Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Jiang Yi chose to listen to Yin Ruobing. The Buddha Thearch was a man with extreme wisdom and intellect, seemed very benevolent, and cared about the whole world. Jiang Yi had wanted to head directly for the North Thearch City. However, he decided to go and pay a visit to the Buddha Thearch first instead. The Mystic Divine Palace used Heaven Evasion again as Jiang Yi brought a few thousand people and flew straight for the East Imperial Continent.
In reality…!
At this moment, the East Imperial Continent was not that peaceful either. A few of the bigger regions in the middle of the continent were engaged in a fierce battle. The conflict seemed to be escalating as the days went by; it had already implicated dozens of neighboring regions.
The cause of the conflict was also not clear, and the few big regions had started to battle. The scale of the battle had expanded such that in just more than a month, dozens of neighboring regions had been sucked into it. In any case, the center of the continent was now in complete chaos; battles were raging everywhere with countless people dying daily. In more than a month, tens of millions of people had perished.
As there were a hundred and eight regions on the continent, a battle among a few regions was something very common. Hence, the Nine Thearch Clans had initially deigned to intervene, thinking that it was a struggle between two ancient clans. However, after realizing that the situation was getting worse by the day, the Xuan Thearch could not sit still anymore and sent a few Demigods to make peace; he did not want the situation to deteriorate further.
After the Demigods from the Ling Clan arrived, the situation was swiftly under control. The few great family clans had also been suppressed, promising not to fight again and recalled their soldiers. However, the conflict here had just been resolved when another incident occurred in the central-east part of the continent. The Mo Clan and another ancient clan had started to fight. However, the Zhan Clan did not respond to the matter, and the two clans battled it out. They had even activated their vassal clans as well as clans that they were on good terms with to join in; yet another huge battle was started.
When Jiang Yi and company had arrived at the East Imperial Continent, something big happened in the southeast of the continent; and a few big regions went to war with each other. Besides that, the Pegasus Continent and the Beastmen Continent also declared war on each other as well.
As news of these events spread, the entire East Imperial Continent was in an uproar. There have been too many battles recently, right? Furthermore, the reasons for the battles were minuscule and bordering ridiculous; they were all because of trivial matters. Both sides then started to fight and, as the fighting escalated, became full-fledged battles.
If it was before, the Nine Thearchs would have probably gathered to find out the problems and discuss ways to solve them. However, after the incident with Jiang Yi, the Battle Thearch—who had always been the one to gather the other eight for meetings—had been very quiet; so was the North Thearch. Hence, the other Thearchs had communicated among themselves and could only send men to investigate and try to find out what the reasons behind the string of large battles that had occurred were.
The Buddha Thearch, Xuan Thearch, and company all sent men to either mediate each conflict or find out the cause behind them. Meditation turned out to be easy: once someone from the Nine Thearch Clans appeared, the situation then became under control. However, as for the reasons why the conflicts began in the first place, there was no answer to that. For example, the Mo Clan and another ancient clan had started fighting when two young masters from their clans became jealous of each other, and one of them had accidentally killed the other in a duel. After that, one clan could not stomach this matter; and one of its martial experts led troops to attack the other clan, leading to the war between both sides.
That an inconsequential young master had died; that did not count as much at all!
In the past, matters such as this could easily be discussed; and compensation was given to resolve the matter. However, this time both sides were extremely reckless and after the Nine Thearch Clans had intervened, the two clans both indicated that they regretted their actions. Wasn’t the whole matter ridiculous?
After investigating the matter, the envoy from the Nine Thearch Clans also did not want to probe further. Since the war had stopped and since there was indeed a reason behind it, there was no point in furthering the investigation. If he continued, people might start to think that the Nine Thearch Clans wanted to be the arbitrary dictators.
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Jiang Yi had been cooped up inside the Mystic Divine Palace and had not come out. He had started cultivating by then. In the Mystic Divine Palace, his cultivation speed was now ten thousand-fold. If he continued to cultivate at such a speed, it would not be a problem transforming his seventh star sphere.
From the Stellarsky Continent to the Buddha Region at the northeast of the East Imperial Continent, the journey was very far. If it was an ordinary Heaven Monarch martial artist flying instead of using a Teleportation Formation, it was a journey that would take eight to ten years. However, Jiang Yi used less than twenty days to arrive there; the Mystic Divine Palace’s speed was indeed fast.
