Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 2164 - 2165: The Origins of Yellow Springs

Chapter 2164: Chapter 2165: The Origins of Yellow Springs

Qi Chen and Dou Yanlan did not disturb Feng Yuan. After roughly understanding the situation of the ruins, Feng Yuan asked the Yellow Springs Apostles to send them back to the station’s warehouse, but he chose to stay here.

Even Qi Chen seemed to feel something. Before leaving this place, he patted Feng Yuan on the shoulder and glanced at him without saying a word, but Feng Yuan understood what he meant.

Feng Yuan smiled and said nothing, until their figures disappeared in front of him, he suddenly lay on the ground without any concern for his appearance. Even though the surface of the metal platform was so cold, Feng Yuan seemed to feel nothing.

Xiao Ji looked at Feng Yuan worriedly, and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound, under Xiao Ji’s cue, came forward with it and rubbed its head against Feng Yuan. Feng Yuan sat up, scooped Xiao Ji into his arms, and looked at the floating Yellow Springs Apostles, saying with a bitter smile,

"Yellow Springs... haha... so it’s them..."

Turning with a deep sorrow, Xiao Ji couldn’t help but seek help from Agunas and them.

Veronia floated in front of Feng Yuan and looked at him, saying,

"Was the Yellow Springs Ghost Army your handiwork?"

"It makes sense. Such a powerful force, a power exclusive to the Netherworld, could only be yours."

Although Veronia didn’t know the hidden meaning in the Yellow Springs Apostles’ name, it still recalled many things.

The Yellow Springs Ghost Army, an extraordinary organization considered miraculous during the Mythical Era, composed of civilians and unique Ghost Series Spirit Beasts. The Spirit Beasts of that era were quite different from those after the Mythical Era.

While the number of Spirit Beasts was not large, it wasn’t small either, and their strength was extraordinarily formidable. Thus, during the Mythical Era, Spirit Beasts and humans were almost on the same footing, with status determined by strength.

Or rather, during that era, the boundaries between Spirit Beasts and humans were blurred.

However, in such an environment, outliers like the Yellow Springs Ghost Army emerged. Although their civilians were only commoners without the formidable physique and strength of the Divine Beings, they possessed remarkable scientific research and technological capabilities.

If the humans of the Yellow Springs Ghost Army relied on powerful weapons to stand against the Divine Beings, then the Spirit Beasts of the Yellow Springs Ghost Army were of a different nature.

During the Mythical Era, the Netherworld was hidden, and the Ghost Series and Death Series Spirit Beasts rarely appeared, yet the Spirit Beasts of the Yellow Springs Ghost Army happened to belong to these two categories.

Moreover, those Spirit Beasts could even tap into the power of the Netherworld to attack enemies and do seemingly impossible things, things which even Veronia found unbelievable.

After all, capabilities like reviving the dead are not something that just any Divine Beasts could possess, yet they could achieve it, representing a power not to be underestimated despite certain limitations.

The combination of these two factors made it so that countries at that time dared not provoke them lightly. In an era where lives were as insignificant as weeds, the existence of the Yellow Springs Ghost Army gave ordinary, oppressed people a glimmer of hope, even forcing the Divine Beings of the time to avoid over-exploiting their "subjects."

Unfortunately, the Yellow Springs Ghost Army had no intention of large-scale expansion, only operating in areas where ordinary people suffered severe persecution, taking away those willing to leave their familiar homes with them.

Thinking of these events, Agunas looked at Feng Yuan with strange eyes, as the Yellow Springs Ghost Army could be said to have influenced the order of the entire Mythical Era to some extent.

Noticing Agunas’s gaze, Feng Yuan sighed and said,

"Actually, I don’t really know what the so-called Yellow Springs Ghost Army is; what I did back then was simply give them a means of self-defense."

As he spoke, Feng Yuan glanced at the Yellow Springs Apostles and said softly,

"Back then, they encountered me by chance. I cannot forget the determined eyes of the leader. To protect those they cared about, they would not hesitate to sell themselves to darkness..."

Closing his eyes slowly, Feng Yuan seemed to return to that day, which was just a leisurely stroll that unexpectedly led him to a group of common people suffering from the chaos of war...

