Chapter 330 - Curse (2/2)
”Then...?”
”You must understand, Lord Orion's power was unmatched even by today's standards. If given ample time he would have broken through the highest cultivation realm and stood at the very top, but he chose to not to do that. If he wanted to escape from that place, there was no thing and no one that could stop him.”
”Yet, he chose to stay back and gave the ultimate sacrifice.”
”The ultimate....sacrifice?” Hao Xuan was holding his breath without even realizing it. It all sounded too....heroic.
”Yes. When someone dies, their soul moves on and is still able to exist in another shape or form somewhere out there in the vast universe. But if the soul is destroyed, there is no coming back from it. And Lord Orion was powerful enough that even death was just a minor inconvenience for him.”
”But when the time came and he realized he would not be able to stop Ra from entering our plane, Lord Orion used his own soul to create a technique, his most powerful and ultimate technique. We don't know what it was called, but it could bring about miracles.”
”Such was its power and majesty! So with that technique, Lord Orion used his soul as fuel and made sure Ra would not be able to enter our world, at least for a few million years by sealing the pathway between worlds. He was hoping that would give our tribe enough time to rise from the ashes once again and another would rise to take his place but, he underestimated Ra's reach.”
”Although Ra couldn't come here nor could his armies, there were still a few leftover from Lues and Aegror's followers. With their help he cursed Lord Orion's entire bloodline. Those marks that you see on our bodies, those are his doing. With the last bit of power he had here, Ra placed a cursed on our tribe for all of eternity.”
”But a long time has passed now and our bloodlines have thinned to the point of nonexistent. This has reduced our powers but also the effects of the curse. It can be broken by a cultivator that is an expert in Curses and we can be freed.”
”All you need to do is tell this to the outside world and about the ancestral essence.”
”The essence?” Hao Xuan frowned.
”The purple liquid. Tell them of its existence and that is sure to bring some powerful existence.”
”What is it? That liquid?”
”...”
From the silence, Hao Xuan could tell that Agueda was trying to find the appropriate words to describe it.
”It is....us. The liquid is created from the bodies of my tribesmen through a horrendous process Ra himself created. Every single member of my tribe, once they get old or unable to work are turned into that liquid. And soon I'm afraid there will be no one left to carry on our legacy. Please, help us before its too late!”