331 Twelve Celestial Beings (1/2)
Yun Yang laughed and said, ”Brother Lei, what ultimate trick did the other party use? How could someone as mighty as you be wounded?”
Lei Dongtian looked at Yun Yang in irritation before deciding to tell the truth, ”I had not expected Venerable Lord Saber to possess the Bone of the Saber God!”
Upon hearing this, Yun Yang was stunned. ”I beg your pardon?”
”Bone of the Saber God.” Lei Dongtian’s gaze was one of envy. ”It is the epitome of all that is good and wonderful.”
Yun Yang asked humbly, aware that he was not in the know of this at all. ”Bone of the Saber God? A piece of bone?”
Lei Dongtian guffawed loudly. ”Well, you aren't exactly wrong… How should I say this? Don’t worry, let me explain it to you. You could stand to gather some knowledge.”
At this juncture, Lei Dongtian felt as if he and Yun Yang were brothers who would do anything for each other, through life and death – their camaraderie was so strong that there was no secret they could not share with each other!
Being so close would escalate the sentiment between them, even when he had to destroy his own brother in the end. However, Lei Dongtian thought that even when that day came, he would remember that there was a brother who had been wholeheartedly kind to him.
”In the old days, word had it that between heaven and earth, there were Gods.” Lei Dongtian said, ”Before God ascended to heaven, he left his legacy behind.”
Yun Yang listened to Lei Dongtian’ narration with a serious expression. He had never heard of this story, so he figured it was a secret lore in the Bound of Universe.
”There wasn't just one God, but many of them. Among these many Gods, several of them were very much bonded to each other,” Lei Dongtian said.
”Many God? Very close to each other? This is interesting indeed!” Yun Yang was genuinely surprised.
Yun Yang did not question the myth of the Gods that Lei Dongtian spoke about, just like the common cultivators of Tianxuan Continent who knew Tenth Perfection cultivators as the peak of this world. However, the realm of Tenth Perfection was only the pinnacle of the peak realm in the eyes of superior sects like the School of Spring and Autumn; they were only half a step into a higher realm of heaven.
As for Lei Dongtian, who was the young lord of the Bound of Universe’s great family, his perception would be even higher. The Gods he mentioned should be the real cultivators in the Bound of Universe and what he meant by ascending should be the process of advancing to a higher level. Meanwhile, placing the peak cultivators of the Bound of Universe in Tianxuan Continent, it would be an insult to call them Gods, as their capabilities must be so much mightier!
What truly baffled Yun Yang was the latter part of Lei Dongtian’s narration. The journey of cultivation was an arduous one – it would already be the greatest luck to have one or two best friends for a cultivator, but what Lei Dongtian spoke about was several peak cultivators sharing a close relationship and ascending together – without a hitch. This was simply absurd!
”After the Gods left, the continent changed drastically in an extremely short amount of time. Everything the continent now comes from the drastic change then.”
”Because of that change, many mysterious places where humans were unable to reach appeared on the continent. Unconquerable mountains, oceans that no one could pass, and many more mysterious locations… these were never in existence until now!”
”Cultivators in the world searched for the legacy left behind by the Gods. After many, many years, there were finally twelve individuals who found what was left behind by one of the Gods.”
”These twelve people were a team; they were called explorers then. They shared an intimate bond, like real brothers, but even with the said foundation, a pure heart can be corrupted by greed. No one knows what happened exactly, but in the end, there was a big fight that resulted in animosity. They separated into two groups from then on.”
”Both sides shared comparable combat power, so if they were to go head to head, no one would emerge unscathed. They might even have died from such an altercation. They also realized that this God’s legacy was mythical in the sense that no ordinary person could easily absorb it. The cultivation method passed down was more than one; if everything were to given to one person, that person would never be able to achieve anything. For example, if the person was adept with the sword, cultivating swordsmanship would come easily to him – but if he had to cultivate the saber skill at the same time, both skillsets would hardly go anywhere! There were as many as twelve different cultivation methods within the group.”
”They were very thankful that there were as many cultivation methods as there were heads being passed down, so there was no need to fight over it. Both groups brought six methods away with them. This episode gave the twelve of them an otherworldly encounter but ruined their camaraderie as well. The damage that was done was irreparable. One really doesn’t know if it’s a happy or a sad case!”
Yun Yang pondered and asked, ”What happened to these two groups of people then? Did they turn powerful and attempt to conquer the world, competing against each other and going to the extremes?”