Chapter 691: Four Eras (1/2)

Chapter 691: Four Eras

Deeply shaken, Nie Tian marveled, “Ancientspirits!”

He had never known that ancient beasts, dragons, and titans actually belonged to one race.

“So their time is the so-called ancient time?” Nie Tian asked.

“Sorry, master,” the soul answered. “I lost pretty much all of my memories when I was refined into this suit of armor and became its soul. If I were still a flame dragon, and possessed all of my old memories, I might have been able to tell you more.”

As the two of them communicated, Nie Tian examined the Flame Dragon Armor with rapt attention and discovered that, like a streak of flames, a miniature flame dragon that was a thousand times smaller than a regular one was swimming within the Blood Core.

He immediately realized that it was the embodiment of the Flame Dragon Armor’s soul.

“So tell me something you do remember,” Nie Tian said.

“There were three eras before this one,” the soul said. “I don’t have any memory of the first era, or perhaps I never knew anything about it to begin with.

“The second era is called the Desolate Antiquity Era, which was the era that belonged to us Ancientspirits.

“Back then, we were the masters of this boundless starry river. Enormous ancient beasts, dragons, and titans were all born with divine abilities. They could travel across the starry river even when they were very young.

“The third era was called the Remote Antiquity Era. During that era, Demons, Phantasms, Bonebrutes, and many other powerful races rose to prominence. They gained control of parts of the starry river and stood up to us Ancientspirits as equals.

“Now we’re in the fourth era, which is called Near Antiquity Era. This is the time when humans finally rose to prominence and gained the ability to stand up to the other races.

“However, us Ancientspirits and the other races didn’t enter a decline as humans grew stronger.

“Right now, different races are thriving in different parts of the starry river and ruling their own domains. It’s an era of diversity.”

Eyes narrowed, Nie Tian looked blankly at the floating Flame Dragon Armor. “So there are a total of four eras, and the first one is so remote that you can’t even remember anything about it...”

“Yeah. Of the other three eras, I can also only remember their names. I don’t know what major events happened during those eras. Perhaps I knew them once, but now that I’ve become the Flame Dragon Armor’s soul, almost all of my memories are gone.” The soul sounded somewhat emotional.

“So do you know who turned you into the Flame Dragon Armor’s soul, and how many masters you had before me?” Nie Tian asked.

“I’ve had two masters before you, but I have no idea who turned me into the Flame Dragon Armor’s soul,” The soul explained. “Like I said, I’ve lost pretty much all of my memories before the point where I became the Flame Dragon Armor’s soul. The person who turned me into the Flame Dragon Armor’s soul gave me to my first owner, whose seemed to be called the Daughter of Flames.”

Surprised, Nie Tian asked, frowning, “You can’t be certain of it?”

“No, I can’t,” the soul answered honestly. “My old memories are fragmentary. I can only vaguely remember her name.”

“You can’t even remember your first master’s name?” Nie Tian started to question the truthfulness of the soul’s words.

“That’s because my second master refined me again after getting me. He erased all of my memories of my first master so that I’d take him as my only master.” After a long pause, the soul added, “I even have a feeling that my second master killed my first master. He might have erased my memories of my first master because he was worried that I would despise him or revolt against him.”

“So who was your second master?” Nie Tian asked, his eyebrows rising. “Was he the son of the Divine Flame Sect’s sectmaster?”

“No, not him. I was already very powerful when the son of the Divine Flame Sect’s sectmaster got me. His cultivation base wasn’t high enough to control me. So he hoped to bring me back to the Divine Flame Sect, where he could have powerful experts from his sect refine me again, but he ended up being killed by a group of people.

“Since he never truly owned me or received my acknowledgment, he was never my master.

The more Nie Tian listened, the more intrigued he became. “Alright, so who was your second master?”

“His name was Pang Chicheng. According to my memories of him, he was only my master for ten years. During this time, all he did was fight in battles with my help. Since he considered me as nothing but a piece of equipment, he barely communicated with me, and I didn’t know much about him. During the tenth year since he had owned me, he took me to a place called the Shatter Battlefield, where he was surrounded and killed.

“Oh, wait, perhaps he didn’t die. His personal realm carried his soul out of the battlefield. In order to do that, he stimulated all of my potential and exhausted all of the flame power I had accumulated over the years. I fell into a deep slumber at that point.

“When I awoke again, I was already in the hands of the son of the Divine Flame Sect’s sectmaster. I have no memories of what happened before that. The son of the Divine Flame Sect’s sectmaster helped me get a large portion of my strength back, allowing me to awaken bit by bit. However, he seemed to be fleeing from many people when he first gained me. Even his ancient starship was destroyed by his pursuers.

“I thought he was going to become my third master, but unfortunately, he died before he could take me back to the Divine Flame Sect. He only had me for around six months.

“Afterwards, I drifted in the starry river, relying on my remaining power before, for some reason, I ended up in your hands.”

The soul explained its sad experience to Nie Tian in detail, yet Nie Tian gained very limited information from its words.