I Can Reap Qi Fortune from Players-Chapter 644 - 131: Ancient Murals, Dragon Ancestor Biography (Fourth Update)

The time goes back to five minutes earlier.

Xin Xichen hid in the shadows, watching the nine Dragon Emperors walk away slowly.

After confirming they had completely left, he secretly sneaked in and entered the sealing ground.

Soon, through the narrow corridor, he saw the murals deep within the Ancestral Temple depicting the story of the "Dragon Ancestor Biography."

This story is completely different from the "Ancestral Human Biography," very simple, even crude.

It was merely a few ambiguous murals depicting the historical scenes from the ancient times of the "Ancestral Human Biography."

The first picture.

On the mountain top, a mysterious figure received worship from various creatures in the tribe, creatures including plants, marine life, animals... these ancient Demon Beasts instinctively worshiped.

They offered limbs of various animals, food, seemingly praying for something to that figure.

"A sacrifice?" Xin Xichen's first reaction was, "Just as I expected, in ancient times, there must have been a period of sacrificial rituals."

"However, since it's worship, a sacrifice... there must be something they desire? What are those ancient life forms expecting?"

He squinted his eyes, carefully pondering the information above.

Soon, he discovered a subtle point: all these beasts were very old, entering their twilight years.

"What they hope to obtain is immortality? Something like lifespan?"

Immortality, eternal life, is something every era dynasty's powerhouse pursues, even an Emperor cannot escape the custom.

Otherwise, they wouldn't carefully craft their postmortem tomb, hoping to resurrect and live a second life.

Xin Xichen's gaze fell on the second picture.

The god being worshipped seemed to be weaving something, researching something over the old corpse.

Behind him, the corpses were stacked high as mountains, after countless research, a devout sacrificial believer's corpse revived, a Spirit Body appeared on him.

The spirit body of that believer absorbed the flesh and blood, fully reincarnated, and returned to the youngest appearance.

Witnessing the lost corpse coming back to life, countless creatures cheered, more devout believers appeared.

"On the corpse, weaving, researching, something happened... Ghost?" Xin Xichen's expression subtly changed, "That mysterious figure is creating the world's first... Ghost?"

The third picture.

Those creatures who "came back to life," initially seemed fine, as days passed, their bodies began to twist, distort, and they began to eat their companions, heading in an uncontrollable direction.

They pieced various creatures' limbs onto themselves.

The common people were caught off guard by the "revived" creatures, suffering heavy casualties.

In the picture, they devoured various limbs, turned into creatures with frog legs protruding from eyeballs, there were Giant Monsters with palms dancing crazily atop their heads.

More so, a large toad had its back densely packed with heads of all kinds: chicken heads, duck heads, snake heads...

Creatures revived upon the body... their physical states crumbled.

The immortality they longed for seemed to have brought about a great disaster.

"These murals depict ancient times, the Sacrificial Era, indeed it is the primordial era... the birth and origin of Ghosts!"

Xin Xichen laughed, a flash of joy and delight on his face from gaining knowledge and information.

Ghosts, this thing, indeed wasn't naturally formed... In ancient times, they lost their loved ones, wanting to revive the corpse, thus researched the corpse... hence, the first batch of revived "loved ones" appeared.

Ghosts and Pseudo-humans alike are forms of biological disasters.

It's just, Pseudo-humans lurk within Innate Spirit Roots, later generations of humans gradually became accustomed, not knowing that upon opening Three Flowers they'd instantly be possessed.

The Embers, however, hide among the dead and can resurrect.

Only this disaster has no self-awareness, doesn't possess, it's a passive outbreak of the [Embers Virus], this virus has persisted until now, making people accustomed, Embers Virus exists in every biological body, people already consider biological death with a certain probability of producing Ghosts normal.

"These Ghosts... should be the first generation of Ghosts."

"Today's Ghosts have structural stability, circulating logic, Ghosts in human form are human-shaped, Ghosts in dragon form are dragon-shaped... whereas the primordial ancestor Ghosts in the mural before us, were more ferocious, violent, and inherently unstable."

"Their ghost body would collapse, distort, could wantonly hunt, merge with other creatures, eventually completely disfigured."

"The entire era entered an unbelievable mode of grand evolution and leap, every day, countless grotesque ghosts were being stitched up, being born."

