Upon closer inspection, the man in black turned out to be an elderly man with gray and thinning hair.
His eye sockets were deeply sunken, and his skin was wrinkled, making him look like he had lived for a very long time.
The man in black chuckled, "That's because the Immortal City is no longer the Immortal City it was during the day!"
Lan Hua frowned. "What do you mean by that!"
The old man in black said, "Once midnight passes, the City of Immortality will become the City of Evil, and everyone inside will fall into bloodlust and madness!"
Lan Hua stared at the rear hall of the Immortal City, praying in her heart that Du Renjie would not fall into the trap and would be able to break through.
Baxia shrank back in fright and asked curiously, "Is there a story behind this?"
The old man looked up at the sky, seemingly lost in endless memories.
"Tens of thousands of years ago, the City of Immortality wasn't called this; it was called the Palace of Longevity!"
Lan Hua's heart skipped a beat. Good heavens, this timeline is ancient enough. It's taken us back tens of thousands of years to ancient times.
The old man continued, "To be precise, back then we were called the Longevity Clan, not the Immortal Clan. The Immortal City wasn't called that either; it was called the Palace of Longevity!"
"us?"
Lan Hua had already figured some things out; it seemed that the old man in front of her was of the same clan as the people in the city.
"Tens of thousands of years ago, a powerful figure suddenly came to this place, claiming to be a person from the Pill God Temple, and brought something with him, which was a black box."
That man's cultivation was unfathomable, and his every move exuded an irresistible authority. He wanted us to do something.
Lan Hua asked curiously, "What is it?"
The old man said, "Let's study the composition of the things inside the box and see if we can find a way to counteract them, because my Longevity Clan not only lives long, but is also proficient in medicine!"
Lan Hua frowned, feeling that the contents of the box looked somewhat familiar, but she couldn't be sure.
"And then?" Baxia asked.
The old man said, "Before that person left, he said that the contents of the box were extremely terrifying."
Until a method to control this is developed, we must not wander outside this place, otherwise the world will descend into chaos.
At that time, Fang Xin, the patriarch of the Changsheng Clan, made a promise that if the ingredients in the box could not be deciphered, the people of the Changsheng Clan would never set foot in this place again.
After that person left, he used his great supernatural powers to seal this place away, isolating it from the world forever!
The more Lan Hua listened, the more she felt that the contents of the black box resembled the eerie mist in the forbidden area behind the Pill God Palace, so she quickly asked:
What exactly is in that box? Is it all shrouded in mystery?
The old man paused for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No, it seems to be part of the body. It's not very big. According to the older generation, that thing doesn't look like a human."
Upon hearing this, Lan Hua immediately relaxed. It would be best if it wasn't some strange fog; otherwise, they would have to leave this place immediately.
"Brother Hua, don't interrupt, old man, what happened next?" Baxia continued to ask.
"After the clan leader opened the box, he began to study the body."
The investigation revealed a substance within it that, if combined with our clan's longevity techniques, could seemingly grant immortality!
This left both Lan Hua and Ba Xia stunned.
Within such a small body lies something that countless cultivators dream of: immortality and eternal youth—it's truly defying the heavens.
"Senior, if I'm not mistaken, this thing should have side effects, right?" Lan Hua asked.
"good!"
The old man sighed, "The clan leader, Fang Xin, was only guessing, but he didn't know the truth, so he secretly took that substance."
As you can probably guess, Fang Xin appears normal during the day, but at midnight he descends into madness and becomes extremely bloodthirsty.
"Fang Xin, driven to madness and bloodlust, began to massacre his clansmen. In just one night, hundreds of people were killed or injured."
Strangely, everyone bitten by the clan leader fell into the same madness.
Fortunately, not many people were bitten. The entire Changsheng tribe mobilized their resources to quell the tragedy!
Lan Hua asked curiously, "What happened to the person who went mad?"
The old man said, "The clansmen did not kill them immediately, but instead imprisoned them."
It wasn't until the next morning that they discovered their tribesmen had returned to normal and were completely unaware of what had happened the previous night!
Lan Hua frowned. "This is so strange!"
"Although they appear normal, the tribespeople dare not let them out without permission and keep them confined in the forbidden area."
As night fell, the forbidden area was filled with howls and screams, and a fierce battle even broke out!
Now, the tribespeople dared not release them again, intending to imprison them until they died of old age.
"But unexpectedly, after a hundred years, these madmen did not change their appearance at all, and their vitality was still vigorous, showing no signs of dying of old age."
Another century has passed, and these people are still the same. The young people remain young, but the tribespeople outside have changed drastically.
The clansmen then realized that the substance extracted by Clan Chief Fang Xin seemed to truly possess the power to grant immortality.
"Immortality is a great temptation for the outsiders."
Although our race is known as the Longevity Race, and even without deliberate cultivation, we can live for a thousand years through the art of longevity, we cannot achieve immortality.
"Finally, some of the younger members of the clan could no longer resist the temptation and began to covet the contents of that black box."
Around six thousand years ago, the calamity of the immortal race finally arrived.
The young people of the clan swallowed the substance from that body together, catching the rest of the clan off guard and plunging them into a major reshuffle.
Of the already small number of people in the tribe, most of them died.
Those who did not want to become part of such a bloodthirsty and insane clan left the Palace of Immortality and sought another place to live in the sealed land.
Those fanatical clansmen called themselves the Immortal Clan, and for thousands of years, the Immortal Clan has been trying to exterminate my Immortal Clan.
They do not tolerate the existence of so-called "outsiders"!
Lan Hua was shocked to hear this; the once-prosperous Changsheng clan had fallen apart.
"How many members of the immortal race are left today?"
The old man said dejectedly, "No, there are none left. The number of people born from the Longevity Clan is not large to begin with. After six thousand years, I am the only one left!"
For so many years, I've been hoping someone could break the seal, and today has finally come!
Lan Hua asked in surprise, "Six thousand years has passed, so the current lords of the Immortal City must have extremely high cultivation levels, right? But I see that they seem to be only Yuanxiang Realm experts!"
"This is naturally caused by the power of the seal!"
The old man lamented, "You can't even begin to imagine how terrifying that person's cultivation was ten thousand years ago. He not only set up an ethereal seal, preventing us from leaving, but also..."
It further altered the rules of heaven and earth here, suppressing our cultivation and preventing us from breaking through to the Celestial Realm.
Baxia sighed, "This is a grand undertaking; ordinary celestial beings simply couldn't do it!"
Looking at the Immortal City in the distance, Lan Hua said worriedly, "What about my friends? It's already past midnight, the time when demons run rampant!"
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