Youyou led the people to the unconscious disciples, but Hades only glanced at them from afar without getting close, and coldly mocked, "Tch, is this even worth begging me for! You're becoming more and more pathetic."
“Yes, big brother!” Youyou nodded obediently in agreement.
"..." Hades seemed to choke, frowned, and turned his head with a casual wave of his hand, instantly sending some energy sweeping towards the disciples. The next moment, You You felt the unconscious disciples breathing heavily and powerfully, their chests rising and falling noticeably.
That's good!
Yuan Qi quickly stepped forward to check on them, and after a moment, her expression brightened, and she nodded to You You. She breathed a sigh of relief; it seemed everyone was alright. The reason they hadn't woken up immediately was probably because, like Ling Qi, they had been temporarily unconscious due to the appearance of the Underworld King.
"Thank you, brother! You've worked so hard!" She immediately turned to thank Hades.
Hades' lips twitched noticeably. He gave her a strange look and then said after a while, "You really are... completely different from before. You're practically..." practically a different person.
"In the past?" After resolving the matter with her disciples, You You finally had time to ponder his words. "Your Highness, when exactly are you referring to the past? Did you know me before? Who exactly am I?"
The Underworld Envoy always addressed her as Your Excellency. Although the Underworld King's appearance was somewhat explosive, every word he uttered expressed his familiarity with her. Moreover, he readily agreed to save people just for the sake of a mere "Big Brother," which only made Youyou more curious.
"You want to know?" Hades' eyes lit up, his face showing the excitement of finally winning back a point.
"Hmm." Although she knew very well that she had transmigrated, after hearing it so many times, she couldn't help but wonder if there was another reason for her transmigration.
He suddenly chuckled, revealing a really smug grin, "I'm not telling you! You can just keep guessing, hahaha..."
"..." It seems like the person Hades knows has a bad relationship with him, and they even seem to have a grudge. But what's with this childish, vengeful tone? Is this how you big shots always act?
However, it seems she won't get anything out of her now.
"Alright, do you have anything else to say? If not, I'm going back to sleeping." Hades seemed to have had enough of laughing and urged him impatiently.
"You're going back?" You You was taken aback, not expecting him to continue playing Ning Hui.
"Nonsense!" Hades said matter-of-factly, "I didn't die in this life, so why can't I go back?" He had specially arranged a good destiny for his incarnation to cultivate immortality and attain enlightenment.
"My lord, but it's the underworld..." The underworld messenger was also anxious, as if he wanted to dissuade him.
"Shut up!" Before he could finish speaking, Hades glared at him and said, "Don't think I don't know. You were involved in my early awakening too. I put you in charge of the Underworld temporarily, not so you could team up with others to sabotage me. Let me say this again, you won't be taking a vacation for the next ten thousand years."
"...Your subordinate was wrong!" The Underworld Envoy slapped his knees and knelt down perfectly.
Hades seemed to have already understood his true nature, so he ignored him and raised his hand to make a hand seal to transform back into Ning Hui.
"Wait a minute!" You You thought for a moment and quickly said, "I do have something else I'd like to ask Hades."
"What is it now?" He stopped as expected.
"It's about the last cataclysmic event," You You asked. "I want to know, what exactly happened back then? What did the Dragon Clan do that led to the destruction of the world? Why did Heaven punish the God Clan? And what's the deal with the seal on the Sage and Heavenly Sacred Mountain?"
"You didn't know?" Hades looked at him in surprise, then seemed to remember something. "Oh, you forgot."
He frowned, suddenly abandoning his previous casual expression, and sighed, "Speaking of this matter, it's not just the gods... all living beings in the entire Six Realms are participants, all are guilty, and the destruction of the world is inevitable."
"..." All beings of the Six Realms! What does that mean?
Not only Youyou, but everyone present was stunned.
"Let alone the Heavenly Dao being angry, even I..." He stopped halfway through his sentence, sighed, "This is a long story. If you want to know, let's find a place and I'll tell you. Perhaps you can change your mind someday when you think about it." After saying that, he turned and left the room, heading towards the side hall next door.
The group exchanged glances and followed. Hades was already seated in the main seat, looking like he was about to have a long talk, and they sat down beside him.
"Actually, what happened back then wasn't anything special. It was just that the people were ignorant, and the gods helped the wicked and fueled the flames..." Hades then began to recount the events of that year.
The more You You heard, the more shocked he became, and suddenly he understood why the gods had been wiped out.
The Six Realms of ancient times were a completely different world from the Six Realms of today...
The most crucial difference was the male-to-female ratio. At that time, there were no celestial maidens or anything like that, nor were there any restrictions based on spiritual roots. Whether a mortal possessed spiritual roots was unrelated to gender; it was all randomly determined by birth. It was similar to the cultivation novels Youyou had read before, except the proportion of those with spiritual roots was much higher. Back then, over 90% of mortals possessed spiritual roots.
In other words, it was a true era where everyone cultivated immortality!
All mortals with spiritual roots can cultivate immortality or become gods, but because women are born with the responsibility of procreation and their physical constitution is slightly inferior to that of men, they are naturally at a disadvantage from the start. Even though both men and women embark on the path of cultivation, the number of women is ultimately lower than that of men.
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