Liu Yan paused for a moment, then sighed and said, "Well, this is too complicated to explain to you in a short time."
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"It's okay, I can listen slowly."
He Xie gazed into Liu Yan's eyes, silently waiting for her to speak.
Seeing that she was still preparing, he said to Su Jiu'er, who was standing to the side, "Go and make Aunt Liu a cup of flower tea."
Su Jiu'er hummed in agreement and quickly brewed a steaming cup of flower tea, handing it to Liu Yan.
Liu Yan took the teacup, sipped the flower tea to moisten her throat, and quickly began to tell her story.
It begins by telling the stories of the people in the orphanage.
The younger sister, Song Yuxin, is actually the daughter of the human emperor from a thousand years ago.
When she was fifteen, the Great General of the Human Emperor's Palace, who was also the owner of the wisp of divine soul that just emerged from the corpse of that young master, colluded with the various beast kings of the prehistoric alien races to destroy the Human Emperor's Palace.
Princess Song Yuxin, with the help of Emperor Shen Shou's mount, was sent to the Fairy Palace to seek assistance.
At that time, Liu Yan, as the palace master, was powerless to fight against the many beast kings among the alien races of the prehistoric world, and therefore could not go to support the Human Emperor's Palace. In the end, she could only do her best to keep Song Yuxin in the palace to protect her.
The second younger sister, Gu Xinyao, was a direct descendant of the Wu Clan.
After destroying the Human Emperor's Palace, the alien races of the prehistoric world quickly turned their attention to the Witch Clan.
The Witch Clan is very strong, even comparable to the Human Emperor's Palace.
But in the end, they were outnumbered and were destroyed by the combined forces of the various beast kings of the prehistoric alien races.
During this time, the Taotie clan, which had a marriage alliance with the Wumen, went to provide support, but they were tragically killed by the combined forces of the various beast kings. The entire Taotie clan was wiped out, leaving only the young human-Taotie hybrid Li Muke as the sole survivor.
With Shen Shou's help, Gu Xinyao and Li Muke were also sent to Liu Yan for protection.
However, when the nest is overturned, how can any egg remain intact?
With the destruction of the Human Emperor's Palace and the Witch Clan, the Beast Kings quickly turned their attention to the Fairy Palace.
Ultimately, the Fairy Palace was destroyed.
As the palace master, Liu Yan abandoned her cultivation and sealed herself, Song Yuxin, Gu Xinyao, and Li Muke in extremely cold ice crystals, concealing her aura and successfully escaping a calamity.
More than a thousand years later, about twenty years ago, Liu Yan finally recovered from the extreme cold ice crystals.
At that time, the human race had not yet perished and was still fighting against the ancient alien races.
Because of years of war, the human race at that time was filled with widows and orphans whose families had been destroyed.
In order to maintain social stability, the authorities encourage people to adopt orphans.
A certain subsidy will be given for each adoption.
An individual can adopt a maximum of two children.
If an orphanage has a business license, the adoption limit can be increased to ten.
At that time, Liu Yan, who had lost all her cultivation, opened an orphanage in order to adapt to society and raise Song Yuxin, Gu Xinyao, and Li Muke.
Because the establishment of an orphanage requires the adoption of at least two orphans, she adopted Zhao Keying and He Xie one after another.
Ten years later, Song Yuxin, Gu Xinyao, and Li Muke, who were frozen inside the extreme cold ice crystals, were simultaneously broken free.
Liu Yan sensed it and took the three of them back to the orphanage.
And so, a family of six was formed.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Keying said incredulously, "So, Aunt Liu, you and Yuxin are actually ancient people who have lived for thousands of years?"
Liu Yan shook her head: "Strictly speaking, that's not the right way to think about it."
Zhao Keying: "How so?"
Liu Yan explained, "Because living beings lose all their life characteristics during the freezing period, the thousands of years that are frozen are like time standing still for them. They are the same age they were when they were frozen and the same age they are when they are unfrozen."
Zhao Keying asked again, "Aunt Liu, there's something I don't understand. We've been living together for so long, how come I can't tell at all that you're from a thousand years ago?"
"It's good that you and Yuxin know how to hide it, but Xinyao and Xiaomu Ke are so young, they should have shown something was wrong long ago."
Liu Yan explained again, "I don't know if it's because they were frozen for too long, but when the three sisters broke out of the ice, they had all lost their memories. Only Yu Xin still has a few fragmented memories left."
"I see."
Zhao Keying nodded, feeling even more incredulous.
Now it was He Xie's turn to ask a question.
He frowned and looked at Liu Yan, asking with a puzzled expression, "Aunt Liu, there's something I just can't understand."
"Since the top human forces such as the Human Emperor's Palace, the Witch Clan, and the Fairy Palace were all wiped out by the alien races of the prehistoric world, how did the remaining human race manage to survive to this day without being exterminated?"
That's a very insightful question.
