"Hehe..." Tooth Decay suddenly looked at Gu Yu, "Do you know what's in the depths?"
"Hmm?" I looked in the direction the cavity was pointing, but all I could see was a hazy gray area.
“Kun and Hong are fast asleep inside, and I’m here to keep the divine and demonic power here from dissipating and to keep them asleep,” said Tooth Decay.
"You mean Kun and Hong are inside?" Gu Yu's eyes widened immediately upon hearing the explanation from the tooth decayer.
“That’s right.” Tooth Decay nodded. “Now you know how important I am! If I hadn’t been here all this time, they would probably have woken up long ago. If they had seen you, they would probably have torn you to pieces for research.”
"Huh?" Gu Yu was taken aback.
"Do you think they wouldn't be interested in a god or demon who can cultivate? They're busy researching the methods of cultivation for gods and demons, do you think they wouldn't do research too? They're also looking for methods, they just haven't found them yet," said Tooth Decay.
"How did Gan put them both into a deep sleep?" Gu Yu was utterly shocked. He wanted to know just how powerful Gan was. As the first demigod in the world, he captured Huang and provided him with research material. Hmm! It's possible that his own divine and demonic bloodline originated from Huang. And then he trapped Kun and Hong here. You can imagine just how powerful he is!
“I don’t know for sure, but the reason they can remain in a deep sleep is because this place is a mutually restraining restriction. Kun is at one end, and Hong is at the other. They restrain and influence each other, and my existence is to keep this restriction in balance. Look at the divine and demonic power around us.” Tooth decay’s gaze swept over the divine and demonic power around us. “Some of this divine and demonic power was left behind by Kun, but there isn’t this much. Moreover, if it were consumed according to the normal restriction, it would have been exhausted long ago. But look at the divine and demonic power here, it’s endless. This is because most of this divine and demonic power belongs to Kun and Hong. They restrain each other. Hong’s divine and demonic power restrains Kun, and Kun restrains Hong, like a vicious cycle. And I’m here to maintain this vicious cycle and prevent it from going out of control.”
"I see." Gu Yu looked enlightened. No wonder the divine and demonic power here was so abundant; there were two gods and demons inside! They were constantly releasing their divine and demonic power within the barrier to restrain each other—how formidable! He managed to injure Kun and put him inside, and now he'd even managed to drag Hong inside as well. If Hong hadn't died, wouldn't he be in even greater danger? If he could handle the powerful Kun and Hong like this, what chance did he have, being just a weak experimental subject created by the other side?
"Hehe..." Tooth Decay chuckled, "Kid, now you're pretty much in agreement with me saying that Gan is a cunning old fox, aren't you?"
"Mm!" Gu Yu nodded.
"Since two of the four demigods are trapped here, and Huang might be me, then Gan is even less likely to die. There is nothing in this world that can pose a threat to him anymore." Gu Yu suddenly thought of something and said.
"Yes! That's why I suspect he's not dead." Tooth Decay nodded, agreeing wholeheartedly with Gu Yu's assessment. Aside from himself, there's practically nothing in the world that could kill him! Unless he kills himself, or finds a cultivation method and starts cultivating, perhaps even awakening his divine and demonic power again, layer by layer, just like you!"
"Um?"
"Hehe..." Tooth Decay chuckled again when he saw Gu Yu's stunned expression. "Of course, the most likely explanation is that he's already dead. Maybe something went wrong while he was researching the Source Heart! Look, don't you have a fragment of the Source Heart in your body?"
"The fragments of the Source Heart, do you know why the Source Heart shattered?" Gu Yu asked.
“This…” Tooth decay paused for a moment, “I don’t know.”
"Does the Source Heart really hold the secret to breaking through to the thirteenth cone?" Gu Yu continued to ask the cavitary tooth. The cavitary tooth didn't know how it broke, but surely it knew something!
"I don't know! Kun said so, but Gan never said so, so I don't know the specifics. The only thing I'm sure of is that there's a seal on the Source Heart that even Gan can't break. He said it requires the blood of himself, Kun, Hong, and Huang to break it. As for the secret to breaking it, I don't know." Tooth Decay said, shrugging.
