HCB Chapter 197 First Encounter with the Big Black Dog
Chapter 197 First Encounter with the Big Black Dog
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a month has passed.
"The guiding ritual is complete!"
On this day, on Mount Tianlang, Princess Zhuiyue of the Tianlang clan, along with six other celestial maidens, awoke together.
The Great Sage's Dao Formation had exhausted all its power, and the precious bones left behind by the Great Sage had all cracked and their Daoist essence had completely disappeared.
"Thank you, Princess!"
"Thank you so much, sister!"
Fairy Tianxia and the others all thanked Princess Zhuiyue, saying it was truly a great favor.
"Sisters, there's no need for such formalities. Zhuiyue is doing all this simply because she doesn't want to delay her husband's affairs."
Princess Zhuiyue smiled slightly.
However, Fairy Tianxia, Jiu Xin and other women were all surprised. Could it be that Princess Zhuiyue had really fallen in love with Li Lan?
Princess Zhuiyue isn't a fool like Bai Ruoling, who would take out the invaluable Great Sage Dao Formation just to help Li Lan?
“Go and invite your husband.”
Princess Zhuiyue spoke calmly.
……
Not long after.
Li Lan has arrived.
Princess Zhuiyue and the other seven celestial maidens were all present.
“My lord, we have mastered the coordinate method and are ready to guide you.”
Princess Zhuiyue spoke.
"it is good!"
Li Lan was also invigorated. He had been constantly reflecting and reviewing this month, and now he could finally verify it.
"Sisters, let's unleash the coordinate technique together!"
Princess Zhuiyue spoke.
The other six girls also dared not be negligent at this moment, and solemnly closed their eyes to activate the coordinate method.
They were married off by the decree of the Origin Realm, so they had some understanding of the guiding method. They all knew that whether the guiding was successful today would not only determine the rise and fall of the entire Abyss Clan, but also the future direction of all living beings in the Immortal Realm!
With the combined efforts of the seven, a vast fragment of spacetime and a blurred gate of time suddenly appeared!
Li Lan sensed that the causal bond between him and the seven women was much weaker than that between him and Long Bao, since they were only husband and wife in name only.
But it's enough for us.
He activated the guiding technique and stepped into space-time.
The Time-Space Path appears beneath our feet.
This time, seven flames of bloodline inheritance appeared, and Li Lan followed the seven flames forward.
"Why do these resentful spirits seem much more agitated than last time?"
Not long after they went deeper, one after another, the resentful spirits of time rushed towards Li Lan!
Just like last time, the myriad souls were wailing, as if they had fallen into a sea of suffering and could not struggle. But Li Lan resisted with great willpower and made a vow in the long river of time. In the end, these resentful souls of the past years were all put to peace.
But he has also borne these burdens, becoming entangled in his karma. If he ultimately fails to fulfill his vow, he will suffer a terrifying backlash.
"Can one attain peace by making a vow?"
Returning to the path of time, a question flashed through Li Lan's mind.
If that's the case, surely those beings in the Origin Realm wouldn't be afraid to try the guiding method? At worst, they could just make a vow like Li Lan did first.
Those beings with such a strong desire to live, how could they not fight with all their might? There must be other unknown reasons behind this.
But we can't worry about that now.
He continued forward, and before long, a space-time continuum appeared before him.
Seven flames drifted in.
Li Lan stepped inside.
"This is... the Immortal Realm?!"
This time, what came into Li Lan's eyes was actually a familiar world!
He saw the northern border and central continent of the Immortal Realm, which were not much different from the current Immortal Realm. However, the current rulers of this world are the various ancient races!
Human cities were almost nowhere to be seen; instead, the land was filled with the cities of various forbidden races. As he walked across the land, he saw that humans were still living in the wilderness, eating raw meat and drinking blood, and were still in the stage of tribal civilization. Some humans were even domesticated, no different from livestock.
Li Lan made a guess, and based on the historical records of the Immortal Realm, this era should belong to 30,000 to 50,000 years ago!
This timeline is probably hundreds of thousands of years later than the one he arrived at last.
Because, the last time Li Lan searched for the ancestor of the true dragon, the human race had not even been born in that era.
Although he saw the suffering of the human race, Li Lan walked past in silence. This era was history that had already happened, and he could not change it.
Those humans who were slaughtered had no causal connection with Li Lan, so he couldn't help them even if he wanted to.
From a certain direction in Zhongzhou, Li Lan sensed a powerful fluctuation and immediately rushed there.
"Humanity Mountain!"
Li Lan was somewhat surprised to see a great battle erupting in the direction of Rendao Mountain.
"The Stone Clan has attempted to protect the human race and is at odds with many of our forbidden races. They deserve to die!"
"What doomsday calamity? It's all fabricated by the Stone Clan. They want us to give up human blood offerings? Absolutely not!"
"kill!"
Various shouts of battle rang out, and powerful magical techniques were unleashed.
Li Lan took a closer look and realized that this battle was actually an internal war among the Forbidden Clan!
The forces of ten major races, including the White Tiger, Black Tortoise, Five Elements Heavenly Kui, and Primordial Heavenly Wolf, are guarding Mount Rendao, while other forbidden races in the world, such as the Primordial Demon Ape Clan, Yaksha Clan, Fei Yi, and Bi An, are launching a frenzied siege.
"Humans have always been the food of all races, born lowly to nourish all things. The Stone Race has a connection with humans and we want to protect them. The Ten Races are our forbidden race, why should we collude with them?"
Among the Bi'an tribe, a celestial being loudly questioned.
"wrong!"
