Longzang

Chapter 966 Fish Return to the Abyss
With the boundary stone erected, the world began to slowly shift, the fortress was initially completed, and the transportation of mortals could now be put on the agenda.

After Wei Yuan erected the boundary stone, he waited for a while at the teleportation array. Several Dao Foundation Warriors then led Hulegaon out of the teleportation array and came to Wei Yuan.

Wei Yuan personally untied the Immortal Binding Rope from Hulegaon's hands, and then said, "Your cultivation is too high, so you have to make do with this."

Hulegaon expressed his understanding, and then followed Wei Yuan out of the palace gate. Suddenly seeing a well-equipped fortress city in front of him, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a moment and asked, "This is a human city? How long have you been building it?"

Wei Yuan wouldn't tell him that the fortress had only been under construction for two months, but the road had taken much longer. Wei Yuan then led Hulegaoen out of the fortress, handing him a map and saying, "This is a map of the surrounding area to help you find your way. Have you made up your mind?"

A resolute glint flashed in Hulegaon's eyes. He took out a piece of jade paper and said, "This is the history of my clan. You can read it after I leave. If I succeed in rescuing my people, I will naturally return to repay my debt. If not, my soul will return on its own after death and merge with the essence blood I left behind. At that time, you can find an ordinary boundary stone as a seed, water and cultivate it with my blood and sweat, and it will be able to advance in three years. Consider it my repayment."

Wei Yuan reached out to pat his shoulder, but a bad memory was instantly triggered, so he withdrew his hand and said, "Then you should come back alive. A single boundary stone isn't enough to advance your cultivation level."

Hulegaon said helplessly, "You really are insatiable!"

Wei Yuan laughed and said, "I can tell the difference between high and low value. Go with peace of mind, everything should go smoothly on this trip."

Hulegaon nodded and walked into the depths of the mountains.

After seeing Hulegaoen off, Wei Yuan returned to the fortress and opened the documents left by Hulegaoen, reading them carefully.

The mountain people have a glorious past, with the birth of countless great city-states and nations. However, the tribes also fought and conquered each other repeatedly, resulting in countless deaths and injuries.

At this moment, a young mountain dweller suddenly appeared.

He was able to cultivate on his own from birth, and at the age of ten, he was born with a Dharma form, which was said to be a terrifying three-headed giant. By the age of twenty, he had already become a Yujing. His mental world was an extremely rich rocky mountain where all kinds of scarce resources could be found, and even rare minerals that had been depleted for a long time were nurtured. He was immediately regarded as the last hope by many mountain people and skilled craftsmen.

He did not indulge in personal cultivation, but saw the disorganized state of the mountain people. So he traveled around, spreading his teachings and calling on all the mountain people to unite and expand outwards together.

He ascended to immortality at the age of thirty, shocking the entire mountain community. Even the most unruly ancient giant had to admit that he was indeed favored by heaven and earth, and then converted to Buddhism.

The mountain people's faith was originally the ancient full moon, but in his new doctrine, he himself is the only true God in heaven and earth, and is revered as the ancestor of stones.

Stone Ancestor led his sixteen ancient giants across the Hundred Thousand Mountains, converting mountain tribes to his faith. Those tribes that refused to convert were ruthlessly wiped out.

After unifying the mountain people's territory, the Stone Ancestor officially founded a new religion, whose totem was also the moon. However, to distinguish it from the ancient full moon, it was called the Crescent Moon Religion, or simply the new religion.

During the process of unifying the mountain people, the Stone Ancestor encountered many formidable enemies, suffered hidden injuries, and ultimately perished at the age of ten thousand. Before his death, he descended the World of the Heart to the mortal realm, scattering countless gems and minerals across the world, making the land of the mountain people incredibly rich in minerals. The Stone Ancestor himself then transformed into the Heavenly Dao.

However, shortly after the death of the Stone Ancestor, his designated successor, the new Pope Pug, also died mysteriously. The vast Crescent Moon Cult was immediately thrown into chaos, with one faction supporting Su Mei, the Stone Ancestor's most outstanding disciple, and the other supporting Long Ji, a direct descendant of the Stone Ancestor. The struggle between the two factions intensified, and they were unable to reach an agreement.