Hearing this, Zhao Keying and Su Jiu'er both looked at Liu Yan with curiosity.
He Xie waited quietly for an answer, but he did not expect Liu Yan to provide one.
Because Liu Yan was frozen for over a thousand years, she probably doesn't know what happened during that time.
However, Liu Yan's next answer refuted his idea.
Liu Yan took a sip of her flower tea and said with a hint of sadness, "The reason why the human race has been able to survive for so many years without a mythical-level expert is because when the Human Emperor fell, he left behind a contingency plan, giving the sect leader of the Witch Clan the opportunity to sacrifice himself to set up an array before his death."
"That's a very profound formation. I don't know its specific name, but I do know that the formation can suppress the level of intruders. No matter how high the level of a creature is, once it enters the formation's domain, the upper limit of its level will be suppressed to below the mythical level, or even below the legendary level."
"This formation was broken recently by the general of the Human Emperor Palace who betrayed the human race, in alliance with the alien races of the prehistoric world. This directly led to the complete defeat of the human race on the battlefield of all races, leaving them powerless to stop the invasion of all races."
Upon hearing this, He Xie felt a surge of murderous intent towards the so-called general of the Human Emperor's Palace.
In his eyes, such a traitor who betrays his race deserves to die a thousand times over.
Liu Yan put down her empty teacup and said calmly to He Xie, "Is there anything else you want to ask?"
He Xie thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No, for the time being."
"Then it's my turn to ask you." Liu Yan stared intently into He Xie's eyes and said in a serious tone, "I don't understand how your strength could have grown so rapidly in just one year?"
"this......"
He Xie was stumped by the question and didn't know how to answer it for a moment.
Just as he was thinking about how to explain, more than a dozen high-energy bodies suddenly appeared in the sky above the orphanage.
Their energy levels were so high that they all reached the level of mythical beings!
He Xie frowned and immediately got up and walked towards the door.
Seeing this, the others followed suit.
The moment they stepped out of the house, everyone was stunned by what they saw.
Above the orphanage, more than a dozen enormous, ancient alien races stood in mid-air, their numbers blotting out the sky.
Dragons, phoenixes, kun, peng... countless supreme creatures from mythology gathered together.
Upon seeing this oppressive scene, everyone in the orphanage paled.
Su Jiu'er had never seen such a suffocating scene before. Her nine tails went limp with fear, and she hid behind He Xie, trembling and clinging tightly to his arm.
Li Muke was so frightened that she burst into tears and clung tightly to Liu Yan's leg.
Zhao Keying, Song Yuxin, and Gu Xinyao were so frightened that they instinctively took several steps back, then followed Su Jiu'er and shrank behind He Xie, their palms sweating nervously.
"Godzilla the Evil Dragon, King Kong the Divine Ape, the Celestial Kun of the Midnight Sun... all the mythical-level powerhouses from the myriad races have actually arrived! What... what is going on?!"
Upon seeing the dozen or so enormous creatures above the orphanage, the well-traveled Liu Yan trembled, her pretty face turning deathly pale.
At this moment, the mythical creatures from all races above the orphanage, each one no weaker than her at her peak a thousand years ago, made her legs feel weak and almost unable to stand, even though she had no cultivation at the moment.
"Such abundant spiritual energy! This auspicious land is mine!"
"I want Hou Yi, the Taotie!"
"The Palace Master of the Fairy Palace belongs to me; you can have whatever else you want!"
"......"
The dozen or so mythical creatures high in the sky lit up when they saw the orphanage below, which was filled with extremely rich spiritual energy, and the people inside. They immediately began to distribute their spoils.
"Buzz—"
Suddenly, a figure fell from among them.
The falling speed was extremely fast.
It was so fast that it created a popping sound in the air due to friction.
It was so piercing that it made people's ears ring.
"winter--"
In the blink of an eye, the figure crashed heavily into the orphanage courtyard, creating a loud bang.
He Xie squinted and saw a middle-aged man with a dignified appearance.
This person's appearance was exactly the same as the middle-aged man who had been formed from a wisp of divine soul that we had seen on the young master's corpse before; it was indeed him.
That is, the father of that young master, the traitorous general from the Imperial Palace that Liu Yan mentioned!
"You dared to kill my son? Today I'll slaughter your entire family as a sacrifice to the heavens!"
The middle-aged man glared maliciously at He Xie and drew his sword from his waist with a whoosh.
In an instant, an extremely terrifying pressure from a mythical creature swept through the entire orphanage, causing the sky and clouds to change drastically.
Faced with the middle-aged man's overwhelming killing intent and the oppressive aura of the dozen or so mythical creatures high in the sky...
He Xie silently pulled out the Soul-Slaying Blade from his system inventory and chuckled, "I was originally planning to go and wipe you out myself, but I didn't expect you all to deliver yourselves to me, which saves me a lot of trouble."
As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly narrowed and he said:
"Swastika!"
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