Gently stroking Xiao Ji’s feathers with his fingers, Feng Yuan spoke softly,

"Actually, there is something you might not know. The Yellow Springs Ghost Army you refer to were originally all humans."

"That’s impossible! The Spirit Beasts of the Yellow Springs Ghost Army have such distinctive names, how could it not be related to you!"

Agunas’s intense reaction startled Veronia, and Feng Yuan slowly opened his eyes to glance at Agunas, knowing that they had already guessed something.

Veronia didn’t initially understand what had gotten into Agunas, but it quickly connected the dots. Instead of questioning Feng Yuan further, it looked toward Tamur and asked,

"You, do you know about this?"

Tamur slightly swayed its body, saying with an enigmatic expression,

"I am unaware of any connection with the Yellow Springs Ghost Army."

As a Divine Beast of the era, Tamur should theoretically know everything about the Mythical Era. However, the Yellow Springs Ghost Army was absent from its information database, even in the projected Mythical Era, there were no traces left by the Yellow Springs Ghost Army.

With a soft laugh, Feng Yuan shook his head and said,

"The term Yellow Springs might be quite unique to you, because in this world there is no corresponding entity or legend to Yellow Springs."

"Yellow Springs, in the world I was in before, is a place similar to the Netherworld, where the souls of the deceased gather, waiting to move on to the cycle of reincarnation."

"Of course, there are also wandering spirits who linger in Yellow Springs because they cannot let go of something important to them."

"The first Yellow Springs Apostles were like those people, protecting the souls of their cherished ones, even as wandering spirits."

"So... you actually..."

Looking at Feng Yuan, Veronia was astounded. Even though it was just human souls, even though Feng Yuan hadn’t fully explained, how could it not know what was going on.

Feng Yuan, he had transformed human souls into Ghost Series Spirit Beasts! The Yellow Springs Apostles!

For Feng Yuan to accomplish such an unimaginable task didn’t particularly surprise Veronia, mainly because Feng Yuan’s strength was evident, not to mention transforming souls into Spirit Beasts was theoretically feasible, but unfortunately, there was the significant hurdle of the world’s constraints.

The world itself would not allow such a transformation to take place.

Veronia, for one, was at a loss for how to judge Feng Yuan’s bold actions. Humans, after all, are not Spirit Beasts, even if they are souls; but it believed Feng Yuan’s transformation wouldn’t have erased the human’s memory.

With human memories turning into Spirit Beasts, at first, it might seem like nothing, but as time passes, due to the complexity of human nature, they will become an extremely unstable factor.

However, fortunately, this very likely event seemed not to happen for some unknown reason.

Perhaps Feng Yuan did not misjudge them back then?

Veronia thought so but did not say it aloud because there was still a Yellow Springs Apostle present. Though it could assume that the subsequent Yellow Springs Apostles were genuine Spirit Beasts, knowing the origin of these Yellow Springs Apostles left Veronia feeling rather strange.

Agunas glanced at Feng Yuan but did not reproach him. Converting human souls into Spirit Beasts is indeed a controversial action.

However, as someone also from that era, Agunas could understand why Feng Yuan did what he did.

Unless the supernatural intervened, Feng Yuan had no choice but to give them a means of self-preservation.

That unique technology and weaponry were one way, but to humans, these were all external aids, easily counteracted by the willful Divine Beings. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

But when combined with the formidable Yellow Springs Spirit Beasts, it provided a deterrent substantial enough to make them reconsider whether it was worth the effort.

Certainly, given the subsequent events, Feng Yuan’s actions ensured not only their safety but the safety of many ordinary people. The rights and wrongs of it all, who could definitively say?

"Since you already know who they are, have you thought about reaching out to them?"

Seeing Feng Yuan fall silent once more, Veronia prompted him. Feng Yuan glanced at Veronia and shook his head, saying,

"I... I’m not ready yet..."

"Why? Since you did nothing wrong, what’s there to prepare for?"

Veronia, puzzled, looked at Feng Yuan, not understanding his reasoning. Taking a long breath, Feng Yuan spoke,

"Because I never granted them... eternal life..."