Chapter 1430: The Gates Secret (1/2)
The gate master wryly smiled and shook his head at this question: “I’m not sure about this. A long time ago, our disciples were indeed fine in all of G.o.dhalt. Later on, the suppression gradually affected us. Nowadays, we are fine in our ancestral ground but not anywhere else. Moreover, our cultivation speed has slowed down. Who knows the specific cause?”
“You’re not being very honest right now.” Li Qiye, who had been gazing into the distance, turned back and chuckled: “I can understand that you don’t know why your ancestral ground is untouched. However, if you say you don’t know why the suppression has begun for the rest of the continent, it would be too much of a lie.”
“Young n.o.ble Li, I really don’t know.” The gate master quickly defended himself: “As the gate master, I also want for my disciples to not be suppressed by G.o.dhalt and for them to cultivate faster. Unfortunately, I am powerless.”
“Not knowing and being powerless are two different things.” Li Qiye chuckled: “You are powerless, but that doesn’t mean you don’t know.”
“Ah…” The gate master awkwardly replied: “I am also eager to know, but this matter completely eludes me.”
“Since there are no outsiders here, I’ll comment on it for a bit.” Li Qiye glanced at the mountain ranges in the sky and smiled.
The gate master respectfully said: “Please enlighten us, Young n.o.ble. This lowly one is ready to learn.”
“There is a very simple reason why your ancestral ground is untouched — the topography. This place is extraordinary because it is the beginning of the Divine Tree Ridge.” He withdrew his gaze and continued: “How is it special? Your progenitor has understood some mysteries of the ridge and made some transactions before establis.h.i.+ng a grand plan with a supreme imperial foundation. This is why this ancestral ground is unaffected and why the Undying Gate has yet to be destroyed. Even if the other sects took over this area, their cultivation would slow down because they’re not the descendants of the Undying Gate!”
He glanced at the gate master at this point and laughed: “As for why the disciples are now suppressed in the other locations of G.o.dhalt? There is only one reason for this. Moreover, you know this reason very well. There is a special worldly energy in this place, or at least there was in the past. Your emperor had gone inside and changed the Earth Vein in the inner world. He used a heaven-defying method to imprint his own lineage into this Earth Vein. This allowed for the disciples to gain access to a different worldly energy than everyone else. This is why the members of your sect aren’t suppressed in G.o.dhalt.”
The gate master was aghast after listening until this point.
“Unfortunately, a few things happened to your sect so this extraordinary energy became increasingly thin, hence the slower cultivation speed as well as being suppressed in the other locations. It’s a pity that your descendants don’t have the same heaven-defying means as your emperor and can’t change it again.”
The gate master turned pale and immediately took several steps backward upon this revelation.
“Gate master, am I right?” Li Qiye grinned while staring at him.
The old man was scared speechless and remained shocked for a long time. He could feel chills and sweat running down his back.
“This secret has never been recorded in your sect and is something only pa.s.sed down by word of mouth.” Li Qiye smiled leisurely: “In each successive generation, at least one person from your sect would know this secret!”
The gate master was completely shaken. Li Qiye was right, this secret was pa.s.sed down for generations, and he was the only one who knew it in the present. However, an outsider like Li Qiye actually knew this heaven-shattering secret.
He swore that this secret couldn’t be leaked, at least not by the previous generation, so how could Li Qiye be privy to this information?
Li Qiye continued in a contemplative manner: “Who could predict the rise and fall of a lineage? Although Immortal Emperor Bu Si had created a supreme imperial foundation, later on, your sect still tried to send disciples to build up more bases on the edges of the world. Alas, your sect is on the verge of death today.”
This conversation had satiated Xiaoxiao’s inquisitive mind. In fact, Yujian also listened with relish.
Xiaoxiao found this quite intriguing and asked: “If one won’t be suppressed after establis.h.i.+ng a lineage here, how come the previous emperors, sea G.o.ds, and treefathers don’t do so?”
Li Qiye replied with a smile: “There are many things in life that happen because of the word ‘fate’. This is the interesting part about Immortal Emperor Bu Si. Any other emperor wouldn’t have this fate with the area. As for sea G.o.ds and treefathers, there is even less of a chance. Not to mention that they can’t build a lineage in this place, very few sea G.o.ds and treefathers — without factoring in the Trident and ancestral weapons — could actually stand as equals with emperors. Without heaven-defying abilities, trying to change the Divine Tree Ridge is virtually impossible!” Li Qiye shook his head at this point.