Chapter 965

Chapter 965 Rise of the Foreign Race

 

If I’m not mistaken, this movie definitely has a continuation.

And the continuation should be visible at the sect on top of the mountain.

“Why don’t you stay here while I go up to take a look?” Fang Yu turned his head and said to Ji Rumei.

Ji Rumei’s face turned pale.

In reality, her heart was filled with terror and unease.

But Fang Yu’s words suggested that he didn’t want to take her along.

I can’t trouble Mr. Fang!

Ji Rumei bit her lip and nodded, “Alright, Mr. Fang, I’ll wait for you here.”

“Never mind, I’ll take you with me. There shouldn’t be any danger,” Fang Yu said without waiting for Ji Rumei to finish. He wrapped one arm around her and flew upward.

This time, Ji Rumei couldn’t hold back and let out a scream.

…

The mountaintop was about three hundred meters above ground level, not particularly high.

Fang Yu and Ji Rumei landed at the edge of the mountaintop.

Looking ahead, they could see several stone buildings.

This must be the core area of the Xuzhen Sect.

But at this moment, apart from the buildings, there was nothing else.

“You can start now,” Fang Yu said to the space in front of him.

But in the vast emptiness, only Fang Yu’s voice echoed back with no response.

Ji Rumei turned to look at Fang Yu, about to speak.

“We have nowhere to retreat! To die for the glory of our sect is to die with honor!”

At that moment, an anguished roar suddenly came from ahead.

Ji Rumei’s expression changed as she looked forward.

The previously empty space suddenly filled with a large group of corpse-race creatures!

More than twenty cultivators stood on the high platform used for martial arts competitions in their sect.

This was their last stand.

From the looks of things elsewhere, the entire sect… only had this group of cultivators left.

At this moment, among these cultivators, some were pale with extreme fear.

But many others had bloodshot eyes and expressions of resentment.

“If there is a next life, I, Qin Zhan, will cultivate diligently to become an immortal master and completely eradicate you damned alien races!” one cultivator roared as he charged toward the corpse-race creatures with a heavy hammer.

Such an action was like a moth flying into a flame.

As soon as he reached the corpse-race creatures, he was dissolved within moments.

But until his death, he was still letting out wild laughter rather than screams of agony.

“Senior Brother Qin…” the cultivators on the platform cried out in grief.

Expressions of determination appeared on their faces.

All twenty-plus cultivators detonated themselves simultaneously!

“Boom!”

A loud explosion shook the ground violently.

Dazzling light burst forth.

This light lasted for several seconds before slowly dissipating.

After the light faded, everything disappeared again, returning to its original state.

The surroundings fell silent once more.

Fang Yu looked around, about to walk forward.

But at this moment, the scenery around them suddenly changed.

After a dizzy spell, Fang Yu and Ji Rumei… found themselves in a passage.

Fang Yu turned his head and discovered a series of murals carved on the rock wall beside them.

The first mural simply depicted several people.

“This craftsmanship… is really quite poor,” Fang Yu thought to himself, looking at the crude human figures.

As he walked along the passage, he found that these murals formed a continuous record.

The passage was only about thirty meters long.

When they reached the end, a clear spring appeared before them.

By now, Fang Yu had basically understood the content of the murals.

They recorded the history of the Xuzhen Sect from its founding until its destruction.

And the moment of destruction, Fang Yu had just witnessed.

“What’s the point of this ancient ruin? Just to show me a real-life movie? Shouldn’t there be some challenge for me? Where is the inheritance?” Fang Yu was completely puzzled as he looked at the spring ahead.

Ji Rumei silently followed beside Fang Yu.

Although she also had many questions, she didn’t dare to ask, afraid of disrupting Fang Yu’s train of thought.

Fang Yu stared at the spring ahead.

“Whoosh!”

At that moment, a light suddenly emanated from the center of the spring.

A blue lotus flower floated there.

“This is…” Fang Yu narrowed his eyes, about to step forward.

“If you want to obtain my Wishful Blue Lotus, you’ll have to chat with me first.”

At that moment, a voice came from ahead.

Fang Yu stopped and looked forward with a smile, “I’ve been waiting for this moment for a long time. Let’s get to the test.”

“Test? No.”

To Ji Rumei’s shock, the spring suddenly splashed.

