Xu Ruohai cried for a long time before he finally stopped. But after he stopped, he seemed to have lost his soul. His eyes were filled with despair, and he looked like he had no will to live. He just lay there blankly, motionless.
Looking at him like this, Fang Xiu seriously suspected that if it weren't for the Taotie Divine Kingdom causing him to lose all his power, Xu Ruohai would probably have already fallen into demonic possession.
"Xu Ruohai, why are you in the Taotie Divine Kingdom?"
Xu Ruohai remained motionless, like a dead body.
"Answer my question, and I'll consider killing you."
Upon hearing this, Xu Ruohai's eyes finally lit up.
With a hoarse voice, he began to tell his story.
After a short while, Fang Xiu learned the whole story. Strictly speaking, this matter was actually related to him.
It turns out that ever since Xu Ruohai's avatar died in the Moon God Ruins, he has been living in constant fear, afraid that the true god would come to his door to take revenge. Changing places eight times a year was not enough, and he even went so far as to weaken his own power and create several avatars.
He allowed his avatar to control another avatar, which carefully hid outside, while his true body remained underground all day, never daring to show its face.
Even so, he still felt unsafe. After all, the enemy was a true god, and the other party would definitely recover his strength sooner or later. Once he recovered his strength, where in the entire Kyushu would he still have a place to stay?
Wouldn't it be easy for the true god to find himself in Kyushu?
With this in mind, as time went by, Xu Ruohai grew increasingly afraid, fearing that one day Fang Xiu would regain his strength and come looking for him.
So he came up with a plan. Since he could no longer stay in the Nine Provinces, he might as well go to the Land Forsaken by the Gods. No matter how powerful the immortals and gods were, it would be difficult for their tentacles to reach the Land Forsaken by the Gods. So he really went to the other side.
Xu Ruohai believed that he was good at preserving his life and had the strength of a demigod. As long as he did not encounter a demon god in the Other Shore, he would not be in great danger. If he could not defeat some powerful sovereign-level demons, he could at least run away.
Then, after he went to the other side, he actually encountered demons, not just one, but a whole group of them.
It was quite a coincidence that the day Xu Ruohai went to the other shore was the day Yun Tianshen rebelled and the day the demon god and the immortal god fought a great battle.
After defeating a group of demons, on their way home, they were spotted by Xu Ruohai.
If we hadn't been so far apart at the time, the grass on his grave would already be a meter high.
The two sides were far apart, but the demon god was so majestic that it was like seeing Mount Tai from a great distance.
Xu Ruohai was naturally timid. When he saw the demons traveling, he was so frightened that he turned and ran away. He didn't dare to have any conflict with the demons.
Normally, those demons wouldn't bother with an ant that's far away from them, but there are always exceptions.
If a demon god is in a bad mood, even if you glance at him from billions of miles away, it will be your fault.
Unfortunately, Yun Tianshen was in a bad mood that day because of Fang Xiu, he lost Yunzhou.
Therefore, when he returned to the other shore, he happened to find an ant and wanted to crush it at will.
A bolt of blood-red lightning struck out, traversing billions of miles of space, and slashed towards Xu Ruohai.
Xu Ruohai used all his survival techniques, losing many of his external avatars in the process, before barely managing to survive, though he was also severely injured.
Severely injured, he only wanted to find a safe place to hide, so he ran towards the shallower part of the other side.
In the shallowest part of the ocean, there are only a large number of snakes and insects, which naturally pose no threat to Xu Ruohai. However, what he never expected was that among all the demon gods, there was only one special existence that preferred to stay in the shallow part of the other shore. That was Taotie!
Because there are many strange snakes and insects in shallow areas, the Taotie can eat to its heart's content without stopping for a moment, without having to travel around looking for food.
And then... that was it. A wounded demigod encountering a gluttonous beast like Taotie—you can imagine there was only one outcome.
And so, the unfortunate Xu Ruohai was swallowed into the Taotie Divine Kingdom. He was overjoyed to find that he was not dead, but little did he know that even more misfortune was yet to come.
"After you came to the Taotie Divine Kingdom, you've been staying in the Man Niu Dong Village ever since?" Fang Xiu asked.
Xu Ruohai stared blankly at the ceiling of the dungeon and said, "At that time, I realized that my power was constantly flowing away, so I didn't dare to go to any big villages for fear of being discovered. So I specially chose a small village, which is Man Niu Dong Village."
Before my strength was exhausted, I casually used some tricks to make the people of Manniu Dong Village revere me like a god. Later, I learned that the cultivation realm in the wilderness was completely different from that in the Nine Provinces. Here, only physical strength is cultivated. Each transformation of the physical body is called sublimation. There can be four transformations in total. Legend has it that after four transformations, there is the ultimate sublimation. Those who achieve the ultimate sublimation have the possibility of breaking through the void and ascending to the immortal realm.
Therefore, I lied and claimed to be an immortal descended from the celestial realm, intending to take over the Man Niu Dong Village for my own use, so that I would have something to rely on after my power dissipated.
But I never imagined that the wilderness would be such a barbaric place, where cannibalism has always been practiced. I fooled them for almost half a year, but seeing that I couldn't produce any elixirs or perform any miracles for a long time, they became suspicious. After many tests, they finally decided to attack me, wanting to eat the flesh of immortals to gain immortality.
At this point, Xu Ruohai was about to cry again, clearly having been reminded of some painful memories.
"Eating people?" Fang Xiu frowned slightly. He had thought these people wanted to eat the flesh of immortals, but he did not expect that eating people was a custom.
"That's right, they do eat people. I've found these people to be very strange. They possess two characteristics in their bodies: one is the devouring power of the Taotie, and the other is a powerful life force. Their physique far surpasses that of the people of the Nine Provinces. Even among mortals, once these people reach adulthood, their physical strength alone is comparable to that of some low-level cultivators."
It is precisely because of these two characteristics that the custom of cannibalism arose, because by eating other people, they could absorb their life force, thereby strengthening themselves and even prolonging their lifespan!
A glint of light flashed in Fang Xiu's eyes. He understood why these people would eat people even when they weren't lacking in food. It turned out they were eating people to become stronger and achieve immortality.
If eating people could grant immortality, then many people would probably choose to achieve that.
“During this time, they ate a lot of my flesh, and some of them were even elevated as a result. Although I lost all my power and my demigod body degenerated into a mortal body, I am still equivalent to a three-time ascendant. My flesh and blood contain a lot of life essence, which is of great value to them.”
"Then why did these women swaddle you as an infant?" Fang Xiu asked calmly.
Upon hearing this, Xu Ruohai felt as if a thorn had pierced his heart, and tears streamed down his face.
"It's all my fault for being so loose-lipped. Those people wanted me to teach them immortal techniques, but in this Gluttonous Divine Kingdom, even demigods can't keep their own power. What's the use of learning immortal techniques? But it wouldn't be right for me not to teach them, so I taught them cultivation methods. After fooling them for a while, they found that they couldn't learn anything and came to ask me. I certainly couldn't say that my power had been devoured, or I would have exposed myself."
So I lied and said that cultivation requires immortal roots, and since you don't possess them, you can't cultivate. They remembered that, and after they captured me, they made all the women in the village... one by one... hoping to give birth to children with immortal roots.
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