewer high-level individuals at the middle level who serve as the backbone of the organization.
To put it simply, there's a gap in the supply chain, a break in the continuity of knowledge and skills.
During the last demonic calamity, few of the future high-ranking officials who were in the same batch as Yuanjue survived.
This strange event in the forbidden area has once again wiped out the newly cultivated generation of new blood.
It's no wonder that Yuanjue and Jiamo always seemed to be resigned to death while clinging to hope.
Even if Shouyi Temple can successfully resolve the troubles in the forbidden area this time.
However, among the remaining disciples, there were only a few, big and small, and no potential.
If Yuanjue's generation can maintain the sect and avoid becoming a third-rate force when they all grow old, that would be considered quite good.
There was also Yuanmiaozong.
Despite having a significant conflict with Shouyiji, he never actually confronted him; instead, he pressured, exploited, and constantly created stress.
It's because it's a forbidden area.
With the sealed Demon Lord's severed arm protected by Shouyi Temple, Yuanmiao Sect naturally wouldn't let it fall easily. "Since that's the case..." Han Yi pondered for a moment, "Let's go together. If you're willing, you can travel to the Northern Lands together. The mess here... we'll leave it to Yuanmiao Sect to handle."
“The North?” Yuanjue paused for a moment, then shook his head and refused. “We can’t leave. If even we leave, who will take care of these 3,672 tombs? They… have given everything. We can’t leave without even someone to talk to or pull weeds…”
“Senior brother is right…” Kama glanced at the stone towers, his voice tinged with sorrow, “Someone has to stay and keep them company. Otherwise, they would be truly lonely and desolate…”
A chilling wind blew intermittently, creating an eerie atmosphere, and the temperature plummeted.
In the vast forbidden area, there were only three living people, including Han Yi. The chilling aura emanating from all directions was faintly bone-chilling.
the strange thing is.
The flags planted on the ground slowly drooped down, completely unaffected by the airflow.
Sizzle sizzle…
Suddenly, clusters of warm white light shone from within the stone towers.
The white lights intertwined, flashing and extinguishing one after another, merging into one.
Suddenly, a great light shone brightly in the forbidden area, and the gathered white light vaguely transformed into a majestic and vast Buddha, which shattered the black wind the moment it appeared.
The airflow dissipated, disappearing without a trace.
The cold and gloomy atmosphere within the forbidden area was swept away, and light returned.
Clearly, the eminent monks who died at Shouyi Temple throughout history were all buried in this forbidden area.
so…...
Neither of them could leave, nor did they want to leave.
Kama remained silent for a moment, as if recalling something. When he finally looked up, his expression was resolute. "It's getting late, young friend. You should leave now. The scriptures... and everything else I can give you, I will give you."
"Yuanmiao Sect...we will also try to delay for you...our only request is that you help take some people away. As long as you help them leave Yunzhou, you don't need to worry about the rest."
Just because the two of them aren't leaving doesn't mean others can't leave either.
No one can see what the future holds.
While the two of them can still hold on, they must find a way out for Shouyi Temple.
A large-scale relocation like that of the Myriad Beasts Sect is somewhat unrealistic.
However, sending a small number of promising talents out in time to continue the legacy of Shouyi Temple in other places is also a wise move.