"What time is it now?" Xuan Dahei asked faintly.
Being suppressed by the Xuantian Sect, he was conscious except for the first few times, and then he fell into a deep sleep.
The protective formation has been absorbing Xuan Dahei's vitality.
Especially when Xuantian Sect was attacked several times, those attacks fell directly on him.
The Xuanwu clan is best known for its superb defensive capabilities.
The shells of their prototypes are even more powerful than defensive artifacts, which is why Xuan Dahei is still alive.
Of course, this is also the reason why the big sects are spying on the mythical beast Xuanwu.
'It has been more than 17,000 years since that great war.'
"Only 17,000 years..." Xuan Dahei said with some emotion, "I thought more than 100,000 years had passed."
In addition to their defensive advantages, the Xuanwu clan also has a long lifespan.
Often, they wake up and find that nearly 10,000 years have passed, especially since they like to sleep. For example, when they need to heal an injury, they take a nap and the injury is healed when they wake up.
Xuan Dahai, Ao Qing and Bai Fengyu are beasts of the same age. He had never had a long sleep before.
He heard about the benefits of long sleep from the elders in his tribe.
Xuan Dahai had heard other companions sigh more than once that the Xuanwu clan was truly blessed and that there was nothing that could not be solved with a good night's sleep.
However, this time, Xuan Dahai felt that these ten thousand years were too hard to endure, as if he had been lying in bed for his entire life.
'What's wrong with you?'
Hearing the weakness in his old friend's voice, Ao Qing suppressed his anger towards humans.
"I don't know... I woke up and found myself being used as a guardian stone."
Unlike Ao Qing and Bai Fengyu who escaped the disaster because they went out on their honeymoon, Xuan Dahei experienced the catastrophe personally.
In the end, he escaped the disaster under the protection of his tribe members, carrying the hopes of his entire tribe.
After escaping, Xuan Dahei found a place to rest and heal his wounds.
However, when he woke up, he found himself suppressed in one place, his vitality and divine power were being continuously drained, and the Xuanwu Tower had disappeared.
After a brief investigation, the divine consciousness discovered that the Xuanwu Tower had also been occupied by humans and had been forcibly broken open.
Except for the top two layers which have not yet collapsed, the other layers have all been opened by humans. The only remaining treasures of the Xuanwu clan are now occupied by human cultivators.
Thinking that the only remaining bloodline of the Xuanwu clan was still in the tower, Xuan Dahai naturally couldn't lie down.
However, the ending was not amicable.
Xuan Dahei was suppressed again, and several more seals were placed on his body.
And then, there was nothing else. His vitality and divine power were constantly drained, and the time Xuan Dahai could wake up became shorter again.
He didn't know when he was found by the human cultivators, and when they dug him out and used him as a sect-suppressing stone to suppress the Xuantian Sect.
Now that he was awakened by his old friend, Xuan Dahai was somewhat happy.
"Let's not talk about this anymore. Nearly 20,000 years have passed. What is the world like now?" Xuan Dahei asked curiously.
He woke up very rarely and had no idea what the world was like today.
Hearing the question from his old friend, Ao Qing thought about it and told him everything, including the war between the two tribes that would begin soon.
Xuan Dahai was very patient. After listening to the couple's words and comments, a long time passed.
After listening to the story, Xuan Dahei did not express any opinion. It was difficult for a rise and fall to continue for a long time, and he guessed the ending halfway through the story.
However, thinking of the upcoming war, Xuan Dahei felt that he had found an opportunity to leave.
'Before the big war comes, I want to try to break the seal.'
Being suppressed here as a pillar of support, Xuan Dahei's defense ability has turned into passive mode.
In other words, as long as he is still there, the Xuantian Sect will not suffer any damage in the battle between humans and demons.
If the demon clan chooses to perish together with the Xuantian Sect, Xuan Dahei will be the first to have his vitality drained away and die.
Not wanting to die, Xuan Dahei told Ao Qing and his wife about his plan.
"But... now I am only left with my soul, and Ao Qing's dragon pill is damaged. We have to go to the God-killing Ruins before the battle."
Xuan Dahai had no idea that his two old friends were injured, and one of them even lost his physical body. He was stunned after hearing this.
How...how is this worse than his?
"Then you should solve the problem of the dragon pill first," Xuan Dahei said.
If Ao Qing had not returned after the war, he should have been able to hold on.
'By the way, go get the Xuanwu Tower before leaving.'
"Xuanwu Tower?" Ao Qing frowned, "Why is it in Xuantian Sect?"
The Xuanwu Tower is as important as the Dragon Soul Hall of the Dragon Clan.
"The remaining bloodline of the Xuanwu clan is on the top floor of the Xuanwu Tower." Xuan Dahei did not answer Ao Qing's question just now, but he knew it without saying it.
'Go to the top floor and wake up the tower spirit. It will know what to do next.'
Afterwards, Xuan Dahei told Ao Qing how to quickly reach the top of the tower.
Finally, Xuan Dahei, who was beginning to feel tired, said goodbye to them, "I'll leave the Xuanwu tribe's cubs in your care. I hope that when I wake up next time, I'll have gotten rid of this damn seal..."
As he spoke, Xuan Dahei's voice gradually lowered, "Also... the true location of the God Killing Ruins is in the Great Wasteland..."
As time goes by, the vast wilderness of ten thousand years ago may have changed. It may have become a mountain or a deep sea, or perhaps nothing has changed.
In short, you can always find it if you know the location.
