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Chapter 184 A Thousand-Year Conflict (23)
"Alright! We've heard about your past. Now, tell me how to repair Feilai Peak, shall we?"

After a brief silence, Xi Luo began to press on relentlessly.

The place Feilai Peak holds in Xi Luo's heart.

It is no longer simply a sealed place that imprisons numerous ghosts and gods.

That was the last memory the Huaijiang witch left her, and also the home she had lived in for a thousand years.

Therefore, Yu Shi could quite understand Xi Luo's anxiety.

"Xi Luo, you should change your impatient habit."

Now that I'm standing before you, are you still afraid I'll break my promise?

With a playful wink, Yu Shi continued in his unhurried tone.

"If you simply want to restore Feilai Peak, then you only need to ask a few mountain gods for help."

"But if what you want to repair is Ghost God Cliff, which can seal away a host of ghosts and gods, things won't be so simple."

As he said this, Yu Shi glanced at Li Boyang with a half-smile.

It was obvious that Yu Shi had long since noticed Li Boyang's little scheme and knew that the other party actually wanted to completely resolve the troublesome Ghost God Cliff.

As for the ghosts and spirits involved?
Whether they escape or die, Li Boyang doesn't care.

Li Boyang simply wanted to resolve the hidden dangers of Feilai Peak, and he didn't care about the lives of the ghosts and gods.

Yu Shi even vaguely guessed Li Boyang's subsequent plans.

The other party will definitely eliminate those unstable factors secretly before the great flood officially arrives in the Hundred Mountains.

This posed no challenge whatsoever for Li Boyang, who had mastered the Heavenly Mandate Bone Armor and the "Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets".

However, the Rain Master did not like Li Boyang's approach.

He did not want the spirits and deities that the Huaijiang witch had spent thousands of years trying to convert to be simply used by Li Boyang as a warning to others.

At the very least, some of these spirits, who were not born cruel but simply ignorant of good and evil, deserve a better ending.

Coincidentally, Yu Shi saw the possibility of that ending in Li Boyang.

"do you know?"

"Actually, the place where you are standing now is the place where the Gui Rong clan was once sealed."

Upon hearing this, Xi Luo was startled.

Even Li Boyang looked down in slight surprise and glanced at the ground beneath his feet.

Gui Rongshi is half of Shi Tianjun, and also one of the five gods of Gui Fang Kingdom.

Li Boyang always believed that the Houtian clan had only come into contact with the Guirong clan by chance.

The two sides complemented each other: Houtian clan ascended to become gods with the help of Guirong clan, while Guirong clan escaped the seal with the help of Houtian clan.

But now it seems that the situation is not as simple as Li Boyang imagined?
"Thirty years ago, before the Tufang Kingdom was destroyed, the Gui Rong clan was actually sealed here."

A rare hint of complexity appeared on his face.

The Rain Master was unsure whether the Huai River witch acted intentionally or unintentionally.

However, judging from the outcome, the other side's decision to seal the Gui Rong clan in the Tu Fang Kingdom was undoubtedly a brilliant move.

The fact that the belief in the Rain Master has been passed down for thousands of years and that sacrifices have continued uninterrupted is enough to demonstrate the character and perseverance of the Tufang people.

It was precisely because of this character that the Gui Rong clan was never able to truly bewitch the people of the Tu Fang Kingdom and replace the Rain Master's faith with their own.

Under these circumstances, it would be even more impossible to get the people of Tufang Kingdom to release the Gui Rong clan.

Left with no other choice, the Gui Rong clan had to cooperate with the outside world in the hope of breaking their seal through other means.

The Houtian clan and the Guifang Kingdom were another target carefully chosen by the Guirong clan.

A thousand years ago, the Gui Rong clan helped the Hou Tian clan, who were not yet gods at the time, to grow and helped the Gui Fang Kingdom develop from a small tribe into a powerful state.

The ultimate goal of the Gui Rong clan was for the Gui Fang Kingdom to annex the Tu Fang Kingdom and then release them.

