Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension-Chapter 444 - 303 Otherworld Scenery_2

Chapter 444: Chapter 303 Otherworld Scenery_2

“Father, rest assured, the gentleman is very amiable and approachable. Moreover, if the gentleman had not intervened, I would have died in the pack of striped wolves long ago,” Mo Ye hurriedly explained.

Upon hearing this, the red-faced Mo Kan became excited and his eyes filled with reverence. He immediately moved to pay grand respects to Zhao Sheng again.

Zhao Sheng, seeing this, grew a bit impatient and immediately emitted a golden light from his body. A majestic pressure descended upon the square, and he immobilized Mo Kan’s movements, saying, “There is no need for such formalities. Let’s go inside and talk!”

“Yes, yes, please come in, Sir!” Mo Kan stammered, his face both excited and apprehensive.

In the vast Mo Family Castle, only he truly understood the terror of the gentleman before him; even the temple sacrifice of the Su Mu Temple was far from comparable!

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Seven days later,

Inside the most luxurious lord manor of the Mo Family Castle, Zhao Sheng stood in front of a stone window, silently looking up at the giant planet in the sky.

At that time, both the suns in the sky had set, and by the time, it should have been deep into the night when all was quiet.

But at this moment, the sky still shone like dusk, and from all around the Mo Family Castle came the sounds of chanting, praying for blessings, and worshiping the divine.

Because the Netherworld Star was eternally suspended in the eastern sky, never setting nor extinguishing, the light it reflected covered the entire Mingye Realm, causing the world to have a “perpetual day” lasting seven months of the year.

Only when the two realms were misaligned and the twin suns hid behind the Demon Ruins, did Mingye Realm welcome the long, cold and terrifying “Nether Night.”

“Eternal day brings the flourishing of all things; Nether Night the prowl of all demons!”

This was the first sentence that every person from Mingye Realm had to remember when they learned to read, and they must etch it into their hearts, never to be forgotten.

Having resided in Mo Family Castle for only seven days, Zhao Sheng had already deeply witnessed the extreme superstition and ignorance of the Mo Family.

Ninety percent of the residents of Mo Family Castle worshiped and revered deities; they worshiped a miscellaneous array of gods—mountains, rivers, grass, trees, houses, wells, stones, rivers; all things could become divine, and all living beings worshiped them.

At the same time, every resident of the castle, regardless of gender or age, showed even more devotion to ancestor worship than to the divine spirits they worshiped.

Indeed, the people of the Mo Family worshiped both gods and ancestors, which, though seemingly distinct, were essentially the same.

In the seven days, Zhao Sheng had already “borrowed” a once-over of all the written texts and scriptures within the Mo Family Castle.

Don’t ask whether he recognizes the characters or not. If you ask, it is because of the vast and powerful Divine Skills of a Golden Core Master.

From the texts and scriptures, Zhao Sheng had finally gained a rough understanding of some basic information about the entire Nine Demon Continent.

The Nine Demon Continent is vast in area, but judging from the descriptions in the books, its area should only be four-tenths the size of the Central Continent, about as large as the combined area of the Southern Border and the Ten Thousand Nations Plain.

The Nine Demon Continent is not ruled by the Human Clan; the dominant ruling forces are the Nine Strange Clans, which include the Demon Beast Race and the Alien Clan. The clan groups are the Mountain Spirit, Corpse Mushroom, Ghost Fox, Earth Python, Thunder Roc, River Otter People, Ground Squirrel, Tree Charm.

The human presence on the continent mainly consisted of various religious temples and numerous family tribes.

There was not a single record of Cultivation Sects or dynastic kingdoms.

Small family clans or tribes with populations under one hundred thousand, like Mo Family Castle, dug caves and built castles to dwell in.

Larger families or tribes occupied regions of land, establishing a main city surrounded by numerous satellite cities that protected the main city, which gathered hundreds of thousands to millions of their people.

Thinking of this, Zhao Sheng couldn’t help but recall the many bizarre and eerie demon corpses and zombies he had seen on the Abyss Battlefield.

Some of them were precisely crafted from the corpses of the Nine Strange Clans.

He hadn’t encountered the Corpse Mushroom and Mountain Spirit clans, but according to the records in the books, the top-ranked Mountain Spirit consisted of the spirits of great mountains transformed into Earth Deities, each with heaven-defying strength.

The second-ranked Corpse Mushroom Clan was a peculiar fungal life form that, according to legend, had migrated to Mingye Realm from the Outer Heaven Demon Ruins, which surprised Zhao Sheng.

The Nine Strange Clans each had their respective territories and controlled the best Spirit Veins and treasure lands of the Nine Demon Continent, each standing in confrontation with the others.

