Chapter 399 - 395: Auric Sea, What Lies Beneath

Chapter 399 - 395: Auric Sea, What Lies Beneath

The specific targeting of the Auric Sea made Wei Wuyin recall something that Wu Yu mentioned when they were discussing various matters years ago. According to him, the Divine King Han Xei had a huge problem with dragons of the starfield. For some reason or another, he had acted in genocide.

Curious, he asked what these dragons were like. He had met Anu, a living and breathing dragon that was struggling for lifeforce. It didn’t seem to hold any hatred towards him specifically, lacking the distinct anger of a species that went nearly extinct by a human’s actions.

He believed the dragons might be in hiding or in hibernation, awaiting for the right time to awaken. But he felt that wasn’t correct. So when Wu Yu explained that dragons were originally the rulers of this starfield, he was shaken.

In ancient records, the dragon lineage of beasts was a species that was present before humans or elves, and the planets and continents were their living grounds. While demons existed alongside them, creating an off-branch of demonic dragons, there were no humans or elves beforehand.

Without them, there were no beastmen that were born from them. It was strictly a starfield ruled by dragons, and their power levels were extremely high. Unlike humans, elves, or just cultivators in general, beasts at the Star Beast level could travel amongst the stars, soaring and surviving through the Dark Void. They seemed to be able to resist the unique Chaos Mana with relative ease.

Not all beasts had wings, but they could all ’swim’ through mana.

They weren’t a very intelligent society and lived on the most basic animal kingdom rules. But one day, humans and elves had arrived in the starfield and started to develop. The dragons would mostly ignore them, eating a few that bothered them too deeply. There were even records that depicted dragons as abhorrent bloodthirsty creatures that consumed humans and elves like they were great enemies.

But if that was true, humans and elves would’ve long since went extinct before they got the chance to grow. Wu Yu didn’t believe those records as they defied common sense. As for how or why humans or elves came about, he felt it had to do with the concept of Void Gates.

No matter what, it seemed very strange that the advanced method for storage rings and Void Gates existed in a nascent cultivation society before Realmlords were even a thing. It was as if they were carried here from elsewhere alongside these newly arrived humans and elves.

"..." Kratos remained silent for the longest moment. After that, it spoke in a hoarse voice that seemed to carry indescribable emotions, "They’re alive."

"...!" Wei Wuyin’s silver eyes constricted after those words. His Celestial Eyes were pushed to the maximum by instinct trying to look into the Auric Sea, but to no avail.

"..." Eden, Ori, and King. They all seemed to be sending support to Kratos, causing Wei Wuyin to feel its emotions even clearer. It was a sadness of untold levels. A sadness that he had once felt in his life. It was when he looked back at that moment, knowing that everything he knew and loved was gone.

When he felt the wetness on his face, his heart and hands trembled. "You can feel them?" He slowly asked with his eyes slowly closing, the tears dropping and crushed by the twisting force.

"I can hear them..." Just as Kratos said this, it completely opened up its senses, fully linking them to Wei Wuyin. Then, he finally heard it. He heard something that he wouldn’t forget for the rest of his life.

SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-oOoOrrRrRRrrnNK!!!

BA-REEEEEEEEEEE-AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUURRRRNN!!!

Rheeeeeeeeeeegha-ohwoooooo!!!

It was a cacophony of roars, a continuous stream of sounds. When Wei Wuyin heard these sounds, these roars that seemed to be ever-present but forever distant, he realized why he was crying just by connecting with Kratos.

These...

These weren’t roars.

They were screams...