With just one mural, Xin Xichen, a genius with comprehensive knowledge, as Nine-State's first real detective, understood what happened within.

That Sacrificial Era was the most terrifying in history!

Numerous primitive creatures were devoured, stitched up, becoming part of the limbs.

"And furthermore, these monsters bear an uncanny resemblance to the giant prehistoric mountain creatures behind the Nursery..."

Dao Yueniang eloquently analyzed:

"Those huge prehistoric Embers behind the Nursery must be the initial generation Embers of this stage then, twisted, distorted, huge, exuding intensely ominous aura! Utterly repulsive!"

This might count as a historical riddle unveiled.

The uncanny things behind the Nursery most likely are mixed ghosts that appeared during the Sacrificial Era.

The instability of ghosts during those times.

The harm they caused, could be innumerable times more terrifying than the Pseudo-human Calamity.

After all, Pseudo-humans are a rational race, aiming for survival, whether possessing the Human Race, or other behaviors, these are all logical.

The Pseudo-human Calamity couldn't compare to this chaotic, frenzied Embers Disaster.

So, how was this apocalyptic disaster resolved at the time?

They continued to look toward the next mural.

Within the mural.

The sky was dark, the world's end had come.

A multitude of monsters appeared on the earth, twisting, roaring.

Yet among the enormous numbers of mixed ghosts, a portion oddly entered semi-awakened.

They began to know they were "already dead," kneeling, sobbing bitterly.

These mixed ghosts regained rationality.

They began trying to end the chaos.

Moreover, they initiated a mode of big fish eating small fish, starting to utilize their characteristics, piecing together various creatures' limbs, completing their glorious extraordinary evolution.

They even saw the original forms of some primordial era overlord giant beasts.

Due to the piecing and stitching, some top extraordinary creatures began to emerge!

The fifth picture.

They saw the birth of a Dragon.

The Dragon Race awoke amidst the chaos, becoming the world's first generation Ghost King.

By piecing together organs of various species, they became the most perfect creatures of that barbaric era.

Thus, the first Ancestral Dragon was born!

In the image, the Ancestral Dragon roared, below were countless mixed twisting ghosts emitting dark ominous aura.

"The mural ends here?"

Xin Xichen frowned, the rest were all blank.

From the perspective of "Dragon Ancestor Biography," the storyline is complete, narrating the process of the first Ancestral Dragon's birth.

But... How was that chaotic era ended?

How did those frenzied mad primordial Embers transform into the relatively mild Embers of later generations?

"And what about Pseudo-humans?? How did Pseudo-humans come into being?"

Seeing this, Xin Xichen felt even more baffled.

The Pseudo-human Calamity and the Embers Disaster likely were two great calamities and faintly interconnected.

Meaning...

The seal beneath our feet, what ancient era's mega Embers is sealed here?

Previously, the Human God was the Pseudo-Human King, controlling all Pseudo-humans.

But this unknown creature... is the King of Embers, controlling all Embers?

Xin Xichen said, "What might be inside here could be the first Ancestral Dragon... or perhaps the Immortal they sacrificed and worshipped, that mysterious creature creating ghosts??"

Dao Yueniang chuckled coldly, "No wonder they guard this so strictly, if this thing were released... once the world's Embers resurface, revert to ancestral forms, their structure collapse, begin absorbing organs everywhere, this disaster could be a hundred times more frightening than the Pseudo-human Calamity."

"Their intentions might not be good."

Xin Xichen coldly laughed:

"The Dragon Race is a super race born from a collective body of Embers, they originate from Embers... They sealed this thing away as a treasure, perhaps intending to study it, hoping to gain that supreme power from it!"

Now within the seal are only two possibilities.

The first possibility is the Immortal in the mural sacrifice.

The second possibility is the initial Ancestral Dragon, parallel with the initial Human God.

"No matter which it is, it's a very troublesome thing," Xin Xichen contemplated.

At this moment.

Suddenly, the entire seal abruptly shook, a weak voice emerged, an ominous chill rapidly surged forth.

"Are you all... looking for me?"

The voice paused, gradually regaining vitality, as if some truly terrifying ancient barbaric creature had reemerged in this era.

"Welcome, to return to my world of evolution."