Chapter 800 (1/2)

Chapter 800: 800

When Long Chen raised this question, the old tribe leader sighed . “The cause of conflict is always due to profit . In pursuit of the greatest profit, people are capable of committing all kinds of crimes . ”

When the Immemorial Path was shattered, the aboriginals of the path had essentially been abandoned .

They had been sent to guard this place since the beginning of the Immemorial Path . They had taken root, giving birth to generation after generation, and kept the order of this place . But their inheritance could only count as average .

Once the Immemorial Path crumbled, they immediately lost what they depended on the most . With no one to look after them, these aboriginals panicked .

After centuries of chaos, they finally came to accept that they were trapped, sealed within the Immemorial Path . They had lost all contact with the outside world .

But just as they had begun to gradually accustom themselves to this new life, trial takers from the outside suddenly appeared again . That delighted them originally . They had thought they would finally be able to communicate with the outside world again .

But they had never imagined that those trial takers would brandish their butcher knives against them . They slaughtered them to take the yuan spirit stones they possessed .

Because of the change in the world, they received a powerful restriction in the Immemorial Path . As a result, the invaders’ slaughter was disastrous . Some tribes were completely destroyed .

Back then, they had been furious . They hadn’t understood why those disciples would want to kill them .

They had tried to communicate with the trial takers . But the only response had been their icy and b.l.o.o.d.y blades . In that first encounter, the aboriginals suffered immense losses .

But that had just been the start . That battle had lasted for a year . Several years later, another batch of trial takers had entered . They came from a different continent, but they also brought slaughter . If they saw aboriginals, they killed them and crazily s.n.a.t.c.hed their resources .

The aboriginals were finally completely infuriated . An immense war was fought, and both sides took heavy losses . This kind of situation repeated over and over .

Sometimes it would be a few years before a new group of people came, sometimes it would be decades . By this time, they no longer viewed them as trial takers, but as invaders .

At some unknown point, the aboriginals had noticed a kind of ore that could block the power of the restriction the world placed on them . They excavated that ore and built altars out of it . When the Immemorial Path opened, they would activate those altars and have their tribesmen hide within their range .

When the Immemorial Path closed, they would deactivate the altars and be free to roam around . This was why Xiao Gu and the others’ power was so heavily restricted outside but was restored to normal here .

“In all these years, you’ve never managed to properly communicate with anyone?” Long Chen frowned . This matter was extremely strange . Why would they want to kill these aboriginals? Was it really just for the yuan spirit stones? Or was there some other goal?

“We’ve tried, but regretfully, each time ends in disappointment . Furthermore, one time was extremely dangerous; an invader won our trust . As a result, he colluded with others to destroy the altars of several tribes . That caused… well, I don’t need to say it,” sighed the old tribe leader . He clearly felt gloomy about this topic . Even with his death imminent, he wasn’t able to accept this .

“No wonders the aboriginals would hate the invaders . Both sides are like fire and water with such a complicated relations.h.i.+p . But I’m curious . From the first time I heard of the Immemorial Path to when I entered, my seniors didn’t mention any enmities with you . They just told me I had to be careful of you, that you were the most terrifying enemies in the Immemorial Path,” said Long Chen .

“That’s because the invaders never care about the history of the victims . Furthermore, after so much time had pa.s.sed, not even your seniors would necessarily know about this kind of matter . But there is one thing that’s for sure: each time the Immemorial Path is opened, a pack of red-robed people will deliberately come to slaughter us aboriginals . They are both merciless and vicious . Furthermore, they have special tools to break our altars . They’re the existence we abhor the most,” said the old tribe leader .

“Red robes? Didn’t that refer to the Corrupt path? Could it be that the Corrupt path knew something others didn’t?” Long Chen wondered to himself .

He faintly smelled the scent of a scheme . Everything had happened so abruptly and it simply didn’t make sense . There was no logic to it .

But those matters had happened so long ago that there was no proof to be found to reveal the truth . To solve this riddle was far too difficult .

The old tribe leader continued telling him about the past . After inventing the altars, the aboriginals had also constructed various transportation formations between them as well as secret lairs .

The women and children who had appeared had come from one of those hideouts . If the Xiao tribe was destroyed, those women and children would survive to continue their bloodline .

Once these hideouts and transportation formations were constructed, the tribes would be able to help each other as soon as they were attacked by invaders .

As for Xiao Fei’s father, he was the previous tribe leader, and he had fallen in battle against invaders .