Chapter 1484
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Chapter 1484 Shadow on the Tree
Dark Ancestor Stone Array.
“A human figure?” Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord frowned, carefully observing under the tree for a long time. “Where is there a human figure?”
“You can’t see it?”
Lin Qiye stood stunned.
In his vision, under the bare branches, there was indeed someone standing. Although the distance was too far for Lin Qiye to see his features clearly, he knew it was a man leaning against the tree trunk, gazing up at the stars in the sky.
Lin Qiye described what he saw to Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord, who frowned in thought for a moment before saying:
“Let’s go closer.”
The two walked through the grassland under the night, step by step approaching the bare tree trunk. In Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord’s eyes, it was still empty, but in Lin Qiye’s eyes, the figure gradually became clearer.
It was a completely black man, without a face, without clothes, even without thickness, as if he were just a shadow projected onto the tree trunk.
But looking carefully at the base of the tree, there was no shadow, so where did this shadow come from?
The shadow seemed to notice Lin Qiye and his companion’s arrival, slightly turning its head, its pitch-black face staring at the two. With no facial features, Lin Qiye couldn’t see his expression, but vaguely, his form seemed to tremble for a moment.
“Spirit Treasure of later-age Great Xia seeks audience, may the Dark Ancestor appear.”
Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord stood under the tree, still unable to see the shadow, but respectfully raised his hands in salutation and said.
After these words, the shadow remained motionless, and from the direction his face was pointing, he seemed to be looking at Lin Qiye.
“No response…” Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord looked around in surprise.
With Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord’s current power and realm, there were almost no things in this world that could confuse him, but the bizarre situation before him was truly beyond his understanding.
A shadow that only Lin Qiye could see, but he couldn’t?
While Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord was puzzled, Lin Qiye’s eyes were also fixed on the shadow on the tree trunk, seemingly staring at each other…
For some reason, as he approached this bare tree, a strange sense of familiarity suddenly rose in his heart. He carefully sensed the source of this feeling and finally locked onto the night origin within his body.
“Origin…?”
Lin Qiye seemed to realize something and unconsciously raised his finger toward the shadow on the tree trunk.
At the same time, the shadow also paused, hesitated for a moment, but still extended its finger, similarly pointing toward Lin Qiye.
Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord saw Lin Qiye’s movement and instinctively wanted to stop him, but his hand stopped midway… He stared intently at Lin Qiye, whose eyes showed no trace of being bewitched, only a kind of mysterious spirit.
As Lin Qiye’s fingertip touched the shadow on the tree trunk, his body imperceptibly trembled!
“Qiye!”
Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord’s hand shot out like lightning, grabbing Lin Qiye’s arm and pulling him back dozens of meters.
Lin Qiye’s body fell limply into his arms, his eyes already closed. At the same time, a terrifying aura suddenly erupted from within him, the moonlight in the night sky was covered by darkness, and the entire world became completely devoid of light.
Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord frowned at this scene, his left hand forming a Daoist seal, about to press it on Lin Qiye’s brow, when the latter’s limp body suddenly transformed into a streak of darkness and disappeared without a trace.
“What evil creature?!” Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord shouted angrily, a Primordial Infinite Void rapidly spreading beneath his feet, as if to swallow this pitch-black world!
“No need to be nervous…” Lin Qiye’s form floated in the darkness, his eyes still tightly closed, a deep voice emanating from his throat, “I cannot harm him, he actively invited me to enter his body…”
Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord stood firmly on the Primordial Infinite Void, his Daoist robe fluttering lightly in the wind. He did not withdraw, but narrowed his eyes and continued:
“Who are you?”
“I am the Dark Ancestor… a remnant soul.”
The Dark Ancestor’s remnant soul?
Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord paused, “If you are the Dark Ancestor, why occupy a junior’s body? Why not appear in person?”
“…I said, he let me in.” For some reason, the Dark Ancestor’s voice sounded somewhat helpless. “I am now just a shadow, without a physical form, how can I appear?
This person carries my origin, so he can see me, and even allows me to reappear in the world through his body… otherwise, I couldn’t even speak with you.
But rest assured, my current state cannot last long. I will soon leave his body and return to the tree trunk.”
Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord carefully examined Lin Qiye floating in the darkness, and after confirming he wasn’t lying, temporarily withdrew the Primordial Infinite Void, his expression softening somewhat.
“Are all the deities in your later age as powerful as you?” the Dark Ancestor couldn’t help but marvel. “Your aura is already not far from mine at my peak.”
Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord hesitated for a moment, “Not all are like this poor Daoist…”
The Dark Ancestor nodded slightly, “You have cultivated your realm to the extreme, what you lack is only the power of faith… It’s strange, countless ages ago, another deity from a later age came here. His cultivation realm was inferior to yours, but the power of faith was very rich.
With your current power, plus the blessing of worship, you should not lack faith. Why is the power of faith so scarce in you?
Could it be that all living beings in the world have been destroyed?”
“Not entirely.” Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord paused. “It’s just that in the current world, not many people believe in us, and we are unwilling to forcibly gather believers, so we cultivate ourselves with limited faith.”
“I see.”
“May I ask, Dark Ancestor, who was that deity from the later age who came here years ago?”
“He had no origin, so he couldn’t communicate with me. He just circled around these giant stone arrays. Those beside him called him king… I believe his name was Gilgamesh?”
A look of confusion appeared in Spirit Treasure Celestial Lord’s eyes:
“He also crossed the wall of time and space to come here? How did he come?”
“When he explored this place, the Ancestral God Temple was still on Earth… It was only later that some mishap occurred, causing it to drift in time and space.”
“Mishap? Who caused it?”
Logically, in that era, the mist had not yet invaded, and living beings still existed. Even without human faith in the Ancestral Gods, those animals and plants would still provide faith continuously. Even if many Ancestral Gods’ power was far from before, they shouldn’t have been directly banished to the end of time and space.
The Dark Ancestor was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke: “There were several monsters from outside the world. They wanted to invade the Ancestral God Temple. We entangled with them for nearly a hundred years… Unfortunately, our strength had already weakened. Although we barely repelled them, the Ancestral God Temple was severely damaged and drifted into the crevices of time and space.”
