Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 518: Chapter 339 Star Gate

Zhao Sheng reflected for a moment before he countered with a question, “Then do you believe that True Immortals exist in the Universe World?”

Without hesitation, Zhao Zhongque answered, “Of course True Immortals exist, and the Immortal Realm is indeed as real as it gets.”

“Since that is the case, so it is with divine beings. True Gods and True Immortals both possess immense divine skills and boundless mana. For us Cultivators, what difference is there between these two?”

Having said this, Zhao Sheng seemed lost in thought before asking again, “Taoist, your question is quite peculiar. Could it be… that this ‘divine being’ is greatly related to the warfare between the two realms?”

“Mr. Xuan, you truly have a keen mind. Indeed, the hasty conclusion of that war years ago was indeed related to a newborn divine being. In the Tianzhu Realm, there’s an ocean called the Shattered Star Sea, within the Shattered Star Sea…”

Upon hearing Zhao Zhongque mention the Shattered Star Sea, Zhao Sheng instantly had an epiphany. Piecing together the multitude of information he had heard in his past life, he knew that the outcome of the war was indelibly linked to the Star God.

Although Zhao Zhongque’s explanations were vague, the brief explanations of just over a hundred sentences allowed Zhao Sheng to discern some of the behind-the-scenes truths about the warfare between the two realms a thousand years ago.

Back then, during the battle at the Golden Wall of the Heavenly Burial Plain, the forces of the Netherworld Ghost Realm, mainly driven by the Heavenly Dao Sect and the Black Sky Sect, were repeatedly blocked by the Sect Alliance at one side of the Time-Space Rift, unable to secure a solid victory.

After a year of warfare, the Time-Space Rift was resealed by the Great Sealing Array.

The Sect Alliance thought they had won a complete victory, but a few years later, shocking and terrible news suddenly came from the direction of the Shattered Star Sea.

Though Zhao Zhongque did not mention the specifics, he only spoke of how the three great Overlord-level powers of the Shattered Star Sea had colluded with the Blood Demon Sect, the Seven Mysterious Sect, and other Demon Path forces to deliberately lure the Star God into becoming a Fallen Demon.

With a Blood God’s Son as a sacrifice and using the authority of the Star God in administering the Heavenly Dao, they were actually successful in tearing open a Space-time Vortex near Star God Island, with the other end of the Vortex leading directly to the seas near Wuzhou in the Netherworld.

The Star God Palace was caught off guard that year, and the entire Star God Island was torn to shreds by the power of space-time, with a million cultivators perishing with it. As a result, the Cultivation World of the Shattered Star Sea was greatly weakened and unable to resist the assaults from both the Sea Demons and the Netherworld Ghost Realm.

Thus, within a short span of twenty-odd years, the Shattered Star Sea was plunged into utter misery. The vast majority of spirit islands were conquered, and countless members of the Human Clan were captured and taken to the Netherworld, where they became slaves.

As for the Cultivators with a Spirit Root, if they willingly surrendered, it was one thing; but if they refused to submit, at best they were used as breeding machines, at worst they were skinned and deboned to be processed into zombie ghost creatures, reduced to cannon fodder for the armies.

Zhao Zhongque did not discuss the tragic condition of the Human Clan in the Shattered Star Sea at the time, but Zhao Sheng could still sense from his words just how… bloody and tragic it was.

Due to the Shattered Star Sea being billions of miles away across a great ocean from other continents, the support forces from other continents could by no means arrive at the battlefield in time.

Even if a small number of Nascent Soul and even Divinity Transformation Level high-rank combatants did make it there, they would be mere drops in the bucket, even recklessly throwing their lives away, unable to change the overall tide of the war.

Having been reincarnated for many years, Zhao Sheng knew full well that the overall power of the Netherworld should still be above the Tianzhu Realm.

Therefore, he was extremely curious about how the Tianzhu Realm had managed to turn the tide and even cause the sinking of Wuzhou’s land after losing a tenth of its territory at the time?

From Zhao Zhongque’s implications, ever since the end of the great war to the present day, the Tianzhu Realm and the Netherworld had been continually engaged in a covert war, with incessant infiltration on both sides never stopping.

The Heavenly Rebel Alliance was the best proof of this.

However, what Zhao Sheng was curious about was how, such as Zhao Zhongque and other undercover agents, had managed to secretly travel to this realm?

So many years had passed, and he had always wanted to return to the Tianzhu Realm to see how many of his old acquaintances were still alive.

“Back then… with the situation so dire and the Tianzhu Realm hanging by a thread, how did the Divinity Transformation True Monarchs and Nascent Soul Ancestors manage to pull back from the brink?”

Faced with Zhao Beixuan’s curious gaze, Zhao Zhongque smiled smugly and suddenly said, “Mr. Xuan, you’ve hit the nail on the head. Were it someone else, I wouldn’t say a word. At the time, the Netherworld suffered a huge defeat, escaping back to their realm in a pitiful state. The defeat was so devastating that they had no face to speak of it. To preserve their dignity, the Heavenly Dao Sect has already omitted most of that history. Apart from a very few individuals, the vast majority of Cultivators in both realms are unaware of the details.”

“From what you’re saying, you know?”

“I know a bit.”

“I would like to hear the details.”

“I am from the Southern Sky Zhao Family, and Mr. Xuan, you and I vowed to the same ancestor a thousand years ago. You must know that with Divinity Transformation True Monarchs of our clan in position, the many secrets of the Tianzhu Realm could never escape our family’s notice.

When talking about the pivotal turning point of the great war between the two realms, it’s impossible not to mention a few key individuals. The Star God is naturally one of the main characters, followed by the Star God Palace, an Overlord-level power of the Shattered Star Sea at the time, as well as Ying Zhao and Huori, the two Divinity Transformation Palace Masters at that time.

Mr. Xuan, you could never guess that this involves a great hidden secret from tens of thousands of years ago.”

At this point, Zhao Zhongque suddenly stopped, lifting his head to observe Zhao Sheng’s expression.

However, little did he know, the person before him knew far more about the matter at hand.

After all, this was the man who had once directly faced the Star God.

Through Zhao Zhongque’s vague and sketchy words, Zhao Sheng’s mind was already swept up in a storm of memories, and he swiftly pieced together most of the “true” picture.

The incubating Sea God… the Heaven and Earth Law Net… raising… the Star God Palace… the Great Abilities of the Upper Realm… the great cross-realm warfare between life forms tens of thousands of years ago…

The more Zhao Sheng thought, the clearer it became, with a gleam of divine light gradually shining in his eyes.

Seeing this, Zhao Zhongque was somewhat confused, as his original intention was to lure the other party in with a secret to pique their interest and make them comply willingly.