EBE Chapter 12778 The Hidden Secret
Chapter 12778 The Hidden Secret
Chapter 12778 The Hidden Secret
Ye Chen deduced the auspiciousness and inauspiciousness and found that if he fought alone, he was not afraid of any of the Great Sun Clan members, but if they joined forces, their numbers would make them difficult to deal with.
"Come with me."
The Holy Lord of Candlelight beckoned to Ye Chen and led him to a secluded courtyard.
A plaque hangs above the gate of the courtyard, bearing the three characters "Ke Chen Lu".
"You may stay here for now. This is a place where our Great Sun Clan receives outsiders," said the Holy Lord of Candlelight.
Ye Chen said, "Didn't you say you don't welcome outsiders?"
The Holy Lord of Candlelight smiled slightly and said, "That's not entirely true. We still need to deal with some high-ranking members of the Proud Sun Holy Land. It's just that ordinary people aren't qualified to come in."
He paused, then continued:
"Let me tell you some rules. There are three commandments in my Twilight Domain, and you must remember them."
"Firstly, one must not approach within a hundred feet of the central sacred spring. The sacred spring is the foundation of our Great Sun Clan and the source of the Bitter Wine of Twilight. If outsiders approach and pollute the water, they will be guilty of a great sin."
"Secondly, one should not talk to people in the clan. Clan members are eccentric and do not interact with outsiders. If you talk to them rashly, you will only bring trouble upon yourself."
"Thirdly, never set foot in the 'Ancestral Meteor Crater,' which is a forbidden area for our Great Sun Clan, extremely dangerous. Those who violate this rule will have their bodies and souls burned to ashes!"
Ye Chen frowned slightly and said, "Why are there so many rules? If I want to seize the Yang Chapter, I can't stay here forever. Senior said he would help me."
It would be extremely difficult for Ye Chen to search for the Yang Chapter alone and aimlessly. It would be best if the Holy Lord of Candlelight were willing to help him.
But now, the Holy Lord of Candlelight has spoken of many rules.
The Holy Lord of Candlelight smiled slightly: "I am only telling you that these rules exist, but rules are meant to be broken."
"If you want to seize the Yang Chapter, you must first drink the Twilight Bitter Wine and use the essence of the blazing sun in the bitter wine to build a Yang foundation. Otherwise, you will not be able to get close to the Yang Chapter and will only be burned to death by the pure Yang flames of the Yang Chapter."
"You can stay at Kechenlu for now and rest well. I'll go and make the arrangements first. Once everything is settled, I'll take you to the Central Holy Spring to fetch water for brewing wine."
"Only after you have drunk the bitter wine of dusk and successfully established your foundation can you attempt to access the Yang chapter."
Ye Chen frowned; it seemed that seizing the Yang Chapter was more difficult than he had imagined.
After giving his instructions, the Holy Lord of Candlelight said no more and turned to leave, leaving Ye Chen alone in the Guest Dust Lodge.
The courtyard of Kechenlu is not large, and now only Ye Chen lives there.
He closed the courtyard gate, set up a concealment barrier, and then returned to his room, sat cross-legged, and silently regulated his breathing.
When night fell and all was quiet, Ye Chen felt very calm.
This Twilight Realm is a world of eternal twilight, where there is no true night. When the twilight is dim, it is "night," and when it is bright, it is day.
Ye Chen kept releasing his divine sense to explore the Twilight Domain. He discovered that some forbidden areas were particularly dangerous, shrouded in darkness. If he were to forcibly explore them, he might suffer injuries.
Just then, within the Reincarnation Graveyard, an inconspicuous tombstone suddenly trembled slightly, emitting a faint hum that resonated with a distant place.
Then, the tremors grew stronger and stronger, and even the entire Reincarnation Graveyard shook slightly.
"Ok?"
"what happened?"
Ye Chen sensed the turmoil in the Reincarnation Graveyard and frowned slightly. Under the divination of the heavens, his gaze pierced through the Guest Dust Pavilion and looked into the depths of the Twilight Domain, where he vaguely saw a desolate pit. The source of the resonance was there.
That place seems to be the ancestral meteorite crater that the Holy Lord of Candlelight mentioned!
The Holy Lord of Candlelight didn't specify the details of the ancestral crater, but Ye Chen himself, upon probing it with his divine sense, also saw a dangerous, dark forbidden area, so he didn't delve into it further.
He never expected that there would be a tombstone in the Reincarnation Cemetery that resonated with the ancestral meteorite crater.
"This is... the Ancestral Meteor Crater and the Reincarnation Graveyard are resonating?" The voice of the Illusion Moon Goddess rang in Ye Chen's mind, her tone filled with undisguised surprise, and even a hint of barely perceptible fear.
Ye Chen asked, "Huan Yue, who is buried in this tombstone? Why does it resonate with the Ancestral Meteorite Crater? Could it be that he is related to the Great Sun Clan?"
He couldn't see through the tombstone's secrets or its origins; he only knew it belonged to a new reincarnation power, not the Goddess of March.