"It takes the blood of Gan, Kun, Hong, and Huang together to unravel this, so doesn't that mean Gan has already been unraveled?" Gu Yu's expression suddenly froze.
“Hmm! If that seal were still there, the Source Heart would never have been broken. Now that it’s broken, it proves that the seal was indeed broken by Gan,” said Tooth Decay.
The Azure Dragon God Emperor said that the Source Heart was most likely shattered because of the great battle between Gan and Kun! It seems that this statement is not correct. Rather, it was shattered after Gan broke the seal. As for how it shattered, we would have to ask Gan.
"Damn it, are you dead or not?" Gu Yu muttered, frowning.
"Hehe..." Seeing Gu Yu frowning and muttering, Tooth Decay chuckled, "Aren't you scared? Scared that old bastard is alive and controlling you?"
"Yes!" Gu Yu nodded honestly.
“That old fox is the most cunning,” Tooth Decay said. “I could have been living a carefree life, even getting married! But he gave me a mission, making me stay here and not let me leave.”
"Huh!" Gu Yu was taken aback when he saw the cavity. "You still want to get married? And you can't leave here?"
"Hmm!" Tooth Decay nodded. "Of course, who doesn't want to get married! Don't you?"
“This…” Gu Yu didn’t answer the question about the cavity. Indeed, he did want to get married. If you asked a three-year-old, he would answer that he would.
“Yes! I can’t leave here. Although this restriction has two poles, I’m also trapped in it, so it serves to balance things out,” Tooth Decay said.
"So, how strong is your cultivation level now?" Gu Yu looked at the tooth decayer! Just one tooth! It shouldn't be very strong.
"Hehe..." Tooth Decay said mysteriously after hearing Gu Yu's words, "Guess?"
"Is it a God-King or a Heavenly King?" Gu Yu recalled that when this guy saved him before, he dispelled the resentment of those dragons with a single strike. His strength was definitely greater than that of a true god.
Upon hearing Gu Yu's words, Tooth Decay shook his head.
"The Great Emperor?" Gu Yu asked in surprise.
The cavity shook its head again.
"You're not going to tell me you're at the Ancestral Realm, are you?" Gu Yu was no longer calm. This decayed tooth was at the Ancestral Realm? This...
Others strive for countless years to break through to the Ancestral Realm but cannot achieve it, yet a broken tooth in front of you is actually at the Ancestral Realm. Isn't that infuriating?
"I am indeed at the Ancestral Realm here, although I am only at the threshold of the Ancestral Realm. But I am much stronger than those so-called Twelve Ancestors, because I am a true Ancestral Realm cultivator, while they stole it." When he mentioned the Twelve Ancestors, his expression was somewhat disdainful, as if he looked down on them.
"A stolen Ancestral Realm?" Gu Yu frowned. "An Ancestral Realm can be stolen?"
"Yes!" Tooth decay nodded.
"How do you steal it?" Gu Yu asked with interest. If he knew how it was stolen, he would steal one too, and then he, Gu Yu, would be at the Ancestral Realm.
"I don't know! They just said they stole it, took something that didn't belong to them, and that they'd have to return it sooner or later," Tooth Decay explained.
"What things that don't belong to them could allow them to reach the Ancestral Realm?" Gu Yu frowned.
"I don't know what it is either." Tooth Decay waved his hand. "Although Gan is a cunning old fox, he usually doesn't lie to me."
"How do you know he can't?" Gu Yu asked, looking at the cavity. "If he couldn't, why would you be stuck here, unable to leave?"
"Sigh! This was my own choice," said Tooth Decay. "He just didn't tell me it would take this long!"
"Alright!" Hearing what the tooth decay said, Gu Yu didn't continue asking those questions, but instead started asking about the Source Heart, "What exactly is the Source Heart, and where does it come from?"