These water droplets formed a human figure in mid-air.

This person appeared semi-transparent like water, with unclear features, but one could vaguely make out his rather imposing build.

“Who are you?” Fang Yu asked.

“I am He Ruju of the Xuzhen Sect,” the semi-transparent figure answered.

“He Ruju of the Xuzhen Sect? I just saw that your Xuzhen Sect was already destroyed…” Fang Yu asked with confusion.

“The scene you witnessed is also what I saw… I merely recreated my memories,” He Ruju said.

“Were you there at the time? Then how are you still alive?” Fang Yu asked curiously.

“My senior brothers used their lives to give those of us who were considered ‘hope’… a chance to survive,” He Ruju answered.

“How many people survived?” Fang Yu asked.

“Six people, including myself,” He Ruju answered.

Fang Yu looked at the semi-transparent figure before him and asked, “Since you were able to leave behind this ruin, it shows that you lived for quite some time afterward and your cultivation improved greatly. So… did you eventually succeed in your revenge?”

Hearing this question, He Ruju was silent for several seconds, as if considering how to answer.

“I took revenge, but in a sense, the revenge was not successful,” He Ruju said.

“What do you mean?” Fang Yu asked.

“In our era, alien races rose to power. The strength of human cultivators could not match the various emerging alien races,” He Ruju said with his hands behind his back. “At the height of the alien races’ rampage, hundreds of thousands of humans died at their hands every day, and dozens of sects… were destroyed due to alien invasions.”

“Our Xuzhen Sect was one of them. You’ve already seen the situation when we fought against the alien races.”

“The six of us who survived desperately cultivated in the days that followed, and indeed gained some ability to fight against the alien races. The corpse race… was exterminated by us.”

“Isn’t that successful revenge?” Fang Yu raised an eyebrow and said.

“The corpse race was indeed exterminated, but there were still the sea demon race, the netherworld ghost race, the abyss race… there were simply too many alien races to completely eradicate,” He Ruju said. “From this perspective, the revenge was not successful.”

“New alien races kept appearing, and human cultivators became increasingly disadvantaged.”

“In the later period, the surviving human cultivators cultivated desperately, no longer to fight against alien races… but to achieve immortality as soon as possible, hoping to ascend and leave this world before being found and killed by alien races.”

Hearing these words, Fang Yu’s expression changed slightly.

Cultivating to become immortal, just to escape the slaughter by alien races!?

What a desperate notion.

Cultivators who could achieve immortality must have reached the peak of the Tribulation Passing stage.

At this level, their power was already extremely formidable.

Yet even so, these powerful beings didn’t think about fighting against alien races, but about ascending to escape!

This was enough to show just how terrifying the alien races were at that time.

“You… thought the same way?” Fang Yu asked.

He Ruju was silent for a moment before answering, “Yes.”

Fang Yu’s eyes flickered, but he said nothing more.

“I once thought about fulfilling Senior Brother Qin Zhan’s dying wish to eradicate all alien races,” He Ruju said. “But later I realized that neither I nor anyone else could accomplish this.”

“Before I was about to pass the tribulation and become immortal, I suddenly thought… I should leave something behind to let future generations know what happened back then.”

“At that time, I wasn’t sure if humans would survive… but it seems they have endured.”

Hearing He Ruju’s words, Fang Yu thought of something and felt a shock in his heart.

He recalled what he had heard before.

Throughout history, humans had suffered several major catastrophes that nearly led to extinction, separated by very long periods of time.

At the time, Fang Yu hadn’t taken these words seriously because the intervals were tens of thousands of years at minimum, which seemed too distant to matter.

But now it seemed… the era He Ruju lived in might have been one of those times when humans suffered a major catastrophe!

Speaking of alien races, Fang Yu thought of the doubts he had harbored for the past year.

During this year, various strange events had occurred, and beings that were only known in legends had actually appeared before his eyes…

Including the Immortal Tribe in Huaibei, and the Demon Tribe he encountered later… weren’t these alien races?

For the past two or three thousand years, alien races had been completely out of sight!

Now, they were indeed emerging again!

“I want to know, in your era, how did the alien races appear?” Fang Yu asked with a hint of shock in his eyes. “Or rather, before the rise of alien races… were there any signs?”