Not hearing the old friend's voice again, Bai Fengyu looked at Ao Qing who was standing aside with a grim expression.
"Let's go. We need to take back the Xuanwu Tower and find out what happened between the White Tiger Tribe's fortune and that human."
"Um."
Although cracks appeared in Ao Qing's dragon pill, there would be no problem as long as he did not suddenly mobilize a large amount of divine power, like when he fought against the "consciousness" of the Heavenly Dao before.
After making some simple disguises, Ao Qing walked into the gate of Xuantian Sect openly.
Bai Fengyu did not return to the Longze Ring, but followed Ao Qing in with his soul.
The two were not in a hurry to go to the Xuanwu Tower. Their primary task now was to find the human Zhang Bufan and figure out what happened to the White Tiger Clan's fate.
However, Ao Qing and the system guessed that Zhang Bufan was very likely to have the only remaining bloodline of the White Tiger Clan.
"That consciousness is really powerful. After failing to target the dragon and phoenix tribes, it is now targeting the white tiger tribe. Is it trying to fleece the four sacred beasts?" The system floated beside the host, complaining.
The system didn't care since it didn't hear any response from the host and his partner.
"After we have taken over the White Tiger Clan, the next one will definitely be the Black Tortoise Clan. The Black Tortoise Tower is right in the Xuantian Sect, so whoever is closest to the water gets the moon first!"
"The Xuanwu Tower is now in the hands of the Xuantian Sect. How can Zhang Bufan get it?" Bai Fengyu was a little curious after hearing what the system said.
"This is not a big deal for the Son of Fortune..." The system was flattered that the host's partner spoke to it.
Seeing that he didn't quite understand the concept of the Son of Fortune, the system diligently gave him many examples.
After listening to the system's popular science, Bai Fengyu pondered for a moment, "If that's the case... Isn't Zhang Bufan a puppet of the Heavenly Dao's 'consciousness'?"
“You could say that.”
Listening quietly to the conversation between the system and his partner, Ao Qing suddenly stopped and stared at the girl not far away.
"What's wrong?" Bai Fengyu saw that he stopped where he was and didn't catch up, so he flew back.
"The child that the half-demon is carrying has regressed to her ancestral form. However, if her spiritual power cannot be replenished, it will probably be sucked dry by the child in her belly."
All divine beast cubs are laid from eggs, and the eggshell is slowly formed by constantly absorbing the mother's spiritual energy.
It is difficult for a divine beast to give birth to offspring, let alone a half-demon, whose spiritual power is simply not enough to form an eggshell.
If things go wrong, there might even be two deaths.
"Half-demon?" Bai Fengyu looked in the direction of Ao Qing's gaze. "Right now, the relationship between humans and demons is tense. How dare she, a half-demon, enter Xuantian Sect?"
"Huh? Is the cub in her belly of the White Tiger clan?" Bai Fengyu asked in surprise, as if he had seen something.
"Yes," Ao Qing nodded.
The problem of the White Tiger Clan might lie with her, or more precisely, with the cub in her belly.
"Could it be that Zhang Bufan fell in love with her and snatched her back?" The system guessed, and then asked itself, "If you think about it carefully, this is not impossible."
A year or two passed, and in addition to the three women around Zhang Bufan before, there were several more women in the harem these days.
With beauty, purity and eccentricity already there, it wouldn't be strange to have one more young woman.
Ao Qing's gaze was not much concealed, but he stared at her openly for a long time.
The woman in blue who was being stared at naturally felt the gaze that could not be ignored. She subconsciously looked over, and her face changed drastically the next second.
As a half-demon, the woman in blue can naturally tell the difference between humans and demons.
The strange man staring at her was certainly not a human being. Not only that, the woman in blue also felt danger from him.
The monster's instinct was at work, warning her to stay away from that man.
However, when her eyes met that cold gaze, the woman in blue froze in place, unable to move.
Seeing the man walking towards her, the woman in blue turned pale and beads of sweat the size of beans fell from her forehead.
"Senior...Senior, is there anything I can help you with?" the woman in blue said tremblingly.
"What are you doing in Xuantian Sect as a half-demon? Aren't you afraid of being discovered?"
Although she is half-demon, she is also half a white tiger, and there is a baby in her belly. Ao Qing's attitude towards her is quite friendly.
Of course, in his opinion.
That was not the case for the woman in blue.
"I...my partner was turned into a contracted beast by humans, and I..." The woman in blue was so frightened by the pressure of the divine beast emanating from Ao Qing that she stuttered when she spoke.
"That human is called Zhang Bufan?"
"Yes! Senior, do you know that human?!" The woman in blue was more surprised than afraid at this moment.
After hearing the explanation from the half-demon, Ao Qing and Bai Fengyu roughly understood what happened.
The woman in blue and her Taoist partner are both descendants of the mythical beast white tiger. Her Taoist partner showed signs of reversion after adulthood, but she is still a half-demon.
In order to ensure the safe birth of the baby in her belly and the safety of both mother and child, she and her husband went to look for spiritual plants and treasures to make preparations.
Unexpectedly, the woman in blue finally waited for the news that the Taoist couple was seriously injured by a human and became his contracted beast.
She alone could not support the baby to be born safely, and she did not want to give up her Taoist partner, so the woman in blue went all the way to Xuantian Sect.
However, not long after entering Xuantian Sect, he met a mysterious elder from the demon clan.
After hearing what the woman in blue said, the system was at a loss for words. "If we hadn't happened to catch up, I'm afraid she and the baby in her belly would have been fleeced as well."