Chapter 92: Truth Of The Guardian Beasts?
The entire thing seemed extremely creepy to Lin Wu and looked like an evil ritual.
“Are they cultists? What the hell are they doing?” Lin Wu wondered.
After the three controlled men were stabbed their blood did not spill out. Instead, it started floating and formed a stream of blood which then started covering the three statues. Soon the three statues were stained blood red.
Once all of the blood had been drained out of the three men, their bodies fell to the ground. A different formation array appeared in the circular area between the three statues and sent out waves of spirit qi. These waves of spirit qi reached the dead priest and tried to affect him.
But perhaps because the priest was dead, nothing happened and the waves failed. Then the three statues glowed in a blood red light which slowly increased in intensity.
Shirong and the rest moved to the back and let everything happened. Bei Wen had a slightly confused expression and seemed to want to ask something, but did not want to disturb. A minute passed during which the blood red light kept on increasing in brightness and was now covering the entire room.
“Why are we doing this though Young master? I mean what use would this old and broken temple of the three guardians be?” Bei Wen questioned unable to hold back his curiosity.
Ye Dai looked at Bei Wen and Shirong fully expecting him to be bothered by Bei Wen’s question. He knew that his young master did not like to be disturbed at important moments such as these. But surprisingly Shirong was calm and did not become angry.
“Most people do not know, but each of the temples of the three guardians are linked together. This is a secret that only a few clans and sects know. Even if this temple had now nearly been abandoned and is not used for worship, it still has the formation array that links it to the other temples. And as long as this formation works, the temples can interact with each other.” Shirong spoke.
While Bei Wen got the answer, he still seemed confused.
“But what is the use of this Young master?” Ye Dai asked, seeing that his young master seemed to be in a good mood.
“You know the story about how the three guardians came to be?” Shirong questioned.
“Yes, the three guardians appeared in a time of strife ten thousand years ago. They stopped the great war that was happening back then, and peace was restored to the world. After that, the people started worshiping the three guardian beasts and the three great clans were established.” Ye Dai answered.
“Correct, but what most people don’t know is the reason behind the great war. The great war was actually… an invasion.” Shirong revealed.
A shocked expression appeared on both Ye Dai and Bei Wen’s faces. Even Lin Wu was very interested in this, as this was not mentioned in any of the documents that he had read in the rings. Even the data nodes that he had obtained from the dead men did not have this kind of information.
But the story about the establishment of the three guardian beasts that Ye Dai said was something Lin Wu had learned from the data nodes. This was something that nearly every person in the world knew.
“Hmm, so the full truth behind it was hidden from the masses. How… cliche,” Lin Wu muttered.
“Back then this world was quite backward, and there were no immortals that had ever appeared. The invaders were actually cultivators from a different world and were attacking this world to obtain its resources. This is something that was quite common and is the same thing that happens every day in our world too. The only difference is that we fight for resources amongst ourselves while they were fighting an entirely different world.
The invaders were clearly much stronger and more proficient than the people of that time. Our world’s people were on the losing side until when three powerful clans of that time found ancient relics. They didn’t know where these relics were from, but had just randomly found them one day.
These relics were none other than the three original statues of the beasts that became guardians of our world. The clans awakened the relics and summoned the three great beasts. The might of the three great beasts was incomparable to the invaders, and they were quickly defeated.
After that, the three great beasts were requested to become the guardians of our world. The beasts agreed, and in exchange, the clans established the religion of the three guardian beasts. The guardian beasts would bless some people when they were happy with them and bestow them with great abilities.
They would also help in the times of distress and could answer questions. Though a lot of these things reduced and the three clans started controlling the words. They erased the information about the things that the temples could do and only let the people know of worshiping them.” Shirong explained.
Ye Dai and Bei Wen had complex expressions after hearing this and knew that this information was something that they never would have been privy to had it not been for Young master Shirong.
“Then what the clans want to do is…” Bei Wen uttered with realization.
“Yes… somehow they were able to find an old tome which mentioned a ceremony that can be used to seek the guidance of the three guardian beasts. Since they think the bloodline suppression was created by the beast of the forbidden zone, and that it is an otherworld beast, they thought it would be best to seek the guidance of the three guardians.
I do not know what the three guardians would do, but it is likely that the presence of the green crystal spear could be revealed. These past few days I could feel that the spear had suppressed itself, and now I knew why it was so.
The guardian beasts stopped the invaders, thus they would definitely know if a beast and weapon of a foreign world appeared in this world. While I want this information too, I cannot let the clans find out about it.” Shirong spoke.
“Damn, this is some big brain play.” Lin Wu said, feeling amazed.
