“My Lord, please calm your anger! The situation was extremely critical. If we hadn’t been rescued in time, and given that our Miao village is located deep in the mountains with harsh conditions, good hospitals and doctors are far away. Moreover, we Miao people don’t rely on doctors for medical treatment; we have shamans who treat us, and I am one of our tribe’s shamans. I could see that without timely rescue, both mother and child could have died. So, in the end, I had no choice but to resort to this method!” Chi Zhen said in a panic.
"Are you really that confident?" Li Yang said helplessly. No matter what, this person was his and his mother's savior, and he shouldn't lose his temper with them.
"No. But at that time, I suddenly felt such a strong impulse and feeling. I think I was guided by the Holy Ancestor and had to do this. As a result, I succeeded and waited for the Holy Lord here eighteen years later~" Chi Zhen said excitedly.
"Alright. Then can I go see Chi You's tomb?" Li Yang said curiously, no longer pressing the matter.
"That's exactly what I'm going to take the Holy Lord there. Everything in the Holy Ancestor's tomb is waiting for the Holy Lord to unlock it!" Chi Zhen said eagerly. Li Yang understood his feelings. Something they had waited for for thousands of years was finally showing signs of becoming a reality; it would be strange if he weren't excited and thrilled.
"Really? Then I'll have to see for myself!" Li Yang nodded and said. Following Chi Zhen, they entered a strange road and arrived at a very strange place, a magnificent stone chamber behind the main village. The marks of time on the thick rocks revealed its extraordinary origin and status.
Chi Zhen walked over and placed his hands on a rather inconspicuous spot. The ordinary, huge, thick stone surface had nothing special about it; you couldn't find any trace of a door. It seemed to be just a huge, doorless dome. But when Chi Zhen placed his hands on it, and moved slightly, something seemed to emerge from his hands. At the same time, he muttered some strange words that Li Yang couldn't understand.
But at that moment, seemingly unremarkable, ripples suddenly spread across the vast market. Like a reaction on water, the ripples grew larger and larger, eventually opening up like a waterfall, revealing a dark, gaping opening like the maw of a giant beast ready to devour someone. A wave of intense heat rushed out, accompanied by a powerful, oppressive aura. Li Yang's mind jolted, and he immediately channeled all his inner strength to resist, but it had little effect. At least he managed to avoid kneeling on the ground; otherwise, he, as the Holy Lord, would have been utterly humiliated. Even Chi Zhen, a mere servant, stood firmly at the entrance; how could he possibly kneel?
"Holy Lord, follow me~" Chi Zhen went in first, while Xiao Bai poked its head out of Li Yang's pocket, looking around curiously.
"I haven't yet asked for the Holy Lord's name," Chi Zhen asked respectfully.
“My name is Li Yang – Li as in the character for ‘wood,’ and Yang as in ‘flying’!” Li Yang replied.
Suddenly, a red light appeared ahead, illuminating a short passage that emitted a pink glow. The powerful force grew stronger, pressing down on Li Yang so much that he could hardly move forward. Although Li Yang could see clearly, under this red light, he felt as if he couldn't see anything.
"What is that? It's amazing!" Li Yang exclaimed inwardly.
"It should be related to Chi You," Xiao Bai guessed.
"Aren't you only at the mental age of a teenager? How do you know so much?" Li Yang couldn't help but tease. Damn it, it's like I'm useless. It's not good to criticize an old person; I'd rather bully a little girl.
"What business is it of yours how old I am? I've lived this long, my memory hasn't declined, and even if my intelligence isn't great, I have plenty of time to think! Can you do that?" Xiao Bai's pride was hurt by Li Yang, and she immediately became indignant. This is really unbearable!
"I can't!" Li Yang immediately begged for mercy, fearing that if he angered the white snake, it might grow bigger and swallow him whole before dumping him into the field as fertilizer.
"What a huge pool of blood! Is it really full of fresh blood?" Li Yang exclaimed in amazement as a huge pool of blood suddenly appeared before him.
“Indeed, it’s all essence and blood. It’s transformed from the sacred body of the Holy Ancestor Chi You.” Chi Zhen said respectfully.
Li Yang looked around and found himself in a huge space filled with mystery. The walls were covered with all sorts of strange patterns and characters. In front of one wall were memorial tablets, presumably those of the guardians of the descendants of Chi You and the Jiuli tribe, with Chi You's tablet placed first.
Afterwards, within this enormous stone tomb, Li Yang found nothing more unusual. Where were the witchcraft, martial arts, divine weapons, and Gu techniques the old man had mentioned? Were they just empty words to save face? He activated his X-ray vision, searching everywhere, only to discover that it had malfunctioned for the first time. This shocked him greatly. Outside, his X-ray vision was infallible; no matter how a beautiful woman's clothes concealed her vision, they couldn't hide it. But here, it had failed him repeatedly. First, his eyes couldn't see through the red light, and then his X-ray vision stopped working. Damn, this place was too eerie. He slowly developed a sense of awe for Chi You, no longer daring to underestimate him in the slightest.
