Chapter 330 - Promise (1/2)
”The power to devour blood and gain their bloodline? That doesn't sound like a normal ability someone should have,” Ning said.
”Yes. We believe he was born with a heavenly constitution, one that allowed him to do all of that. After all, no ordinary beast should be able to reach the peak of Nascent Soul realm in mere 2 centuries,” the Drake said.
”Still, it's been over 10 thousand years. Are you sure he's still alive?” Ning asked.
”We are alive, aren't we? We're sure he's alive too. We can feel him pushing on our powers to undo the seal. Each day, he grows stronger and stronger. Even when we sealed him the furthest away we could from the origin, and even siphoned away most of the Qi, his power still grows.”
”It worries me that soon, we won't be able to stop him at all,” the drake said.
”You… siphoned the Qi away?” Ning asked in confusion.
”Yes, we sealed him in the middle of this forest and also made a formation to take away the surrounding Qi to… somewhere,” the drake said. ”You must've felt the lack of Qi in the forest above right?”
”Umm… there is no forest outside.,. It's all a desert now,” Ning said.
”Desert? No, it's a forest young man. You seem to have been mistaken,” the drake said.
”No, it's a desert. It has been as such for the last thousands of years. It's a desert that spans thousands of kilometers and is surrounded by a massive jungle,” Ning said.
”You aren't lying, are you?” the drake asked.
”No, that's the truth,” Ning said.
The Drake went quiet for a few moments. Then, another beast spoke from the side.
”Did we… destroy our own home?”
”Is our home truly gone?”
”Where do we return to now? Where do our children return to?”
”No wonder the planet stopped favoring us. We are someone that would eventually destroy our own home.”
The beasts started lamenting the fact that there was no longer a forest above where they were. The forest used to be their home, the majority of the Central Continent used to be their home.
”Is it because you guys took away the Qi that this desert came to be? Is that why a desert has such high mountain peaks? Because it wasn't originally a desert?” Ning asked.
The beasts stayed quiet for some time longer. Finally, the drake spoke again.
”It seems in our pursuit to quickly take care of Jha'Akim, we forgot to understand what adverse effects we might have been leaving behind in this world.”
”Oh ancestors, forgive us. Your descendants have destroyed that which you loved,” the drake cried out.
”Forgive us,” every other beast cried out as well.