After Jiang Yi neared the Buddha Region, he decided to fly instead of using Heaven Evasion. He initially wanted to find the Buddha Thearch at the small lake. However, when he reached the lake, he received a voice transmission from the Buddha Thearch, asking Jiang Yi to head to Buddha Mountain. The Buddha Thearch had always been staying near the small lake; this time, he had actually gone to Buddha Mountain. Jiang Yi’s face became very serious. Could something major had happened?
After he brought the Mystic Divine Palace to Buddha Mountain, he entered the Buddha Thearch’s study under the guidance of Yi Chan. His heart skipped a beat as he was pretty sure that something had indeed happened. The Buddha Thearch’s expression was very serious; he was frowning so much that his ash-white brows were almost joined together. He did not even greet Jiang Yi when the latter entered.
“What has happened?”
Jiang Yi asked in a low voice. The Buddha Thearch took a look at Jiang Yi, gestured towards Yi Chan and said, “Little Chan’er, update Jiang Yi on the situation.”
Yi Chan had taken off her mask after entering; her face was equally serious. She took out a map and hung it on the wall. The map detailed all the continents on the Stellarsky Domain. She stretched a finger and pointed, saying, “In the past two months, thirty-eight battles had taken place on the East Imperial Continent; more than one billion people had perished. The Pegasus Continent and the Beastmen Continent had also declared war on each other; more than one hundred million martial artists and civilians had died. A Beast Tide had taken place in the Blood Night Fearsome Sea and had exterminated three continents to its south. Jiang Yi, even your home continent—the Stellarsky Continent—had encountered trouble, right? Hundreds of millions of people had died? In total, more than two billion people had died in the past two to three months.”
“What?”
Jiang Yi’s eyes widened, and he looked at the Buddha Thearch in disbelief. Two billion people had died in two or three months? How many people were there in the entire Stellarsky Domain? Although Jiang Yi was not sure—if this continued, the entire human race would be extinct within a year or two.
The Buddha Thearch shut his eyes and sighed heavily, saying, “The Mystic Thearch had seen into the future. He had left a warning for us once before—when the Mystic Thearch Palace resurfaces, that would also mean that the Stellarsky Domain would face a huge calamity; he was indeed right!”
“A huge calamity?”
Jiang Yi’s eyes flashed as he thought of the final words the Mystic Thearch had left him: “The Stellarsky Domain might not be very peaceful in the coming years. You must remember that if you have the ability, you must use all your strength and protect the human race; even if you are not able to triumph, you must preserve a portion of the human race.”
Jiang Yi had not taken the Mystic Thearch’s words seriously prior to this and had forgotten about this matter after the battle at Mystic Thearch City. At this moment—after hearing the Buddha Thearch’s words, he finally recalled them. It had only been a few months since the Mystic Divine Palace had appeared; more than two billion people had died already in the Stellarsky Domain. Could the Mystic Thearch be right, and a big calamity was imminent?
“Why has war broken out in the East Imperial Continent?”
Jiang Yi asked curiously. He suddenly thought of something and growled, “The situation at the Stellarsky Continent was not a calamity; someone was pulling the strings behind the scenes. Some of my closest friends have all been captured. Though the Beast Tide happens only once every few hundred years there, it had occurred again only a few years after the previous one; this is definitely the work of someone. Some people had also said that black-robed men had attacked places in the Stellarsky Continent.”
“I also know it is the work of men!”
The Buddha Thearch laughed bitterly as he shook his head, sighed, and said, “Everything is the work of men! However, this mastermind is hidden too deep; we cannot find any leads at all. Before long, even more people would die on the continent. What is laughable is that the Battle Thearch, the North Thearch, the Evil Thearch, The Beast Thearch, and others are all minding their own business; I had sent messages asking them to come over to discuss this matter, but everyone had rejected.”
Jiang Yi’s eyebrows rose as he asked, “That mastermind, is there a possibility that he is from one of the Nine Thearch Clans…?”
“Impossible!”
The Buddha Thearch’s tone was as adamant as Yin Ruobing’s. He said, “The Nine Thearch Clans have our clans rules; no one has the balls to do so. Even if the clan head really went crazy, the grand elders of each clan would never agree to such a thing. The mastermind is definitely not from the Nine Thearch Clans.”