The Goddess of Illusion remained silent for a long time, her voice tinged with panic, before slowly saying, "Master of the tomb, what is buried in this tombstone is actually... the remnant of the blazing sun, the... fourth moon."
"what?"
"The remnant of the scorching sun? The fourth moon? What does that mean?"
Ye Chen was shocked. Could it be that this new reincarnation powerhouse was related to the blazing sun?
The Moon Goddess's face was slightly pale as she said, "That is the fourth moon, beyond the third moon goddess. I can't say for sure; the secrets of heaven are too great."
"This is the Sacred Land of the Blazing Sun. If we reveal any heavenly secrets here, we might attract some terrifying beings."
Ye Chen was filled with doubt. What exactly was the "terrifying existence" that the Goddess of Illusion Moon spoke of?
And what is the origin of this fourth moon, the remnant of the blazing sun?
Unable to suppress his curiosity, he activated the power of celestial secrets to peer into the ancestral meteorite crater from afar.
Suddenly, a tremendous surge of pain, hatred, and resentment flooded into his soul.
"pain……"
"It hurts so much..."
"Myriad Transformations Golden Mother, why, why..."
The aura was extremely intense, like a wound that would never heal, constantly enduring extreme pain, mixed with groans and howls, making one's heart tremble.
"Ok?"
"This aura seems to be related to the blazing sun?"
Ye Chen focused his senses and vaguely perceived that this painful and hateful resentment seemed to be inextricably linked to the fall of the sun back then.
"Illusion Moon, what exactly is hidden in the Ancestral Meteor Crater?" Ye Chen pressed again.
But the Goddess of Illusion remained tight-lipped, refusing to utter another word no matter how Ye Chen pressed her for answers. She simply warned, "Tomb Master, do not peer into that place any further. It is too dangerous. If you continue, the beings inside will detect you."
Ye Chen felt a chill run down his spine. He realized that the spying he had just witnessed had affected his spirit, and he felt a sense of being corrupted by the hatred and pain he felt.
He immediately cut off the communication, calmed his mind, and stopped looking into the ancestral crater, but the doubts in his heart grew stronger.
Ancestral crater, the fourth moon, the remnants of the blazing sun...
These clues intertwined, giving him a vague feeling that a huge secret was hidden behind the Great Sun Remnant Clan.
Nothing more was said that night. The next morning, the Holy Lord of Candlelight arrived at the Guest Dust Lodge on time. Upon seeing him, Ye Chen didn't beat around the bush and asked directly, "Senior, you still haven't told me what exactly is hidden in that Ancestral Fall Crater?"
Upon hearing this, the Holy Lord of Candlelight's expression changed instantly, his eyes filled with astonishment as he stared at Ye Chen in disbelief: "You...you saw it?"
Seeing the Holy Lord of Candlelight's shocked expression, Ye Chen's curiosity grew even stronger. He said, "I only glimpsed a little and sensed an extremely terrifying, painful resentment, but I don't know what it is. Please enlighten me, senior."
Ye Chen could vaguely deduce that the existence of that ancestral crater must be related to the Yang chapter.
The Holy Lord of Candlelight remained silent for a moment, then slowly sighed, his expression becoming solemn:
"As expected of the Lord of Reincarnation, he saw the Splitting Wolf and didn't go mad. If it were an ordinary person, they would have gone insane and become a demon long ago."
Ye Chen was taken aback and said, "The Splitting Wolf?"
The Holy Lord of Candlelight nodded and said, "That's right, it is the Wolf of Splits, a wolf god, sealed in the Ancestral Meteor Crater."
"Back then, the Golden Mother of Myriad Transformations shattered the blazing sun, but the blazing sun was not completely destroyed. After it was shattered, the wounds on its body and the flowing blood separated into an incarnation, which is the Wolf of Splitting."
"This wolf god represents the unhealed wound of the blazing sun, the ultimate pain and hatred. It has no reason whatsoever, is extremely brutal, and is more terrifying than the chaotic demons. Its lifelong pursuit is slaughter and destruction."
"Back then, after the Split Wolf was born, it broke into the Twilight Domain and slaughtered indiscriminately. Many ancestors of my Great Sun Clan paid a heavy price to suppress it, with countless deaths and injuries. The place where it slaughtered is now the Ancestral Meteorite Crater."
"The Split Wolf was too terrifying, possessing the power to annihilate the entire Sun Holy Land. Our Great Sun Remnant Clan exhausted all our strength to find a coffin and seal it in the Ancestral Meteor Crater."
"Even so, the aura of the Split Wolf still seeps out from the seal, polluting the spiritual energy of the Twilight Domain, causing three dim sunsets to hang in the sky above my Great Sun Remnant Clan, unable to regain their former glory."
"What's even more terrifying is that newborns in the clan will be tainted by the brutal aura of the Split Wolves, and their temperament will become violent. Therefore, our Great Sun Remnant Clan can only deliberately suppress reproduction. Over time, the number of people in the clan will become increasingly small."
Ye Chen was shocked. He hadn't expected that such a terrifying being was sealed in the Ancestral Fall Crater.
