Running A Cemetery in North America-Chapter 375 - 252: The Story Brought by Xu Fu (Part 2)

It all has something to do with Xu Fu, or he’s the piece he placed in the long river of time.

No one knows why Xu Fu, this immortal who has been undying since the pre-Qin era, did all this, but it certainly has his deeper intention.

And now, this initiator has appeared before him, surprising Sun Yan.

"It seems that little friend already knows me. In all these years, I have never actively contacted any Tomb Guardian. You are the first and also the most special one I’ve seen. Perhaps if it’s you, we can cooperate a bit."

Knowing that Xu Fu has certainly been planning something in secret all these years, with a profound purpose.

Although Sun Yan has three Tomb Guardian Gods, he doesn’t think that in terms of scheming and experience, he could be a match for this old thing who has lived for thousands of years.

Cooperating with him might get him trapped by Xu Fu, just like Yang Shengsi as a precedent.

"I have nothing to cooperate with you on. Leave Lin Wan’s body, and leave my residence. Although I don’t know what you’ve been plotting all these years, you’d better not provoke me or play any tricks on me, otherwise, I will make you regret it," Sun Yan said coldly.

"Hahaha, little friend is truly cautious. But it’s understandable. For a historical figure like me to appear, it’s reasonable for you to have apprehensions. However, this time, I come with sincerity. Aren’t you, as a Tomb Guardian, curious about where Tomb Guardians come from, and who established the Grand Sacrificial Society to gather you all together?"

Xu Fu looked at Sun Yan calmly, confident that no Tomb Guardian could resist this curiosity.

The existence of Tomb Guardians is the greatest secret under the heavens. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Sun Yan was silent, lost in thought.

About the secret of Tomb Guardians, he was certainly curious.

Whether it’s the notebook, or the rewards received from missions, or the Graveyard Guardians with only a trace of incarnation left.

Those are truly existent Immortals in myths.

Why Tomb Guardians are linked with Immortals, Sun Yan has been searching for this answer all along.

"If little friend has time to listen, why don’t I tell you a story?"

Xu Fu took a sip of tea and slowly said, "Long ago, there was a box. This box was self-contained, cyclic in nature, and over a long period, life emerged inside the box,

among which there were long-lived beings and short-lived beings. All beings could, through cultivation, gain the power to command wind and rain, but evidently, long-lived beings had an advantage in this process, able to cultivate longer and with greater power,

Thus, short-lived beings naturally fell into disadvantage, gradually enslaved by long-lived beings, and were even deprived of their right to cultivate, completely losing any chance of a comeback. Those short-lived beings daring to resist and continue cultivation were exterminated. Have you heard of ’covering the universe’s number is 129,600 years as one Yuan’?

Ancient people thought that at the beginning of the universe’s chaos, the original state and essence of all things was ’Yuan’. In ’Guan Yin Zi·Two Pillars’ it mentions ’first thinking of the Qi of one Yuan, it encompasses one thing. With love, conforming to its form, observing in silence to conform to its reason, then all exist’. Dong Zhongshu in ’Spring and Autumn Dew·Jade and Flower’ mentioned ’one Yuan, the great beginning’.

In the ’Spring and Autumn Annals’ it said, interpreting one Yuan, one is the beginning of all things, Yuan as the word for greatness. Saying one as Yuan, seeking the great start and wishing to straighten the root.

In the ’Imperial Polarity World’, it talks about thirty years as one generation, twelve generations as one cycle, thirty cycles as one meeting, twelve meetings as one Yuan; the Immortal Family extends this saying, someone who could obtain one Yuan, could enjoy the fortune of longevity. The ’Profound Pearl Heart Realm Annotation’ writes ’those who obtain one Yuan can endure hardship and loneliness, contemplate silently to refine form, naturally the spirit condenses, and the bones and flesh melt’.

Do you know why so many ancient texts mention the saying of one Yuan? It’s because each time a Yuan arrives, long-lived beings conduct a grand purge against short-lived beings, eliminating those with rebellious hearts, leaving only ignorant and obedient short-lived beings for breeding.

This state lasted a long time. But in the absence of enemies, it accelerated the long-lived beings’ own complacency. They believed their long life, and the power gained through cultivation was enough to suppress short-lived beings, then indulged in pleasures, not realizing short-lived beings secretly passed down cultivation methods, amassing power,

until one day the time was ripe, and the leaders of the strong short-lived beings initiated a war to drive the long-lived beings out of the box, exiled and left to wander.

In that war, many beings died, they once existed, but after death, they could only become memories of their kin, turning into one after another ethereal stories."

Listening to Xu Fu’s narrative, Sun Yan crossed his fingers, "You mean, long ago all Immortals had a great war? Then who are the long-lived beings, those gods of the Celestial Court?"

"Anyone who looks like a mortal is a short-lived being. Those long-lived beings are entirely different species from us. Originally, the short-lived beings banded together to expel the long-lived beings from the box, but they paid a heavy price. Many short-lived beings died, and the remaining short-lived beings then sealed the box, eternally guarding outside the box, preventing the return of long-lived beings."