"You used the essence blood from this blood pool to heal my mother back then?" Li Yang looked at the churning blood pool. The scarlet blood exuded an astonishing pressure. Just looking at it gave him the feeling that his soul was about to be sucked away. If it weren't for his peculiar eyes and the fact that he was constantly circulating his internal energy at full power, he would have been affected long ago.
"Indeed, it's just a drop of the Holy Ancestor's essence blood," Chi Zhen said respectfully. Suddenly, his men walked to the memorial tablet, knelt down, and kowtowed three times.
"Holy Lord, please come and pay your respects to the Holy Ancestor. Then I will awaken your bloodline~" Chi Zhen said to Li Yang as he turned around.
"Me?" Although Li Yang didn't understand what was going on, since he had acknowledged that he was someone else's Holy Lord, and had eaten and drunk his fill, arrived here, and witnessed many miraculous things, Li Yang did not hesitate and immediately went over and knelt down.
Chapter 772: The Great Mission
"How do I wake him up?" Li Yang was still very curious. He found the strange situation inside his body unbelievable and wanted to know the reason behind it.
"Awakening your bloodline depends on the Blood Pool. Since you are the inheritor of the Holy Ancestor, this essence blood of the Holy Ancestor will eventually be yours. Only you can use it and inherit the Holy Ancestor's powerful strength. However, your body is still somewhat weak and cannot inherit such powerful strength. I'm afraid that if the power of that drop of essence blood were to erupt, it would be enough for you to absorb! Now, put your hand into the Blood Pool~" Chi Zhen said seriously.
"Put it into the blood pool?" Li Yang hesitated for a moment but still did as he was told. After all, he also wanted to know what he would be like if the bloodline of Chi You were to awaken!
But when Li Yang endured the immense pressure and dipped his hand into the blood pool, he felt a tremendous tremor throughout his body, especially in his mind, which felt as if it had been struck by a hammer. The intense pain made him feel as if he were floating in a vast ocean, powerless to resist. The pain in his mind disappeared after a moment, replaced by a magnificent scene. It was a scene of the most primitive and desolate time. He almost immediately understood that it was during the primordial era, and the scene was a scene of a fierce battle. A towering, long-haired man exuded earth-shattering power, and a pair of blood-red wings radiated boundless magic. Behind him were countless elite Jiuli disciples, many of whom also wore such blood-red wings, flying behind the man, their blood-red eyes staring at the surging crowd opposite them. On the other side were two middle-aged men, one riding a yellow dragon and the other riding a chariot, with their subjects behind them carrying various weapons. They looked fierce and fearless as they fought against the disheveled man's men.
Li Yang understood almost immediately that the Battle of Zhuolu, which took place in ancient times, was a battle in which the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor joined forces to fight against Chi You and compete for the rule of this vast land. This Yanhuang continent was fertile and vast, and was the most suitable place for human habitation.
A great battle inevitably broke out, fierce yet filled with an indomitable spirit. In the end, Chi You was forced to retreat, and his people fled in all directions. Many with wings fled westward into the boundless western world, while the rest scattered and disappeared into the dense forests and high mountains. Those who did not escape were all slaughtered. Nothing remained.
Chi You, however, did not die in battle. Instead, he committed suicide in a special place in the southwestern mountains, in a tomb he had prepared for himself before the battle began. His body remained in the coffin he had prepared long ago. When the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor arrived there, they saw Chi You's preparations and tomb. They exchanged a glance, shook their heads, and left.
The tomb of Chi You was preserved, and some of the scattered Jiuli people found it, stayed, and multiplied, eventually forming the Miao village we know today. This scene seems to take a long time to describe, and is very long and complicated, but while it appears slow in Li Yang's mind, it seems extremely fast in Chi Zhen's eyes.
Unbeknownst to Li Yang, the moment his hand entered the blood pool, the entire pool suddenly boiled. He closed his eyes, seemingly falling into a coma, his body enveloped in the boiling Chi You essence blood. He was suspended above the blood pool, completely engulfed by the boiling essence blood, his form no longer visible, only a humanoid mass of blood writhing. After a moment, a sound like a hatching shell seemed to ring out, and a pair of blood-red wings suddenly shot out from under Li Yang's ribs, carrying a blood-red light and strange patterns that resembled feathers, radiating strange power and fluctuations. At that moment, a strange fluctuation, seemingly weak yet possessing extremely strong vitality, spread to every corner of the world at a speed and range invisible to the naked eye. Instantly, many places, including the West and even the Americas, reacted, with streaks of blood-red light boiling up and flying in the air like bats in the night sky, emitting excited yet mournful cries.