However, in the past two thousand years, the Human Clan had received strong support from the Main World, causing its collective power to rise rapidly, and it now had the potential to become the tenth major clan.

Apart from the records about the Nine Demon Continent, which are detailed, the books within the castle contain scant information about other continents and the Netherworld. There were only two or three thin booklets with mostly hearsay.

In the Mingye Realm, there are only two continents; the one that reveres the Human Clan is known as the Heavenly Curtain Continent.

As for the Netherworld, it is recorded that this realm possesses thirteen continents, each rich with natural treasures and abundant Spiritual Energy like rain. Great Sects are unfathomable, and it is said that Great Sacrificial Rites are common, Golden Core Main Priests roamed the lands, and even true Divine Spirits manifested themselves among humans.

While Zhao Sheng was reflecting, the sound of chanting and praying from nearby suddenly diminished, and the castle’s residents started rising from before the ancestral figurines and left. Soon after, they contentedly climbed onto their grass mattresses and fell into a deep sleep.

The daily worship ritual had ended!

At that moment, Zhao Sheng left the stone window, his figure silently turning into a wisp of green smoke, drifting towards the gold-and-white tower.

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Three days later, the Big Star tilted, and the twin suns rose.

Suddenly, the floor inside a room began to shake violently, followed by a booming sound from the west, mixed with the wailing and shouting of hundreds of people.

In the room, Zhao Sheng, who had been sitting on the stone bed, abruptly opened his eyes, unleashing two rays of Divine Light from them as his powerful Divine Sense spread out.

In an instant, the scene within a twenty-mile radius was fully captured in his mind.

The next moment, Zhao Sheng slapped the bed, and his body shot out like a bolt of lightning. Amidst a burst of light, he appeared in mid-air outside the house in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, Mo Family Castle was in utter chaos, with adults and children hiding inside their homes amidst a chorus of cries.

From a distance, one could see a mass of demon beasts at the west entrance of the dock castle—countless Ground Squirrels, large as puppies with smooth, glossy black skin, desperately digging at the ground and the city walls.

Soon, the ground was riddled with numerous burrows, and the solid, thick walls were being dug away by thousands of Ground Squirrels.

Apart from that, in the sky, there were a dozen huge, three-zhang-wing-spanned birds, each with a corpulent Ground Squirrel Elder perched on its back.

Each of them stood arrogantly, their beady eyes gleaming with cunning and cruelty.

The Ground Squirrel Clan ranks third from the bottom among the Nine Great Clans; ordinary members are weak and not even a match for an average adult human.

However, Ground Squirrels have an extraordinary breeding capability; a single litter in a lifetime and each having at least four or five pups.

In terms of population numbers, the other eight clans combined do not amount to one-tenth of the entire Ground Squirrel Clan.

With such a large number of squirrels, inevitably, some exceptionally talented individuals rise above the rest. Thus, on sheer numbers alone, Ground Squirrels have become one of the nine clans.

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There were so many Ground Squirrels that they became a plague. In order to fill their bellies and give birth, they caused trouble for their neighbors daily, consuming all the food in their path like locusts, making the Ground Squirrel Clan the target of public anger.

In response to their infamy, the Ground Squirrel Elders professed helplessness, claiming innocence—they couldn’t just stand by and watch their offspring starve to death.

On the castle walls, bands of Mo Family Guards drew bows and shot arrows relentlessly. Each volley of arrows felled a swath of Ground Squirrels.

Atop the wall, more strong-bodied commoners lifted chunks of rock and slammed them into the rat horde, creating splatters of bloody mud.

Mo Kan and Mo Ye, father and son, were murmuring incantations and with each gesture, they scattered a vast amount of red sand. As soon as the sand contacted air, it burst into flames that descended like a blanket onto the heads of the Ground Squirrels, creating swathes of Fire Sea.

Squeak, squeak!

With the Ground Squirrel Elders hopping madly and letting out high-pitched screeches, countless Ground Squirrels gathered at the edge of the Fire Sea, industriously digging and tossing soil over the fire. Their movements were skilled and agile, a clear sign of experienced vermin.

Fortunately, the arrow volleys from the castle wall and the valiant counterattack by the Mo Family young and old for the moment hindered the progress of these demon beast squirrels, who could not overcome the city walls before them.

Seemingly impatient, the largest Ground Squirrel Elder on the back of a bird suddenly let out a sharp shriek.

The very next second, all the Ground Squirrel Elders’ eyes flickered with a red glow as they cried out in unison.

Their mounts, the great Green-Winged Birds, swooped down sharply. Streaks of blood-red light shot from the birds’ backs, falling into the rat swarm below, whereupon the Ground Squirrels stiffened, their fur bristled, their bodies swelled in size, their eyes turned a blood-red hue, and they assumed a look of madness and bloodthirstiness.