“I know that.” Upon hearing Gu Yu’s question, Tooth Decay said, “Everything in this world was created by a complete god and demon, who is called the Creator God and Demon, which is the Thirteen Supreme Powerhouse you mentioned.”
"Creation gods and demons? Complete gods and demons?" Gu Yu frowned.
“Hmm!” Tooth Decay nodded. “After creating the world, the Creator God died due to exhaustion of power, and his heart is the Source Heart.”
"Is the Source Heart the heart of the creator god and demon?"
“Yes! That’s why it’s said that if you obtain the Source Heart, you can know the secret to becoming one of the Thirteen Cones,” said Tooth Decay.
“Then Gan…” Gu Yu frowned again. Gan had broken the seal and should already know the secret, but why was Yuan Xin broken? Who really knows the truth about all these mysteries? He thought that coming here would allow him to know everything, but he was even more confused. It was all because of this cavity, and importantly, he knew nothing about it.
“I don’t know if it can become one of the Thirteen Cones, but since it’s the heart of the Creator God and Demon, the power it contains is probably greater than that of four demigods and demons,” Tooth Decay said again. “You possess a fragment of the Source Heart, haven’t you experienced that?”
"Experience?" Gu Yu was stunned for a moment. "I just have a data template that can provide me with a three-fold increase, as well as an unknown amount of space, contribution points, a three-fold increase, and dark source soldiers. I can also exchange contribution points for source energy..." Gu Yu explained.
"Oh?" Tooth Decay was taken aback. "What the hell are you talking about?"
"Anyway, that's what I said. Is this the power of the Source Heart Fragment?" Gu Yu asked, looking at the somewhat dazed cavity.
"I don't know!" Tooth decay shook his head. "You stand still, let me feel this fragment of the source heart."
“Okay.” Gu Yu nodded, then stood there, waiting for the tooth decay to sense the fragments of the Source Heart.
"Damn it..." About three minutes later, Tooth Decay suddenly swore.
"What's wrong? What did you feel?" Gu Yu asked, looking at the cavity.
"Let me see that Origin Soldier," Tooth Decay said to Gu Yu.
"Okay." Gu Yu thought for a moment, and a pitch-black Origin Weapon appeared in front of the tooth decayer.
"Damn it!" Tooth decayed tooth swore again.
"What happened?" Gu Yu asked, looking at the cavity.
“This is the ancestral artifact of dryness,” said Tooth Decay.
"An ancestral artifact?" Gu Yu was taken aback.
"That's right. Back then, Gan destroyed many invaluable materials while doing research because other races of creatures couldn't withstand the power of gods and demons. So Gan wanted to create several bodies to withstand the power of gods and demons," said Tooth Decay. "The ferocity of the power of gods and demons only targets living beings. As you've seen, inanimate objects like weapons are also slowly eroded by the power of gods and demons, but the damage is negligible. After countless experiments, Gan failed, but by a twist of fate, he created this weapon, which seems to be called the Ten Sons Ancestral Stone. It can be divided into ten soldiers. Back then, in Gan's hands, the ten soldiers transformed from the Ten Sons Ancestral Stone were all peak Great Emperors."
"Peak Great Emperors?" Gu Yu was stunned. Ten peak Great Emperors? What did that mean? The Heavenly Emperor was a peak Great Emperor, and the Azure Dragon God Emperor was also a peak Great Emperor. How many peak Great Emperors were there in the entire world? Probably no more than a handful.
"But why is he so weak in my hands?" Looking at the source soldier in front of me, this guy is only a 7.5 dragon in terms of combat power, not even reaching the level of a four-horse!
"That's easy! Because you're too weak," Tooth Decay said, glancing at Gu Yu.
"But why exchange it for contribution points?" Gu Yu asked.
“I just felt this thing very clearly. Someone tampered with the Source Heart Fragment and the Ten Ancestral Stones, and that’s how it became the system you mentioned. As for how the contribution points are calculated, I don’t know either. It’s a mess. I even suspect that the person who tampered with it might not be able to count. But he probably wanted you to contribute, so he created this thing.” Tooth Decay explained.
