Chapter 89 : Cleansing Incense Ancient Land 1 (1/2)
Chapter 89 : Cleansing Incense Ancient Land (1)
The Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect was founded by Min Ren during the early years of the Emperors Era. Its emperor’s foundation could be said to be unshakable!
During the beginning of the Emperors Era, at the moment when the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect was at its most prosperous state, it encompassed the whole Grand Middle Territory and commanded the entire Mortal Emperor World. One could only imagine how powerful it used to be.
A million years had passed, and the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect finally became weak. It no longer had the power to sweep through the world and rule over the Nine Worlds like before. However, the ancestral land of the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect still remained.
The ancestral land of the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect used to be extremely vast. Some said that when the sect was at its prime, it ranged around one million miles with thousands of ancient pavilions and countless disciples that were not just from the Mortal Emperor World! Even Charming Spirits, Heavenly Ghosts, and Stone Statues — these races that were favored by the heavens — joined the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect.”[1]
The Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect’s glory was a path with no return; in the end, the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect had to let go of its vast land and hide like a turtle in a corner of its old land.
Li Qi Ye’s group went on their trip with Protector Mo leading the way. Because he had been to the Ancient Land multiple times, he could be regarded as a light car traveling on a familiar road.
Today, there were only a few dozen main peaks and the area only spanned for a thousand miles. This was incomparable to the old scale.
They left the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect on a straight road to the Ancient Land. One could see the rolling mountains and high peaks like a Dragon Tiger that was entrenched in the middle of this grand earth.
The Ancestral Land of the sect used to be a beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers, just like a land of immortals. However, today, from Li Qi Ye’s eyes, this was not the case.
Closing the distance to the Ancient Land, he only saw death: dried trees and withered forest, bare mountains and empty rivers, devoid of birds and beasts; a land of stillness.
Observing along the way, he found that there were ancient temples and high pavilions inside the mountain ranges and deep valleys. Unfortunately, these ancient temples and high pavilions were broken into pieces and surrounded by wild grass and a deathly aura.
From the delicate engravings of these broken ruins, one could imagine the prosperity of that year, the majesticity of that year.
Countless undulating peaks and many ancient structures were only ruins, today!
Traveling on this wretched ground, even Protector Mo gently sighed. A sadness and unwillingness to see the once invincible Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect falling into this state.
Li Qi Ye silently treaded on this familiar ground that had entirely transformed in today’s time. However, the decline of the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect was not why Li Qi Ye’s expression greatly changed. What moved him was that he was walking on top of a grand ground, yet he could faintly feel the evil aura under the earth!
Li Qi Ye had felt this evil aura inside the Ghost Pavilion, before. He was familiar with it, and he knew the origin of this evil energy, but he couldn’t imagine how this evil energy had appeared once again.
This land used to be filled with legends. That year, when Li Qi Ye was the Dark Crow, he was well aware. It was the same with Immortal Emperor Min Ren. It was indeed mysterious, and it was indeed legendary; however, it also buried a frightening existence.
Establishing the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect on this ground, Li Qi Ye had his own reasons that year. In order to get rid of future complications, Li Qi Ye had infiltrated the deepest part of this ground. After Min Ren shouldered the Heaven’s Will, Li Qi Ye made him personally refine and use an invincible sealing formation on the deepest part.
In principle, this evil aura shouldn’t have appeared again. In reality, after Min Ren had left and when he was the Dark Crow that appeared in this world again, he was keeping track of this land. After countless years and from era to era, he was still observing this land, but this situation had never happened before.
However, during his last deep slumber, only a short thirty thousand years had passed, yet this matter had happened and it greatly shocked Li Qi Ye.
“There is an ominous thing underground!”
Li Shuang Yan, standing next to Li Qi Ye, couldn’t help but say.
As a genius, her spirit sense was extremely sharp. Walking on top of this land, she felt that there was an aura on the ground that caused her to become angry.
“I heard that that year, there was a great change, and it brought about the decline of our Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect.”
Protector Mo gently shook his head and sighed.
Nan Huai Ren was considered to be very informed within the sect, so he busily spoke in place of his master:
“I heard that that year, we didn’t actually lose to the Heavenly God Sect. If there was not such a strange event that happened to us, not to mention a single Heavenly God Sect, even ten would be easily destroyed by us.”
“The Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect did face a great calamity that year.”
Li Shuang Yan changed her expression and said:
“I’ve heard about the grand calamity happening at the Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect, but the later generations assumed that the sect was making an excuse for their grand defeat.”