God of Pets

Chapter 605 Chen Guan's Schemes

After returning home, Chen Guan carefully studied the River God's life memories and found that he did not seem to be lying.

At least he didn't lie about the Great Xia King.

He Bo had always cultivated within his family, and from childhood to adulthood, he was the most talented genius in the family. It wasn't until he entered the Great Cave Heaven that he realized how weak and vulnerable humans were in the face of the Mystic Spirits.

At that time, humans had no place in the Great Cave Heaven, not even a city belonging to humans. They were weak creatures hunted at will by the Mysterious Spirits.

It wasn't until the Great Xia King opened up the Milky Way and slew countless terrifying spirits within it that humanity built its first city within the Great Cave Heaven.

Xiangliu, Fangfeng, and Wuzhiqi—these mysterious spirits are all secret deities of the Great Grotto Heaven, terrifying to an unimaginable degree.

When the Great Xia King led humanity in a bloody battle against the Milky Way, they suffered many major defeats.

The River God brought a mountain-splitting axe, a water-repelling sword pill, and a map of mountains and rivers to help the Great Xia King. He helped the Great Xia King split mountains and break through waters, slay the mysterious spirits and kill the mysterious gods, and finally establish the first city of mankind in the Great Cave Heaven.

Later, as humanity continued to develop, at its peak, cities were built within all ten grotto-heavens.

However, with the arrival of the Sky Secret Realm, almost all the humans in Shenzhou and the Secret Realm were wiped out, and all sorts of terrifying spirits emerged from the Sky Secret Realm.

Among them are ordinary Sky Spirits, whose combat power is at the Great Cave Heaven level, or even more terrifying. Humans have no chance to resist at all.

From the perspective of the River God, even top-tier human cultivators like them would find it extremely difficult to kill a Sky Spirit one-on-one, and they simply couldn't withstand the Sky Spirit's slaughter and invasion.

Since there was no hope left, the Great Xia King gave the River God a task: to take some resources and the Divine Cauldron, seal it within the Heavenly River, and then knock the Heavenly River, which was originally within the Great Cave Heaven, down into the Cave Heaven for concealment.

In this way, they can escape the pursuit of the mysterious spirits. When the mysterious spirits of the sky retreat, the descendants of the River God and the King of Xia can use this as capital to recreate a new generation of humankind.

The Great Xia King had been preparing for this plan all along, because through his research on the ruins in the secret realm, he had foreseen that the Sky Secret Realm would appear and cause the extinction of humanity, and had been preparing for it.

However, he hadn't made sufficient preparations when the Sky Realm descended. His plan wasn't perfect, so some problems arose after it was opened.

The frozen Milky Way was only able to be severely damaged and unsealed by Chen Guan using his spiritual power and the Underworld Emperor Sword.

Moreover, the bloodline of the Great Xia King, who was originally supposed to be brought into the Imperial Palace by the River God to be frozen and slumbered together, was not able to enter the Imperial Palace as scheduled.

Therefore, the Great Xia King's plan was not entirely successful, and many problems arose along the way.

Fortunately, after the Heavenly Secret Realm descended, the bloodline of the Great Xia King was not completely wiped out. Miraculously, they became one of the survivors and have continued to this day.

So when the River God saw Ma Xiaolong, his excitement and joy were indescribable.

He wished he could give everything to Ma Xiaolong, but Ma Xiaolong was too weak now, and the bloodline of the Great Xia King was no longer as glorious as before.

He Bo realized that he had to arrange everything properly so that he could leave the most important thing to Ma Xiaolong without anyone noticing, so that Ma Xiaolong could have a stable opportunity to grow up.

He planned to find someone to draw away the hatred and attention, giving Ma Xiaolong the most time and space to grow.

Unfortunately, despite his meticulous planning, he didn't anticipate that the person he used to attract hatred would actually eliminate him and take over the resources that the Great Xia King had originally prepared for his bloodline descendants.

"This River God's life memories are too realistic. Did that generation belonging to the Great Xia King really exist? If it did, why didn't Consort Ming know anything about it?" Chen Guan became more and more suspicious as he read on. Even if Consort Ming didn't know, he had never heard anyone mention that there was such a thing as an earlier human civilization.

Furthermore, no one can definitively say whether the ruins in those secret realms were actually created by humans.

The River God's memories of his entire life are so clear that it's hard to believe they aren't real.

However, after comparing the memories of the River God, Chen Guan found with some doubt that the spirits the River God and his companions encountered in the secret realm were somewhat different from the spirits they encountered now.

Within the same secret realm, the spirits that He Bo encountered were completely different in many ways from the spirits in this secret realm, with only a few being similar.

For example, the Beiman Mountain Secret Realm is now mostly inhabited by ghost-type spirits. However, in the River God's memories, the Beiman Mountain Secret Realm did not have many ghost-type spirits, but rather various ferocious beast-type spirits.

This made Chen Guan doubt the authenticity of He Bo's life memories.

Chen Guan had already figured out the uses of the Mountain-Splitting Axe, the Landscape Map, and the Nine Provinces Cauldron from the River God.

However, Hebo did not know how to use the real Divine Cauldron, because it was the secret divine treasure of the Great Xia King, and no one except the Great Xia King knew its true use.

He Bo only knew how to use the Nine Provinces Cauldron, but the Nine Provinces Cauldron was just a replica of the Divine Province Cauldron.

Although it was difficult to determine at the moment where Mingfei and Hebo's memories went wrong, this gain greatly increased Chen Guan's wealth, giving him the capital to truly establish an army.

Otherwise, relying on a single isolated city like Tianyang City without any source of resources, it would be impossible to support a real army.

In other words, the Ziyang Corps is currently very small in number, and it is only through their selfless dedication that it can barely maintain its existence.

Chen Guan knew very well that you couldn't expect everyone to be so selfless indefinitely; otherwise, it would be impossible to build a true military unit.

He needs manpower, money, and territory to expand the Ziyang Legion. Now he has the city, and although he has few men, he has enough. He also has money and equipment. What he lacks is territory and renewable resources.

Chen Guan's best option now is naturally to take over all of Nine Demon City's territory and make it his base.

"If there's a chance, we should take Taishan City as well. It's an important natural stronghold, protecting us from the demons on the outside and the Imperial Court and the ten great families on the inside." Chen Guan thought to himself, trying to find an opportunity to take Taishan City.

However, attacking Taishan City is completely different from attacking the Nine Demons' city.

When fighting the demons, the soldiers of the Ziyang Legion are fearless and willing to risk their lives.

But if they were to fight their own compatriots, the situation would probably be quite different.

Chen Guan had no choice. He was also afraid. He was afraid that while he was fighting the demons in front, someone would stab him in the back. If he was attacked from both sides, he would surely be doomed.

So before fighting the Nine Demons, Chen Guan had two things to do: one was to get the Reverse Yuan Technique from Tianyuan Sea, and the other was to take over Taishan City to prevent anyone from stabbing him in the back later.

Chen Guan's most important task now is to obtain the Reverse Yuan Technique; otherwise, without changing the secret method, he really can't improve his level.

(End of this chapter)