Who is spreading rumors that my filial piety towards them has changed?

Chu Mingkong played with the little sheep for a while, and then caught sight of Bai Niang out of the corner of his eye.

She appeared in the hallway outside the window.

Their eyes met, and Chu Mingkong knew he should go out and meet Bai Niang, otherwise she would go into the room on her own, and he would have to explain the baby flying around again.

"Go chat with Bai Niang, and let me hold Little Gugu too. Also, don't go too far away from Bai Niang." As soon as west Wangmu finished speaking, she had already picked up Little Gugu from a distance.

Just then, the cat started to get a little grumpy because it was uncomfortable moving around in the air, so the Queen Mother of the West simply picked it up and put it on the bed to play.

Tulip watched Chu Mingkong walk out the door, then looked at the babies still hovering in the air, and couldn't help but wonder:

"Even while chatting with Bai Niang, she can't forget to hold her babies; she really cherishes every moment while practicing her skills..."

Outside.

Chu Mingkong did not go far. The Queen Mother of the West was bound to him, and she could not go too far beyond Chu Mingkong.

If Chu Mingkong was the local deity of the Moonlit Wilderness before, then the Queen Mother of the West was like his local deity.

In order not to disturb her playing with her granddaughters inside the house, Chu Mingkong could only pull Bai Niang to sit down on a stone bench outside the house.

If it weren't for that incident that happened as soon as Asuluo returned, Chu Mingkong would have had a proper chat with Bai Niang after their reunion.

"Bai Niang, where have you been lately? Judging from how you broke through the boundary between the two realms in the Abyss, you must have been wandering in the depths of the Abyss for quite some time?"

When Bai Niang chats with Chu Mingkong, she will never sit "conformistly" but will directly hug him in her arms.

The hug was a little tight.

It's a bit suffocating.

Inside the house, the Queen Mother of the West was holding several babies, while outside, the White Snake was holding a large baby.

"I have been to many places, but there is not much value in exploring places outside the Abyss, because there are no legacies of powerful people left there."

Chu Mingkong, nestled within Bai Niang's bosom, nodded in agreement.

Indeed, the scoundrel who could sneak into the depths of the abyss to steal eggs must have a lineage that is not bad. Either he has been strong all this time, or his descendants are still shining brightly among the strong.

"I went to the ruins mentioned in the rumors again, but I found nothing. It was Qingse who helped me find the information about those ruins."

Finally, I returned to the depths of the abyss, hoping to discover something within the limited time available.

"Bai Niang must have discovered some great opportunity. I feel that you have become much stronger, and you are growing faster than me!"

Bai Niang didn't keep anyone in suspense or hide anything, revealing that she had found her past territory, and that her strength was merely a result of retrieving some "leftovers" from the statues and totems of the past.

As a manifestation of willpower, there should have been even more inside the statue, but how could such a power of willpower be spared when it is located in the abyss?

The parts she retrieved were all those that "survived" by attaching themselves to the Goddess's original essence.

However, it's difficult to determine whose part of the goddess's essence Bai Niang retrieved. In short, each goddess had a bit of it, so fragmented that even a goddess transformation at Qing Ning's level was impossible.

Chu Mingkong was stunned by the sheer volume of information conveyed in Bai Niang's seemingly simple and plain tone.

"...Bai Niang, your past status is equivalent to these supreme beings now! And you are the king who made it to the end! No wonder you were able to pierce through the body of the Heavenly Demon Emperor in one shot."

Faced with this information, Bai Niang's mention of her divine essence seems to have become secondary information.

"Its power has diminished considerably; it's not what it used to be."

Bai Niang's tone showed no joy whatsoever, as if she were talking about something very ordinary. Chu Mingkong, the listener, was even more excited than her.

He could only smile wryly at this. Even with her power diminished, Bai Niang's level was at least on par with, or even higher than, the current supreme beings.

After all, this is someone who has brought the power of extreme Yin to the level of an immortal!

However, a portion of the Goddess's essence is still scattered within the Abyss.

Does that mean that all the original essence of the goddesses remaining in this world and the heavenly realm are only a part of the whole?

"Bai Niang, have you found any clues about the egg thief?"

"Have."

Chapter 279 The Goddess in the Abyss

If Bai Niang says "no," then Chu Mingkong will be in trouble, as it means that this may become an unsolved case.

In the whole world, only those famous and influential people have the ability to do these things.

If Bai Niang has no clues, then it means that it might not have been done by the supreme beings. So who could the egg thief be?

The only explanation is that there is more than one era between Bai Niang's era and the present era.

It was stolen by the supreme beings of those eras, an era that has long since perished.

Thinking about it this way is a bit convoluted, but the result of this reasoning is that it points to other beings in the depths of the abyss as the culprit.

Then he can only accompany Bai Niang in the future, hunting in the Abyss and eliminating those beings deep within.

"So who is it? Could it be those two supreme beings who haven't even shown their faces yet?"

"No, but the thief is definitely one of the two, the Heavenly Demon Emperor and the Ancient Buddha."

"..."

This is not good news.

If it was stolen by some other being, they might have used a secret method to raise it as an offspring, which might have allowed Bai Niang to recognize it. But if it was done by the Heavenly Demon Emperor and the Ancient Buddha, then it seems that's out of the question.