Unfortunately, the Gui Rong clan, who spent his days hunting geese, ended up having his eyes pecked by one of them.

He thought his interests aligned with those of the Houtian clan, but he never imagined how much the Houtian clan, as ancestral gods, valued the Guifang Kingdom. After realizing that the Guirong clan was none other than the Shitian Jun who had nearly devoured the sun...

Houtianshi abandoned the alliance with the other party without the slightest hesitation.

Moreover, for the next thousand years, the Houtian clan deliberately suppressed the Guirong clan's power in the Guifang Kingdom.

From the initial two-dimensional gods to the current five-dimensional gods...

This system of gods, which appears quite peculiar to outsiders, was originally created to suppress the Gui Rong clan.

The other four of the five gods take turns sleeping.

The situation has always maintained a state where a deity is fighting against the Gui Rong clan.

Even the fact that the Tu Fang Kingdom was able to exist for over a thousand years right under the nose of the Gui Fang Kingdom was partly due to the deliberate guidance of the Hou Tian Clan.

Unfortunately, when we moved forward thirty years, everything had changed.

The genius high priest at that time, Youxiao, was bewitched by the Gui Rong clan and was determined to become the next ancestral god of the Gui Fang Kingdom. Therefore, he chose to wage war against the Tu Fang Kingdom.

By the time Houtianshi awoke from his slumber, it was already too late.

Gui Rong clan used the power of the Prison Soul Cauldron to refine the entire Tu Fang Kingdom into a ghost god, both to vent their anger and to counterbalance the Hou Tian clan, Qing Mu clan, and Tun Chao clan.

"Only after this battle can the Gui Rong clan truly break the seal."

When the Rain Master got to this point, a look of realization flashed across Li Boyang's face.

By piecing together all the clues and events, some of the truths that had troubled Li Boyang naturally came to light.

It was after this battle that Youxiao chose to defect to the Guifang Kingdom.

This was also because he had personally witnessed the Soul-Refining Cauldron's ability to refine ghosts and gods.

That's why the owl didn't forget to take this national treasure with it when it fled.

Of course, this takes into account the existence of the Gui Rong clan.

Whether the Ghost Rong clan was behind the theft of the Prison Soul Cauldron by the Nether Owl is a matter of opinion.

From Li Boyang's perspective, he is more inclined to believe that the Gui Rong clan deliberately let Youxiao take away the Prison Soul Cauldron.

This was to prevent the Houtian clan from continuing to use the Prison Soul Cauldron to refine demons and gods similar to the Hijikata clan, thus hindering them.

In fact, ever since they learned that the Gui Rong clan was actually the Shi Tian Jun.

Li Boyang actually had his own judgment about the origin of the Prison Soul Cauldron.

The incantations and talismans on the Prison Soul Cauldron are an incomplete variant of "energy talismans" constructed using an exhaustive method.

Who else could do this besides Shi Tianjun, who once admired the witch of Huaijiang?
Li Boyang estimated that the Prison Soul Cauldron was probably the initial reward given by the Gui Rong clan to the Hou Tian clan and even the Gui Fang kingdom.

At the very least, it's a backup plan if Houtianshi fails to advance to the celestial god level.

Given Houtian's personality, as long as it's for the sake of Guifang Kingdom, even if it means becoming a demon god like Tufang, he would never hesitate for a second.

"After all this beating around the bush, what are you trying to say?"

After staring at Yu Shi for a long time with a frown, Xi Luo's impatience made him laugh again.

"Have you ever wondered how Wu Yao sealed away the Gui Rong clan back then?"

"He is the manifestation of the evil intent of the Eclipse Lord, possessing most of the Eclipse Lord's supernatural powers..."

"What kind of seal do you think could suppress Him, and even prevent Him from breaking free for a thousand years?"

After a slight pause, Yu Shi continued with a knowing smile.

Li Boyang hadn't reacted yet.

Xi Luo suddenly opened her eyes wide, as if she had realized something.

"Could it be... that my sister left 'Him' here?"

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(End of this chapter)