Now that he heard the words of the Holy Lord of Candlelight, he had a clue, and the secrets of heaven before his eyes became clear. He seemed to really see a wolf god, covered in blood, with a ferocious and cruel face, and a wound on his body that would never heal.
He is the pain of the blazing sun, the most extreme suffering of the blazing sun, and the embodiment of the blazing sun's resentment.
Compared to him, ordinary chaotic demons seemed as harmless as little white rabbits.
"What kind of coffin is this? It's so powerful that it can seal away a terrifying being like the Split Wolf?"
Ye Chen was curious, but he didn't know what kind of coffin the Great Sun Clan had used to seal the Split Wolf.
At this moment, even as he peered at the figure of the Split Wolf, he felt an overwhelming sense of terror.
The Primordial Ancestor's strength back then was infinitely close to the End Realm, and the avatars that split off from his body were naturally extremely ferocious.
Ye Chen was a little curious about the origin of the coffin belonging to the Great Sun Clan, since such a powerful and terrifying being could actually be sealed away.
The Holy Lord of Candlelight shook his head: "We'll talk about this later. I'll tell you when the time comes."
"Now, I will take you to the Central Sacred Spring to fetch water for brewing wine, so that we can establish a solid foundation for Yanghua as soon as possible before we can talk about seizing the Yang Chapter."
Seeing that he was unwilling to say more, Ye Chen did not press further. He nodded and followed the Holy Lord of Candlelight out of the Guest Dust Lodge, heading towards the Central Holy Spring.
The deeper one ventures into the Twilight Domain, the more pervasive a mysterious aura becomes in the air—an aura of pain and resentment, originating from the Split Wolf!
This aura, like a bone-deep infection, gradually eroded Ye Chen's soul, stirring up the abyss within him.
The once dormant abyss now begins to stir faintly.
A brutal killing intent instantly rose in Ye Chen's mind. He became delirious and almost lost his mind, wanting to kill indiscriminately and vent his violence.
"Hey, Lord of Reincarnation, what are you doing...?"
When the Holy Lord of Candlelight saw Ye Chen suddenly with his eyes wide open, fangs protruding, and a faint aura of blood emanating from his body, revealing an extremely ferocious appearance, he was immediately taken aback.
Upon hearing the words of the Holy Lord of Candlelight, Ye Chen felt a chill run down his spine. He immediately activated the power of reincarnation and the Daoist essence of the blazing sun, desperately suppressing the murderous thoughts and the abyss's restlessness within him.
"Phew... I'm alright."
Ye Chen let out a soft breath.
The Holy Lord of Candlelight frowned and said, "You've been corrupted by the aura of the Splitting Wolf?"
"Logically speaking, with your Dao heart, you shouldn't be so easily corrupted."
"Is it the influence of the abyss?"
Ye Chen remained silent. Indeed, with the resilience of his Dao heart, even the aura of the Split Wolf would not so easily distort his spirit.
However, because of the existence of the abyss, even a small spark from the outside world can easily ignite it, causing Ye Chen to go berserk.
"I'm sorry..." Ye Chen lowered his head slightly, thinking that he must get the Twilight Bitter Wine as soon as possible in order to suppress the Abyss.
The Holy Lord of Candlelight didn't say much, and continued to lead Ye Chen forward, the two of them walking step by step towards the central holy spring.
Before long, the sacred spring with its amber-colored waters appeared before the two of them.
Ye Chen's gaze fell upon the sacred spring, where he saw faint, fragmented golden runes floating and swirling in the shimmering water, carrying a hint of the radiant Daoist charm.
A thought struck him, and he turned to look at the Holy Lord of Candlelight: "Senior, could the golden runes in this spring water be the characters of the Yang Chapter?"
The Holy Lord of Candlelight nodded and smiled, "Indeed, you have a keen eye; this is indeed the rune of the Yang chapter."
"The entire Holy Spring, in essence, flows from the Yang Chapter. The spring water contains pure essence and is the only ingredient of the Twilight Bitter Wine."
"But this wine has always tasted bitter ever since the Wolf of Split was sealed away."
At this point, he sighed helplessly.
"The dark aura of the Split Wolves has permeated every corner of Twilight Domain and has also polluted the Holy Spring. When brewing wine, we must pay extra attention to purification and distillation, and repeatedly purify it in order to remove the dark aura."
"But no matter how meticulous the process, the final brew will always have a faint bitter taste, which is caused by the resentment of the Split Wolf and cannot be completely eradicated."
"I see……"
Ye Chen understood; it turned out that the name "Twilight Bitter Wine" was actually related to the Wolf of Splitting.
His gaze swept over the area around the sacred spring, and he saw a number of brewing utensils on display, including earthenware jars and distillation furnaces.
The Holy Lord of Candlelight said, "I have dismissed all the guards and idle clansmen. At this moment, there are only the two of us around the Holy Spring. You can draw water and brew wine to your heart's content without worrying about being disturbed."
"Then thank you very much, senior." Ye Chen cupped his hands in thanks, then stepped forward, gestured with his hand, and slowly poured the holy spring water into the pottery jar.