"Hmm? Is it possible that it's just for show? And where did that Origin Qi come from?" Gu Yu asked. Every time he used the Blade Nourishing Technique, he exchanged a lot of Origin Qi with contribution points. It was amazing that this Origin Qi could suddenly appear out of thin air.
"Don't you have a space?" Tooth Decay looked at Gu Yu. "That space isn't infinitely large. After all, no space is infinitely large; even the world has boundaries. But this space is indeed very large, and the Origin Qi you exchanged likely came from this space. I didn't do it myself, so I don't know the specifics. As for whether it might have been Gan who did it, I don't think so. I know Gan too well! If he had tampered with it, he definitely wouldn't have let me see through it, and there would be no need for such trouble. What contribution points? That's worthless!"
"Huh!" Gu Yu was taken aback again upon hearing about the tooth decay. "Then who else could have done it?"
"Hehe..." Tooth Decay chuckled, "It could be that guy."
"That guy?" Gu Yu was speechless. This guy either didn't know about the cavity, or if he did, he wouldn't just say it directly. It was infuriating.
"You were the only successful test subject, but there were two others who didn't succeed but weren't ruined either. One was me, and the other was Number Two, whom I call Waste Two," Tooth Decay explained.
"Two useless people?" Gu Yu frowned.
"If it didn't work and wasn't broken, isn't it just a piece of junk?" said Tooth Decay.
"Then you're a complete waste?" Gu Yu asked, looking at the cavities.
"What did you say?" Upon hearing Gu Yu's words, Tooth Decay was immediately angered, glaring at Gu Yu with both eyes.
"Didn't you say all of that yourself?" Gu Yu, quick-witted, hurriedly explained, "He was the second test subject, he failed, he's a complete failure, so you..."
"Hiss..." Hearing Gu Yu's words, Tooth Decay suddenly gasped, "How come I didn't think of that! That makes sense! No wonder he wasn't angry at all when I called him a good-for-nothing..."
"Let's get down to business," Gu Yu immediately reminded him upon hearing the tooth decay's mutterings.
"Cough cough..." Tooth decay coughed a few times, "Don't mind the so-called 'second waste' I mentioned. He's just the second test subject. In fact, he's a human, just like a human. He's neither a Celestial Race nor a Nether Race, just like his current identity."
"In all the experiments I conducted, whether it was the Celestials, Titans, Dragons, or countless other physically powerful races, they all eventually exploded and died. But in the end, there was one ordinary human who didn't explode. As you know, ordinary humans have the weakest bodies, which is why I never chose ordinary humans for my experiments. I only tried it after I had exhausted all the other races. And then, well! He withstood it," said Tooth Decay.
"What's his name?" Gu Yu asked.
"I don't know." Tooth decay shook his head. "That guy is very stupid. I've studied him for a long time. Although he didn't explode, he also couldn't bear or control the power of gods and demons. However, he can decompose the power of gods and demons and separate it into black and white. You call it divine source power and demonic source power."
"Oh!" Gu Yu nodded.
“This guy is a true Ancestral Realm expert. Everyone else’s is stolen, but he achieved Ancestral Realm on his own by relying on Gan’s methods and the black and white divine source power and demonic source power,” said Tooth Decay. “He calls Gan his teacher, and Gan did not refuse.”
"Decompose the power of gods and demons? Isn't that a method only gods and demons can use?" Gu Yu asked, stunned.
"Yeah, so I'm curious too. I asked Gan, but he didn't tell me. As for that guy, he won't say either." Tooth decay said indignantly, "But I've also studied the reasons. Although the bodies of ordinary humans are the weakest, their structure is the most perfect in the world. Haven't you noticed that although all races claim that humans are weak and vulnerable, and hold a disdainful attitude, when their cultivation reaches a high level, they all transform into human form? In fact, even if they don't transform into human form, they will become more and more like humans."
"It seems so." Upon hearing the words of the tooth decayer, Gu Yu recalled the races he had encountered in his memory. Indeed, it was true. Take the Minotaur race for example; their royal family was quite close to humanoid.
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