However, Li Yang was unaware of all this. He was simply immersed in the images in his mind. When the images finally ended, Li Yang learned of Chi You's name and memorized all of Chi You's combat skills and martial arts. At the same time, he gradually regained consciousness. The essence blood in the blood pool did not seem to have decreased and was still slowly churning in the blood pool. Li Yang was completely naked and was suspended above the blood pool by a pair of huge, blood-red wings on his back that emitted strange energy fluctuations.
Her eyes suddenly snapped open, shooting out two beams of blood-red light. Chi Zhen knelt down with a thud, her whole body trembling, and she instantly broke out in a cold sweat. Even the powerful Xiao Bai, who possessed medicinal pills, couldn't help but tremble, curling up and lying on the ground, not daring to move, as if what stood before her was not a person, but an ancient demon god, forcing her to submit and leaving her unable to resist.
But that was only a fleeting feeling. When the blood-red light in Li Yang's eyes disappeared, the aura of an ancient demon god emanating from him vanished completely, leaving only Li Yang, whose strength was still astonishing. He was no different from usual, except that his muscles exuded an extremely perfect sense of power and beauty. The fluidity of his body was practically the golden ratio of human flesh. A physique that was entirely masculine gave him a strange and attractive charm. Even Xiao Bai, the mother snake with the intelligence of a teenager, was somewhat stunned, thinking to herself, "If I were to transform into human form in the future, could my body also transform to be so perfect?"
When Chi Zhen saw the blood-red wings on Li Yang's back that radiated strange energy and had a layer of strange patterns, he was so excited that tears streamed down his face. He murmured to himself, "The body of the Holy Ancestor, it really is the body of the Holy Ancestor!"
"I understand everything now, and I know what I should do. Chi Zhen, you've worked hard!" After inheriting Chi You's legacy, Li Yang knew everything about the Jiuli tribe and Chi You, and he knew what to do.
Although the people living on the mainland are all descendants of Yan and Huang, they are just like the Jiuli tribe, all inhabitants of this land. We share the same ancestor, so there's no need for internal strife that would make us a laughingstock for those petty outsiders. Instead, we should promote the Jiuli tribe, ensuring they live in unparalleled glory on this land, protecting this land that belongs to them, and protecting these hundreds of millions of people from humiliation.
Chapter 773: Refining Gu
At this moment, in his view, the so-called Yin-Yang Harmony Technique, while possessing some power, was far inferior to the cultivation methods created by the Yellow Emperor and Su Nu in ancient times, which utilized the relationship between men and women. It was utterly unworthy of even being called a worthy successor. Furthermore, the *Su Nu Jing* (Scripture of the Plain Girl) they passed down was merely a superficial understanding; the true great technique simply did not exist in the world. The Yellow Emperor and Su Nu would not allow such a divine skill to be passed down, as that would plunge the continent into turmoil, preventing the people from enjoying a harmonious and peaceful life.
"Holy Lord, it is all what we should do~" Chi Zhen said, kneeling on the ground with utmost respect.
"Hmm~" Li Yang nodded slightly. He retracted the blood wings on his back and landed on the ground, quietly observing everything in the tomb. He understood the patterns on the four walls; they were ancient scripts, recording the glory and honor of the ancient Jiuli people, as well as Chi You's ambitions and aspirations. They also contained all his life's learning, including martial arts, Gu techniques, witchcraft, and divine weapons. Of course, his divine weapon had been damaged in the great battle, becoming a broken weapon. Li Yang walked to a wall, placed his arm on it, and a powerful force surged from his hand. The wall trembled and caved in, revealing a hidden compartment where a broken, dark spear lay quietly.
"Ask the Heavens, it's time for you to shine!" Li Yang reached out and lightly touched the tip of the spear with his finger. The spear tip, which seemed dark and without any sharpness, immediately split open on Li Yang's finger, and a drop of scarlet blood fell onto the spear tip.
“Buzz—” The black spear that had been lying quietly suddenly trembled, emitting a strange trembling and buzzing sound. Suddenly, it rose up and transformed into a black light, heading straight for Li Yang.
"Be careful..." Chi Zhen cried out in alarm. But Li Yang didn't move, letting the black spear pierce him. However, the expected splatter of blood didn't occur. The black light that the spear had transformed into instantly disappeared into Li Yang's body. A moment later, the shape of a black spear suddenly appeared on Li Yang's arm, though much smaller. It turned out that it had actually merged into Li Yang's body.
"That's amazing! So that's how it works!" Chi Zhen exclaimed in astonishment. He had never seen a spear disappear inside a human body before! But when he thought about how things like Gu worms were also cultivated inside the human body, he understood.
“Yes. This is the Divine Weapon of the God Chi You, the Heaven-Asking Spear. However, after he committed suicide in battle, the weapon was damaged and broken, greatly reducing its power. But it still possesses unfathomable power; it just needs to recover slowly.” Li Yang said to Chi Zhen.