Ultimately, their motivation for all actions is to absorb all resources and strengthen their own power.

"Please accept my condolences, Bai Niang... but I didn't sense much of your legacy from the Heavenly Demon Emperor?"

"Indeed, there wasn't much, because the Heavenly Demon Emperor took away the inheritance mark, which is equivalent to taking away only the cultivation technique and system, while most of the nutrients in the egg were taken away by the Ancient Ancestor Buddha."

If what was taken were cultivation techniques, then it might not be noticed. Those techniques might have become a way for the Heavenly Demon Emperor to circulate power within his body, subtly providing assistance to Him, rather than clearly affecting his aura.

But what about the ancient Buddha...?

After careful consideration, Chu Mingkong said:

“Ancient Buddha, I don’t seem to have sensed a similar aura from Him either.”

"I don't have any either."

Bai Niang said the same thing.

Chu Mingkong blinked blankly, for a moment thinking he had misheard.

Was Bai Niang joking with him? She also said that the Ancient Buddha took it away.

No, the ancient Buddha may have absorbed the nutrients from the snake egg, but he used them to nourish his future body in the underworld.

If you think about it this way, many things will make sense.

The Buddhist sect began working on venturing into the Abyss very early on; the large corpse found in the Abyss of the East Sea was a powerful testament to this.

When the Ancient Buddha and the Heavenly Demon Emperor plotted to steal the egg, the competition among these supreme beings was probably not focused on the physical realm.

Therefore, the ancient Buddha easily took away the "physical nourishment" that was not valued.

If this were today, the Heavenly Demon Emperor would never easily relinquish the opportunity to improve his physical cultivation to the Ancient Ancestor Buddha.

If the ancient Buddha had the ability to step into the depths of the Abyss so early, why are the Buddhist monks so panicked when they can't even enter the outer area of ​​the Abyss?

The ancient Buddha feared that his disciples might disturb beings like Bai Niang, and did not want to expose the Buddhism's suspicions.

He stopped dwelling on those details; in the face of time, those details no longer mattered. Knowing who did it was enough.

"That's perfect. We can take them all out later, as revenge for our brothers and sisters whom we've never met. By the way, how did Bai Niang confirm their suspicion?"

“There are colluders, other beings deep in the Abyss… I encountered them a while ago, and they revealed the information in order to beg for mercy.”

Unexpectedly, the clues were ultimately obtained from a "friend" deep in the abyss.

Chu Mingkong remembered that Bai Niang had mentioned before that she had searched frantically in the depths of the Abyss, but had to suppress her anger and turn back in order to protect the remaining eggs.

Unexpectedly, this second search uncovered a clue.

"Some of the old guys deep in the Abyss yearn to leave, because the Abyss is too monotonous and boring. They can only gradually forget themselves in the long slumber. Leaving the Abyss to find fun is perhaps the most valuable thing in their eyes."

Hearing Bai Niang's words, Chu Mingkong nodded in response.

However, there seems to be no trace of that level of ferocious beasts appearing in either the Heavenly Domain or the Earthly Domain, presumably because they were taken down by the combined efforts of the powerful beings of that time.

Chu Mingkong sighed and changed the subject away from the snake eggs:

"It's really a bit surprising that there are so many eras of rise and fall in this world."

Moreover, this rise and fall of eras is not simply a change of dynasties, but a complete annihilation of the world.

Bai Niang nodded gently:

"Yes, there have been many cycles before me, and each time it is similar: resources and power are gradually monopolized in the hands of a few people, and in the end, their every move can lead to the destruction of the world."

Then, everything becomes part of the Abyss in destruction, and after a long time, a similar new world will be born, repeating the same destruction.

The outer edge of the Abyss is actually the boundary between the depths of the Abyss and the present world. It's the present world that's gradually falling into the Abyss, and its appearance signifies that this world has entered another countdown.

Chu Mingkong recalled what Yuehe had once mentioned: back then, the Abyss was just the Abyss, without any so-called outer perimeter or ferocious beasts.

While this might be due to her limited cognitive and exploratory abilities, preventing her from discovering former overlords like Bai Niang, it also shows that the world at that time was much more balanced and normal than the current world order.

"Bai Niang, isn't there such a situation... where an unparalleled being has taken over all the resources early on and became the final victor without any conflict?"

In that case, wouldn't the world be spared from destruction?

"It should still be possible, but so far such a situation has not occurred. After all, only under pressure can people at the top be forced to constantly compete and become stronger, until the very end."

Chu Mingkong nodded hesitantly:

"That seems to be true; one is born in hardship and dies in comfort..."

Therefore, when this contest comes to an end, the loser perishes completely, and the winner, due to the collapse of the world, falls into the abyss and slumbers, forgetting himself when he awakens.

So, the sad truth about the world that Yuehe once mentioned... it turns out to be this.

When Chu Mingkong first learned about the Heavenly Domain and that it monopolized divine soul energy, he thought this tragic fact referred to…

Those who had the advantage of being first took away all the spiritual energy and spirit, leaving no way for their descendants in the region to become stronger.