“Have you heard of it? The greatest secret of our human race’s Holy Land, the ‘Stone Carvings.’ This is a corner of one of them.”
“There are ten complete Stone Carvings in total, recording the entire development history of our human race from birth to the present. They represent the inheritance, accumulation, and expansion of our human civilization.”
“Legend has it that each carving allows one to comprehend a unique secret art of the human race. This is also the fundamental reason why our human race could become the strongest race.”
Lu Chenxing, hearing this, was slightly taken aback. The strongest race? Was the human race once the strongest race? And what were Holy Lands and secret arts? He had never heard of them.
“But I never thought that as a demonic cultivator, my first visit to the human race’s Holy Land, my first contact with the Stone Carvings, would be to snatch fragments of the Stone Carvings from the hands of other races,” the Corpse Refining Demon Lord said with a bitter smile.
“I used to hear that no matter how the Stone Carvings were damaged, they would eventually return to their original state. I don’t know if it’s true, but I probably won’t have the chance to see it.”
“If you have the chance to find other fragments of the Stone Carvings, please try it for me.”
But in the end, his expression became serious, “But even without the Stone Carvings, our human race will not perish! Absolutely not! The Stone Carvings exist because of the human race, not the human race existing dependent on the Stone Carvings! Remember this point!”
“Finally, I will leave behind my inheritance and the inheritance left by a friend of mine. Although he was a friend, we were also each other’s greatest rivals. It’s a pity he died in battle, while I barely survived... In any case, you can choose one based on your own situation.”
“He cultivated the Yin-Yang Way, which is a righteous path. I cultivated the Corpse Refining Art, which is a demonic path. The former requires talent, otherwise one cannot comprehend the mysteries of Yin-Yang transformation. The latter requires temperament; if one’s temperament is not good, it’s very easy to fall into evil ways, ultimately harming oneself and others.”
As he spoke, the Corpse Refining Demon Lord flipped his hand and took out a water lotus, in which two fish, one black and one white, were playing. He then took out an ancient black book.
He placed the ancient book next to the Stone Carving, looked at the empty space in front, and suddenly waved his sleeve. Overbearing black spiritual energy surged out, immediately pressing down the empty space in front by nearly a meter, forming a small pond.
After placing the water lotus he held into it, he finally said, “When choosing an inheritance, remember to act within your capabilities. I Hope the human race endures forever.”
The scene disappeared, but the information carried in the Corpse Refining Demon Lord’s words left Lu Chenxing unable to recover for a long time.
The human race was once the strongest race? There were also ten human secret arts? And the human race had its own Holy Land?
Later, the human race, as the strongest race, would face a disaster of extinction? And it was related to other races, perhaps even initiated by them? Did they even attempt to erase all traces of human existence?
This was completely different from the history of the Canglan World that Lu Chenxing understood! It completely overturned his perception!
However, he was a transmigrator after all. Although somewhat surprised, he still accepted this idea and simultaneously formed some of his own guesses.
“If this is true, then it must have happened a very long time ago, perhaps even before the Canglan World took shape.”
“The current human race, with the strength of only a mid-tier race, has been able to resist the allied forces of other races for so long and even counterattack. How then, as the strongest race back then, was it almost annihilated?”
After thinking for a moment, he had no clue. He simply flipped his hand and put away the recording stone, then looked at the spot where the black ancient book had been. It was now empty, clearly having been taken away by someone else in advance.
Thinking of the Zombie Village not far from here, Lu Chenxing seemed to guess how that Zombie Village came to be. “It seems I’ll have to make a trip to the Zombie Village later.”
Although he himself did not intend to practice such mind-affecting demonic arts, he could not allow this demonic art to circulate freely. It would be safer to obtain it first and then hand it over to big figures like Bai Yuntian for handling.
After briefly considering the next steps, Lu Chenxing stepped towards the edge of the pond.
The pond water was still clear to the bottom, but the water level was now much lower. Lu Chenxing looked down, and the source of the rich and pure light and dark elements was two carp, one pure black and one pure white.
And the moment he saw the black carp, Lu Chenxing’s eyes suddenly widened!
“Devouring all light… the spoils! Found it!”
The blackness of that black fish was a blackness that devoured all light, seemingly the opposite of light. The brighter the place, the blacker it became. In Taoist traditions, this is called Yin!
The Yin-Yang Way does not belong to any single element, nor is it exclusive to any one person. Instead, it is a pure force of rules! It is even a force of rules that anyone could potentially comprehend!
The reason Lu Chenxing felt that the surrounding elemental energy was only light and dark elements was also due to the influence of these two extremely complete forces of rules! They unconsciously converted all surrounding energy into the two forms of Yin and Yang.
This means that only two elements that are mutually generative and restrictive can exist here. The five-element and other elements do not meet the conditions. Although life and death are relative, the surroundings here are all rock walls, with no life present, so naturally there is no death either.
So, from a mage’s perspective, the energy here was only light and dark elements. Perhaps other professionals perceived other forms of energy, but Lu Chenxing did not know about that.
And his journey, fighting to get here, killing strange beasts, saving people, and eliminating bats, definitely met the requirements for the spoils!
It was also at this moment that the two carp seemed to sense his approach, so they came to the center of the pond and drew a circle.
Lu Chenxing somehow understood that this was telling him to enter the water and go to that spot.
Seeing this, Lu Chenxing stepped into the pond water. The originally one-meter-deep water was now only about sixty centimeters. After entering the water, it felt slightly cool, and then extremely pure energy surged through the pores of his leg skin and into his body!
Clearly, this water was not ordinary water, but rather a condensation of some pure energy! These two fish, formed by the Yin-Yang Way, were able to remain perfectly preserved to this day precisely because of this pond water!
A large amount of pure energy was greedily absorbed by Lu Chenxing’s body, comprehensively improving his physique, meridians, magic power, and all other conditions, pushing his physical quality towards the height of his talent.
Lu Chenxing clearly felt the pond water seemed to be dropping. This seemed to be the first test. If one’s talent was not high enough, they would have already been repelled by this pure energy! If one tried to force it, the only option awaiting them was to explode and die!
When Lu Chenxing, accompanied by the transformation of his body, walked to the middle of the two Yin-Yang fish, he naturally received the second instruction: to use his spiritual power to guide these two fish into his spiritual world.