Not long after, Sumei also died mysteriously. His death ignited the fury of all the mountain people in his faction, and Sumei's disciple, Khalid, succeeded to the position of Pope. However, Khalid was just an ordinary mountain person, not a giant, so the Bloodline faction felt insulted, and the two factions completely broke off relations. A protracted and bloody war ensued, involving more than twenty ancient giants.

After this battle, Protestantism split into the Bloodline faction and the True Knowledge faction, which fought each other for millions of years, regarding each other as their only and eternal enemy, and often staging scenes of clan massacres.

Millions of years later, in the Golden Hammer tribe of the True Knowledge Faction, Hulegaoen was born. He was born with a special mission. But before little Hulegaoen could grow up, the tribe was surrounded by a sworn enemy. Several powerful bloodline tribes around them had long coveted the Golden Hammer tribe's unique technology for forging domain pillars, and thus meticulously planned this surprise attack.

In the chaos of battle, the Golden Hammer tribe's warriors were far outnumbered. All the strong male warriors were killed, including male children, and all the giants were felled and slaughtered. It was a complete massacre; only the female mountain dwellers survived and were then incorporated into new tribes, becoming tools for reproduction.

In the final moments, young Hulegaoen was thrown into a furnace by the enemy.

However, a secret technique had already been placed on him, and a wisp of his true soul, carrying the secrets of his tribe, flew into the void and eventually landed in the body of a boy from a small Liao tribe in the north. Many years later, the boy grew up and became a prominent and powerful figure, earning the title of Whip of the North. He was considered to have the potential to become an immortal and was even noticed by the Left Wise King, who wanted to turn him into a seed.

However, Hulegaon, who retained the memories of the mountain people, saw through the Left Wise King's conspiracy and refused to accept the infusion of divine power.

After that, the Whip of the North saw Wei Yuan at the northern mountain gate. However, the secret techniques of the mountain people of the Golden Hammer tribe gave him an extremely strong sense of danger. After glancing at Wei Yuan from afar, he immediately felt a chill run down his spine and avoided him from then on, not even wanting to appear on the same battlefield as Wei Yuan.

This is why Wei Yuan has never been able to catch him.

Afterwards, the Left Wise King was severely injured, the Battle of the Northern Mountain Gate ended, and Hulegaon was sent to the battlefield against the Witch Clan, where he was defeated and captured.

Although the Golden Hammer Tribe's secret techniques were powerful, on a battlefield where both sides had deployed several True Immortals, the benefits of these techniques in avoiding danger and seeking good fortune were clearly insufficient. After Hulegaon was captured, he was taken to the City of Heaven as a high-grade sacrifice to be offered to the heavens.

But once he left the True Immortal Battlefield, Hulegaon's Golden Hammer Secret Technique began to take effect again. So he pretended to be powerless to resist, but secretly broke the Witch Clan's Soul-Locking Secret Technique, restored his consciousness, and then escaped.

But Hulegaon never expected that he would encounter two mysterious abstract witches as soon as he escaped from the cage. Then, in a series of unexpected events, he fell into Bao Yun's heavenly tribulation and landed in the Azure Netherworld.

Upon entering the Azure Netherworld, Hulegaon realized that something seemed amiss, especially when facing the green-robed cultivator. He couldn't sense any danger from her, and her secret technique didn't even bother to give a warning.

After being pricked like a hedgehog, Hulegaoen realized that his consciousness had been suppressed and all his secret techniques had failed after she had just glanced at him.

The whole process was crystal clear, but even now, Hulegaoen still couldn't figure out how he had gone through such a long and complicated process, borrowing a route from the Wu tribe, and finally ending up back in Wei Yuan's hands.

Wei Yuan had a general idea of ​​the matter, but he didn't say anything.

Thinking back to the bait he used when he went fishing, Wei Yuan felt he would only have suffered a small loss if Hulegaoen hadn't returned. But if he could come back alive and successfully bring back the secret technology of the Golden Hammer tribe, that would be a huge gain.

Domain pillars are the boundary stones for the mountain people. In the future, Qingming can learn from domain pillars and start to create his own boundary stones.

This is the real big fish.

Wei Yuan hadn't expected that after casting his big bait using luck, it would take so long to see the results.

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(End of this chapter)