However, in the Human Path Mountain, a Celestial Venerable of the White Tiger Clan stepped forward and said, "The Stone Clan is not only protecting the human race, but also protecting all races!"
"An emperor of the Stone Clan foresaw the future: a great calamity is about to befall all living beings, but within the human race, a future generation will reverse everything and create a pure land for all living beings... Now, the Stone Clan emperor is plotting the great cause of all living beings with the Ten Clans Celestial Venerables, yet you all wage war for your own selfish desires. Don't you think that's going too far?"
Upon hearing this, the experts from other races roared angrily.
"Nonsense! The immortal realm is thriving, with all races rising together. How could there be any great calamity?"
"Yes, that's alarmist!"
"Even if there is any calamity, my myriad races can quell it ourselves. Who would believe that a savior would come from a lowly human race!"
The various ethnic groups simply do not believe it.
Although all races are strong, they are inherently flawed and need to be replenished with human blood. However, the Stone Race and the Ten Great Races actually want to give the Human Race an equal status with all other races from now on. How can the other races tolerate this?
The bloody battle broke out again, and even though the ten clans were strong, they were now almost unable to hold on.
As Li Lan approached, he saw a stone figure sitting cross-legged in the center of Mount Rendao. Beside him sat ten Heavenly Venerables, eleven people silently deducing something.
"Disaster is imminent."
The Great Emperor of the Stone Clan suddenly spoke, saying, "White Tiger, Black Tortoise, Azure Phoenix... the descendants of you seven have come to guide you!"
Upon hearing this, the seven Celestial Venerables beside him were all taken aback.
"Come on!"
The Great Emperor of the Stone Clan roared, "The light of the future has arrived; this generation will perish—"
He had barely finished speaking.
Boom!
In an instant, the heavens trembled, the entire immortal realm was impacted, and a monstrous aura swept across the eight wastelands.
The world was filled with raging winds and torrential rain, thunder and lightning, earth-shaking tremors, and the spiritual energy was in complete chaos, like a tsunami!
It felt like the end of the world.
"what happened?"
"what happened?"
Is the Immortal Realm about to be destroyed?
Even the great battle taking place outside the Humanity Mountain has stopped, and all living beings are looking at the world with fear.
"What is that...?"
"Gray fog!"
Someone cried out, and saw that outside the Immortal Realm, endless gray fog swept in, covering the sky and the earth. Wherever it went, the rules of the Immortal Realm collapsed, the earth split into pieces, and all living beings touched by the gray fog died instantly and turned into withered corpses...
Apocalyptic gray fog!
Even Li Lan's pupils shrank at this moment!
Last time he had some doubts, but this time he was almost certain.
Were those gray fogs really attracted by his appearance?
This life was destroyed, belonging to a bygone era. He came from the future to guide the beings of this life.
But it was precisely because of his arrival that this world was destroyed?!
He was the cause of his coming to guide the true ancestors of all races in this world, yet his coming also became the cause of the destruction of this world!
The cause and effect are now indistinguishable!
"wrong!"
But at that moment, a thought flashed through Li Lan's mind.
This life is not far removed from the one they lived in.
However, in later generations, the Immortal Realm still exists, and the various forbidden races still have remnants, which means that this world should not have been completely destroyed.
Has that person appeared?
A hint of anticipation flashed in Li Lan's heart as he gazed into the depths of the gray fog, activating his Heavenly Eye. But this time, he did not see the terrifying black hand.
"Woof woof woof woof--"
Suddenly, a deafening bark of dogs resounded throughout the heavens!
A terrifying, large black dog burst out of the gray fog!
Its power was in no way weaker than the terrifying black hand that Li Lan had seen before. With every step it took, all kinds of rules collapsed. Even a single dog hair could shake the Great Dao, and a single bark from a dog was enough to shatter the heavens.
It's hard to imagine that there could be beings of this caliber in this world.
It seemed that even the celestial realm could not withstand its existence!
The dog was the size of a small mountain, with bloodshot eyes and white fur. It looked old and had an overwhelming ferocity. It was incredibly mad, devouring everything, and had lost all its divinity!
"Is this...the legendary dog?"
"It once followed that one who suppressed the source for hundreds of thousands of years, but in the end it still failed, and it has become something within the Origin Realm!"
"careful!"
On Mount Rendao, the strongest warriors of all races were shocked.
In the Immortal Realm, powerful beings also flew out to try to stop it, but before that black dog, even the Great Sage was like an ant and the Immortal Venerable was like a moth. All their attacks vanished in front of it. In fact, just getting close to it caused the Great Sage to cough up blood and die from the shock of its ferocious aura!
It is utterly impossible to stop or resist.
"The Stone Golems are right, there really is a cataclysmic disaster!"
"What should we do? Who can save us?"
"Where is the savior the Stone Golems spoke of? Where is he?!"
At this moment, chaos erupted. People from all the forbidden clans fled, but the world was dark and overturned, leaving them nowhere to go.
"Fellow Daoists, you may proceed first—"
On Mount Rendao, the Great Emperor of the Stone Clan spoke calmly. He bowed slightly in the direction of Li Lan and said, "I will trouble you with the calamities of the future."
He had already sensed Li Lan's arrival!
"senior……"
Li Lan appeared, wanting to ask countless questions, but the Stone Clan Emperor shook his head: "No need to ask any more."
“Our time has not yet come to an end, young friend, you may take them away.”
The many Celestial Venerables from the White Tiger Clan, Black Tortoise Clan, and others nearby were all shocked. It was astonishing that someone in later generations could actually go against the tide.