Zi Lingling fell into deep thought, unnoticed by the Dark Gale Leopard.
It continued on its own, "After that person woke up, he came to the fork in the road we just passed.
Whether it was his incredible luck or not, he directly chose this extremely safe path and arrived at the location of the seal.
Without seeing him do anything, the seal shattered!
You must know that after we transformed into demonic beasts, we were sealed in the depths of the Dark Abyss.
And no matter how many times we had impacted that seal, its power had not diminished by even a bit, let alone shattered!
So, the moment the seal shattered, all the demonic beasts, as if sensing it, madly rushed towards the broken seal.
That scene could be described in two words: a beast tide.
With the beast tide surging, that person couldn't dodge at all and could only retreat while fighting, all the way back to where he had fallen.
But once he retreated to that spot, he had nowhere else to go and could only fight back with all his might, killing the demonic beasts in the beast tide.
This battle lasted for ten days and ten nights.
The corpses of demonic beasts piled up layer upon layer, and their blood formed rivers.
What is a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood? That is it!"
Listening to the Dark Gale Leopard's narration, Zi Lingling could perfectly imagine the scene at that time.
A flicker of fear appeared in the Dark Gale Leopard's eyes. Even after twelve years, remembering the scene from back then still sent chills down its spine.
"Master, have you ever seen beasts in a beast tide being scared to death?"
Zi Lingling shook her head.
Beasts in a beast tide had lost their minds, utterly disregarding their own lives. Therefore, they would never feel fear.
But the Dark Gale Leopard said that the beasts in the beast tide were scared to death, which showed just how bloody the situation was at the time!
The Dark Gale Leopard shook its head, driving away the fear in its heart, and then continued, "The demonic beasts in the beast tide were so terrified that they could only retreat while fighting, trying not to get entangled with that person.
This continued until all the beasts retreated back within the seal.
That person, with a great saber, guarded the seal, preventing all the demonic beasts from daring to take even half a step further.
And the place he guarded was precisely this path without danger.
The demonic beasts wanted to rush out, but with a god of slaughter in front of them, no one was willing to court disaster again.
For this reason, the demonic beasts had no choice but to choose another path.
And precisely because of this, those demonic beasts, frightened by that person, lost more than half of their numbers again.
As for what lay on that path, no one knew. In any case, the demonic beasts that entered that path never came out again.
This is why I said that to ascertain the truth of these two paths, we used up the lives of many demonic beasts as fill!
In the end, we still couldn't even cross half a step past the seal.
Thus, on one side was the unyielding might of a single man holding back ten thousand; on the other was a path of great peril that countless fresh demonic beast corpses could not fill.
This standoff lasted for three months, and our demon beast world's greatest king—Lord Demon Dragon—had no choice but to negotiate with that person.
The final outcome was that all past grievances between the two sides were settled.
Lord Demon Dragon allowed that person to explore within the seal, and in exchange, that person needed to share the safe path with the demonic beasts.
And so, the storm passed, and everything calmed down."
The Dark Gale Leopard finally finished recounting the events and let out a heavy sigh of relief.
Even though it was just narrating the whole incident, it still felt oppressive.
Zi Lingling listened, her blood boiling, as if she had participated in the great battle of those years.
She asked, "Does that person often guard the former seal location?"
She didn't even realize that her voice trembled slightly when she asked this question.
There's a saying, "Near hometown, timid heart." She was now feeling timid as she neared a family member.
The Dark Gale Leopard looked back at her in surprise and shook its head, "That person doesn't guard the seal all the time.
For the past twelve years, he has spent three-quarters of the year deep within the Dark Abyss.
As for what he's doing, no one, oh no, no beast knows, because no beast dares to ask him, the one who saved Lord Demon Dragon."
Zi Lingling felt a pang of bitterness in her heart. She could guess that Zi Guochang's constant presence in the depths of the Dark Abyss was likely due to his search for a way home.
She asked with a sliver of hope, "When you came before, did you see him?"
The Dark Gale Leopard slowed its pace and said, "No, a few days ago, a man came here.
After that person saw the man, he took the man to find Lord Demon Dragon!"
Zi Lingling was inwardly startled.
She was now extremely certain that the "person" the Dark Gale Leopard was referring to was her father, and the "man" the Dark Gale Leopard mentioned was Ye Lingyuan.
According to the Dark Gale Leopard's account, Ye Lingyuan had already met her father, Zi Guochang.
But what puzzled Zi Lingling was, what did they talk about? And why did her father take Ye Lingyuan to see Lord Demon Dragon?
As for who Lord Demon Dragon was, she didn't need to think to guess.
Legend had it that a divine dragon in the Dark Abyss had been demonized.
Therefore, Lord Demon Dragon mentioned by the Dark Gale Leopard should be that demonized divine dragon.
As one person and one beast spoke, they arrived at the seal location from that year.
At the seal location, a rudimentary cave had been dug out. It was likely Zi Guochang's dwelling place for these past years.
Looking at the simple cave, Zi Lingling's nose stung.
How similar had their experiences been over these years?
The original host lived in the Zi family, abused by her wicked uncle's family, living a life of insufficient food and drink, until she was finally tortured to death, her life extinguished, only then allowing Zi Lingling, who had transmigrated, to take her place.
And the original host's father, Zi Guochang, beneath this abyss, perpetually shrouded in darkness, consorted with demonic beasts day and night, tormented by longing, constantly searching for a way home.
And the original host's mother, Yue Wu Mei, was suffering somewhere unknown at this very moment!
This family, with some dead and some separated, was as tragic as could be.
If Zi Lingling had still harbored some resistance towards her identity when she first transmigrated,
then after nearly a year of reflection, she increasingly felt that she and the original host were one and the same.
It felt as if they were originally a whole, but had been forcibly divided into two parts.
Therefore, in her heart, just like the original host, her feelings for her father, Zi Guochang, had deepened day by day through prolonged waiting and longing.
This was why, upon seeing Zi Guochang's rudimentary living conditions, her nose stung.
Zi Lingling paused there for a moment, then urged the Dark Gale Leopard to walk into the seal.
They say a day apart feels like three years.
Now, she wished she had wings to fly to the sides of the two most important men in her life.