Chapter 79: The Everlasting Being

Fortunately, people like Chi Xulong were seasoned veterans who wouldn’t spill the secrets of the demonic sect just because they were locked up; otherwise, Helmsman Chu would have to consider silencing them permanently.

Helmsman Chu sent a message, inviting Lu Yang and his friends to Yanjiang Lodge for the official initiation ceremony.

As for the reckless bunch, they would cool their heels in jail for ten days first.

Helmsman Chu sat leisurely on a jade chair, looking up at the three standing before him, praising, “Your barbecue restaurant idea was good. Keep it up; it’s a channel for us to establish connections with the officials.”

Helmsman Chu dismissed the attendants, who were entry-level sect members not yet tested and not qualified to know the sect’s secrets.

“Let’s go, I’ll take you to pay homage to The Everlasting Being.”

Helmsman Chu led the three to another floating stone, where the construction, of unknown era, had collapsed under the erosion of time. The sourceless light made it look gloomy and oppressive, walking among these ruins gave a profound sense of traversing through history.

Even someone as learned as Meng Jingzhou couldn’t discern the era of the construction.

This was definitely not a construction from the Great Xia Dynasty’s ten thousand years!

Meng Jingzhou was secretly shocked, these buildings must be at least a hundred thousand years old!

“Could it be from the Great Yu Dynasty?”

According to historical records, the last emperor of the Great Yu Dynasty was decadent, leading to the dynasty’s disintegration and chaos throughout the land. Meng Jingzhou’s ancestors and the ancestors of the Xia Emperor rose in rebellion, vying for the central plains.

The Dao Seeking Sect was established twelve hundred thousand years ago, during the Great Yu Dynasty’s prime, unshakable in its position.

At the end of the structures, there stood a statue about four meters tall, resembling the one seen in Qin Yuanhao’s home, with a vague face, dressed in a robe, indistinguishable in gender, indeed The Everlasting Being.

Helmsman Chu held up three lit incense sticks, bowed deeply to The Everlasting Being, then turned to the three and said, “Meditate for half an hour, clear your mind of distractions.”

This incense was not ordinary; smelling its fragrance, their restless hearts gradually calmed down.

Clearing one’s mind was basic training for the three, and Helmsman Chu nodded slightly upon seeing how quickly they settled down.

“If The Everlasting Being is not resurrected, who will protect the vast Central Continent? Once the ancient monsters awaken, the dead will number far more than this.”

“Is the ancient era really that terrifying?” Lu Yang felt a chill in his heart.

Helmsman Chu remained silent, gesturing for the three to follow him.

He led them past The Everlasting Being’s statue, through ruins that had decayed and crumbled over time, discovered by the sect’s founder by chance a thousand years ago. Here, he learned of The Everlasting Being’s existence.

“The Everlasting Being has been forgotten by the world, once a guardian of the world. It was our founder who brought him back into the world!”

“Our founder replicated the relics and preserved them at various locations; this site is one of them, with a history of ten thousand years.”

Meng Jingzhou thought to himself that these were replicas of ancient relics; no wonder he couldn’t recognize them. Only legends have been passed down from the ancient era, with very few physical items surviving.

Helmsman Chu stopped in front of a stone wall, “This is it, a sacrificial scene from the ancient era.”

The first thing they saw on the stone wall was The Everlasting Being with open arms, holding numerous spheres of different sizes, some surrounded by ring-like objects, unidentified.

Each sphere had a figure kneeling on it, offering tributes to The Everlasting Being.

“What are these spheres, and why are people standing on them?” Meng Jingzhou and Barbarian Bone were puzzled.

Lu Yang’s pupils contracted upon seeing the mural; the spheres looked just like planets from his previous life, surrounded by rings of asteroid dust.

Helmsman Chu slowly explained, “These are called planets. In the ancient era, there was no Central Continent; all beings lived on planets.”

“At the end of the ancient era, an unfathomable entity refined all the planets, creating today’s Central Continent!”

This revelation left the three in shock!

(End of the chapter)