"Kunlun Mountain is a place where our ancestors once lived and cultivated... As for this mural and the exploration of Star-Treading City..."
Saying this, Yue Yan turned to look at Yue Fei Xue.
"It was to verify the authenticity of what was described on these murals... It's laughable..."
Yue Fei Xue's expression was quite emotional. "These murals... were actually discovered by people from the Dark Holy Cult first..."
"The Dark Holy Cult? What the hell is that?"
Ye Feng was very puzzled. "How did it get involved with this organization again?"
"This Dark Holy Cult is truly strange..."
"Me, Ling Xi, and Sister Leng, when we were previously searching for the King and the Stone of Hope... we discovered that this organization had also investigated the civilization of the Angel race... and knew a considerable amount!"
Upon hearing this, Qiao Ying couldn't help but frown.
"Hoo!"
Yue Fei Xue took a deep breath and slowly said, "In the very beginning, we thought the Dark Holy Cult was just a bunch of lunatics spreading doomsday prophecies... until those people killed quite a few cultivators... and discovered the murals on Kunlun Mountain..."
"After that, we specifically investigated the Dark Holy Cult... and found that this organization was not simple at all. It had actually existed for over a thousand years... but had always remained hidden in the shadows..."
"Then, for some unknown reason, these guys suddenly became active..."
"Before the great cataclysm even began, many strange things had already appeared on Earth... various seemingly accidental catastrophic events... and the shadow of this organization was behind them..."
"Later, we studied the murals on Kunlun Mountain... and discovered an unbelievable fact..."
At this point, Yue Fei Xue paused. "That is, our ancestors of Great Xia... could already leave Earth thousands of years ago... and soar into the endless starry sky... drinking wine by the Milky Way, and sleeping amidst the vast cold..."
"Star-Treading City built the interstellar battleship... precisely to verify the truth of the contents of the murals on Kunlun Mountain..."
"Hoo!"
Yue Fei Xue took another deep breath and said, "There was a guy in the Dark Holy Cult who called himself an 'archaeologist'... The rumor that cultivators became powerful because they secretly ate from the Igo Divine Tree came from that guy..."
"The absurdity is... that quite a few cultivators actually believed this nonsense... and this sowed the seeds for the near-total annihilation of cultivators later..."
As Yue Fei Xue and Yue Yan spoke, their faces showed obvious sadness.
"Cultivators were almost completely annihilated?"
Hearing this, Ye Feng was immediately surprised.
"Yes!"
Yue Fei Xue nodded. "After the great cataclysm... especially the terrifying Tide of Darkness... only a handful of cultivators survived..."
"The reason why Star-Treading City built the Lone Sail at that time, and adventured to explore the edge of the solar system... was to investigate the truth of the matter..."
"After reaching the edge of the solar system... besides Apollo's 'corpse'... we also discovered this..."
As her voice fell, a flash of light appeared from Yue Fei Xue's hand, and a pile of huge stones appeared before Ye Feng and the others. They were murals in the same style as those on Kunlun Mountain.
"According to what these murals say... cultivators become stronger by sensing the power of heaven and earth, and tempering their bodies and spirits. It has nothing to do with secretly eating some Igo Divine Tree fruit! This is consistent with our cultivation all along..."
"But the Dark Holy Cult's 'archaeologist' insisted on fabricating some seemingly plausible evidence... saying that cultivators became powerful because they secretly ate the fruit of the Igo Divine Tree. They demanded that we abandon our cultivation and start anew to prove our innocence..."
"Because of this... some cultivators were so angered that, to prove they hadn't eaten the so-called Igo Divine Tree, they did as they were told... This even included some highly respected elders..."
"But those who abandoned their cultivation and planned to start anew later inexplicably committed suicide or died in accidents..."
"Then rumors spread that those cultivators had indeed secretly eaten the fruit of the Igo Divine Tree, and after abandoning their cultivation, they couldn't continue to cultivate without the fruit of the Igo Divine Tree... so they committed suicide in shame..."
Yue Fei Xue's words were filled with obvious anger. "This is utter nonsense!"
"Those people from the Dark Holy Cult weren't trying to prove whether cultivators truly ate the fruit of the Igo Divine Tree at all. They just wanted cultivators to abandon themselves, right?"
"Those suicides... are probably also problematic..."
Hearing this, Ye Feng couldn't help but mutter.
"Exactly!"
Xiao Xiao nodded and continued, "Big Brother once told me a story. Someone said that a person named Li Si ate a bowl of noodle soup, but was accused of eating two bowls. He was only charged for one bowl. In the end, Li Si was forced to cut open his own belly to prove that he had only eaten one bowl of noodle soup, but no one really cared about the truth!"
"But speaking of which, some highly respected elders actually abandoned themselves... This... is their brain malfunctioning a bit..."
Ye Feng was somewhat speechless and puzzled.
"That's how it happened, but the situation is a bit complicated!"
At this moment, Yue Yan spoke. "Our Great Xia ancestors... were beings who could 'drink wine by the Milky Way and sleep amidst the vast cold'... Countless cultivators spent their entire lives, neglecting sleep and food, desperately cultivating, all in order to reach such a realm..."
"They would not allow anyone to say that their ancestors became strong by secretly eating someone else's fruit... This kind of humiliation was more unbearable than killing them..."
"And the absurdity is... there were a bunch of idiots, imbeciles, and trash among the cultivators..."
Yue Yan was clearly very angry about this. "Those people didn't cultivate properly themselves and made no progress. In the end, they colluded with people from the Dark Holy Cult, saying that those highly respected elders became so powerful because they secretly ate the fruit of the Igo Divine Tree... and because they didn't eat it, their cultivation had no effect..."
"Hoo!"
Yue Yan took a deep breath to calm herself. "Perhaps it was also because of this... that some elders would... And those scumbags later joined the Dark Holy Cult during the great cataclysm and acted as moles..."
"Ye Feng, that Su Jianying you encountered in the desert before... he was one of the leaders among them!"
Yue Fei Xue interjected.
"Trash can be found everywhere!"
Hearing this, Ye Feng frowned slightly.
"Fei Xue, did you discover anything else when you went to the edge of the solar system back then?"
After observing the stone murals Yue Fei Xue had produced, Ye Feng inquired.
"Yes!"
Yue Fei Xue replied. A flash of light appeared from her hand, and a black stone tablet appeared before Ye Feng.
"Huh? Is that an arcane rune?"
Seeing the stone tablet Yue Fei Xue produced, Ye Feng couldn't help but be surprised. wap.kanshuwu.net
"Yes!"
Yue Fei Xue nodded. "It records what the so-called Igo Divine Tree is all about!"
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