Chapter 1266 The Lost Era

Chapter 1266 The Lost Era

A new kind of snack appeared before Wang Wei, and it looked like gelo, to be specific — a slime. It took him a moment to recognize it as the Spine Fluid from a creature called the Dragon-Spine Lizard. This thing can instantly raise an Empyrean's soul by 30%.

Wang Wei shook his head. Sometimes, it was a curse to be too strong. He slowly ate, and as described in the records, it was also quite delicious.

"By the way, how come Xun Junyao's faceless situation is not a much bigger deal," Wang Wei asked.

"No one can see through it, except probably these two," Wu Hong replied as she also enjoyed the spine fluid.

"No one? Including Paragons?"

"Yes."

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"She showed it to me," Wu Hong explained. "She wanted to see if I could seal her flaw and give her a face. Sadly, I couldn't do it then."

"Then?" Wang Wei caught the crucial part of her words.

"After reading about the Perfect Foundation and learning more about Perfection, I think I can make a flawed seal."

"Flawed? Is it because the essence of perfection is transcendent level?"

"Correct," Wu Hong nodded. "So, my seal might give her an ordinary face. However, I'm unsure if I want to do that now."

"Oh, why?"

"I kind of agree with you," Wu Hong explained. "Of all living beings, she has probably the highest chance of taking a step in the transcendent path. If I act now, I might ruin her potential."

"Do you want to allow her to choose?"

"Yes, but only after she sees you."

"What do I have to do with this?"

"You'll see."

"Don't start acting like those old cultivators who like to act all secretive, only revealing half the truth and talking in riddles."

Wu Hong rolled her eyes. "Some things are simply not my business."

"Of, come on: give me something."

"She has a mental barrier to overcome, and meeting you is the key. That's all I'm willing to say."

Wang Wei looked at her.

"I did the next best thing," Wu Hong sighed. "I sent the time storm to a future time point. After all, if the past me dies, I'll also die."

"Ruthless," Wang Wei commented. However, he would have done the same. "What happened afterward?"

"I killed her as quickly as possible before preventing the storm from continuing too much damage," Wu Hong sighed. "I tried to revert things, but it was too late. That era was gone entirely. The best I could do was ensure no contradiction between my era and the next."

Wang Wei nodded as he understood. Some people in the Myriad Emperor World have lived since before the Devil Era. As such, they should have detected some anomaly about an entire era missing. However, there was nothing. Everything looked regular and perfectly continuous.

Wang Wei sighed. He knew Paragons were on another level, but events like this put it into perspective.

"So, how did you face Heavenly Dao's wrath?"

"With merit and oath," Wu Hong replied. "I had to borrow plenty of merit to offset my crime by a certain margin and to get Heavenly Dao to listen to me before judging me. Then, I swore to create the best defense system for the Eternal Ascension World. I only fulfilled that oath after I became a Primal Paragon."

When she thought about how much time she had spent being indebted to Heaven and Earth, with her luck almost ruined, Wu Hong gritted her teeth in anger and hatred.

"Why did that woman hate you so much? It doesn't make sense to do all of this just because of losing to someone of a lower realm," Wang Wei said. The Curse Master would never have survived this ordeal intact as Heavenly Dao would also judge her.

"In fact, your ordeal reminded me of my Supreme Outlaw Trial," Wang Wei continued. "It sounds like someone was manipulating events to either kill you or make you indebted."

"I'm 80% convinced Heavenly Dao did it on purpose," Wu Hong sneered.

"Oh? Why?"

"Have you never wondered why our world did not suffer much given the grand scale of the Second Origin War?" Wu Hong.

"Now that you mention it," Wang Wei frowned. "With so many Chaos Worlds and factions involved, I'm sure the center of the war would have been our world. So, we survive because of your defense system?"

"That's right," Wu Hong sneered. "That thing probably predicted that event and schemed against me to create that system."

"Without becoming transcendent, all sentient beings are dogs and ants before Heavenly Dao. Even Paragons are a slightly bigger nuisance," Wang Wei sighed. "So, have you prepared your revenge?"

"Yes, not just against it, but its boss," Wu Hong sneered. Although all these years spent creating that system was an excellent training experience, she hated how much she was used.

"That's my girl," Wang Wei chuckled.

"Who's your girl?" she stared at him.

"Don't sweat the small stuff," Wang Wei replied casually. "So, what was that era like? What happened to the Emperors who ascended? Did any of them become Paragon?"

"It was a terrible era," Wu Hong explained. "The resentments, hatred, and Fiendish Qi of me killing so many devils flooded into the Myriad Emperor World, making it extremely easy for people to develop Heart Demon and become crazy. It also did not help that all the cultivators were full of hatred, wishing nothing more than to kill as many devils as possible."

"Historians called it the Dark Mind Era," Wu Hong explained. In some ways, it may have been a good thing that that era was erased.

"As for what happened to the ascendants? Heavenly Dao just erased them to reduce the trouble," Wu Hong explained. "And no, there were no Paragons."

Wang Wei wanted to slap himself for asking such a stupid question. She said she had just become a Paragon, and from what I know about her, she was probably one of the youngest in recorded history. If Wu Hong had just become a paragon, how could the people who came after him become a Paragon? So, unless more time shenanigans were involved, that would be impossible.