Origins and History of the Black Tower Royal Family
Du Yuan was the woman who took Sangye and Rongcheng in; she was their master and also their mother. This woman loved to find children and small animals; those with spiritual roots were kept and taken in as disciples; those without were given to good families for adoption.
The number of spirit beasts they rescued was countless. On one occasion, they even "retrieved" a princess from the Hidden Dragon Clan who had not yet taken human form, forcing her parents to come to their door to demand her return.
Of course, it wasn't all a scene of "motherly love and filial piety" or "teacher-student friendship and brotherly respect." There were many rebellious individuals, such as the one who brought great disaster to Shifangwu, who was also the only little boy Du Yuan had taken in.
Sangye and Rongcheng were taken in early and have the deepest bond with Du Yuan.
Could the Du Yuan mentioned by Minur be the same person?
If Sangye and Rongcheng were to travel through time one after the other, it's highly likely that Du Yuan would be able to as well, and that he would land on the snow mountain, where he would be treated as a "suddenly arriving guide" and closely guarded by the snow mountain tribe.
Sangye was more eager than ever to find Du Yuan's whereabouts. She must have sensed something was wrong, which was why she managed to escape from the Snow Mountain tribe.
She wasn't worried that Du Yuan wouldn't survive in the snow mountain. Du Yuan also possessed both water and wood spiritual roots, and his spiritual root was the Du Ruo that bloomed from the source of water, making him far more powerful than Sangye and the other two.
Instead, they were worried that Du Yuan would be captured again by the Snow Mountain tribe.
The commotion at the other end of the hall gradually subsided. The vines that had been suffocating the two women were now severely deprived of oxygen. The other sentries worked together to push their physical and mental strength to the brink of collapse, giving the guide the opportunity to mentally invade them.
Even so, entering the mental landscape of the rioting sentinels was still extremely dangerous. Xia Meilong stopped the elderly Sophia and the wounded Mu An, and went in alone.
However, judging from her expression, she was in great difficulty. The pressure generated by the battle of mental energy on the field enveloped everyone's mental domain. Although Xia Meilong was an A-level guide, she did not have the advantage against the rioting sentinels.
Sang Ye snapped out of her daze after hearing Du Yuan's message, ran to the kitchen, pulled out a water hose—she had secretly slipped a piece of spring jade into the spout for easier access to water for cooking—and held the hose up to the tangled group of people.
With the advancement of technology, even water pipes have multiple modes. For example, the current one sprays out powerful water pressure, like a water gun, hitting them with great force, and its power is no less than that of a gun.
The spiritual spring, imbued with spiritual energy, drenched the group thoroughly, leaving them feeling icy cold, even with the base's heating on.
The barrage of attacks, indiscriminate and indiscriminate, left everyone speechless.
But the two mutated, rioting sentinels gradually quieted down.
Xia Meilong was soaked to the bone, but her tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed. Clearly, Sangye's mental support had played a significant role.
When Xia Meilong finally took a deep breath and pulled her mind away from their mental imagery, her sweat and spring water mixed together, and the hot sweat and cold water actually steamed up from her body.
Before her, two sentinels from the Snow Mountain tribe finally collapsed to the ground, falling into a coma of unknown fate.
Kuwano also stopped "irrigating".
Even after they fell into a coma, the two sentries continued to mutate. Their bodies kept expanding, their limbs kept changing, and their faces were no longer recognizable as human.
After their mental forms mutated, the two sentinels' mental strength surged to A-level in a short period. Xia Meilong's ability to escape unscathed after engaging them was a testament to her formidable strength.
Entering the riotous mental landscape is extremely dangerous unless one possesses overwhelming mental strength or is joined by multiple guides.
But for now, all we can do is let them continue to suffer this pain. One guide is old, one guide has a low mental level, one was just exhausted, and the last one is not a normal guide.
It's heartbreaking.
However, Minur did not know the whereabouts of Lieutenant General Keliu and the others.
Using black crystals to stimulate the spirit body has always been a "tradition" of the native inhabitants of Black Tower. However, due to the enormous side effects, far exceeding those of the two Sentinels in front of them, each tribe only allows the most powerful Sentinels to use it.
Perhaps due to this tradition, no guides were ever born on Black Tower. At that time, they also did not have the concept of sentinels and guides.
Until several hundred years ago, a family fleeing from war had their travel ship malfunction and crash on the planet Black Tower. Due to insufficient manpower and the backward technology of Black Tower, they were unable to repair the travel ship and were "captured" by the tribes of Black Tower.
Almost all of their people were guides, bringing the concepts of spiritual entities and sentinels to Black Tower, and providing spiritual guidance to the core members of various tribes; thus, they later became known as the "Black Tower Royal Family".
Human nature is the same everywhere. In order to keep them completely, the tribes sent their "best sentinels" to arrange marriages. Under threat, some of them married and had offspring.
The situation reversed when the tribes began to rely on royal guides.
According to Minur, even those sentinels who received mental counseling were not immune to the effects of the royal psyche, and many were driven insane each year. They seemed to retain only a sliver of "warmth" for their own children.
Until the empire came.
The royal family members quickly reached an agreement; the accumulated influence of their ideology had long been implanted in their minds, and all the tribes signed, relinquishing their sovereignty.
Then, one day, they suddenly disappeared with the enormous wealth from the Empire's trade and the most advanced warships, leaving their so-called "husbands" and "children" to fend for themselves on the planet.
The Empire adhered to the agreement, and no tracking or positioning devices were implanted on the warships. They all left the planet that had trapped them for hundreds of years, their whereabouts unknown.
When the empire descended, the tribes faced their doom.
The black crystals they depended on for survival were seized, and the tribe members were violently suppressed...
There is also division within the Snow Mountain tribe. As the high priest of the Snow Mountain tribe, Minur is a moderate and has never approved of this "suicidal behavior" of using black crystal radiation to stimulate the evolution of the spiritual body, so she never uses it herself.
However, another group, led by a warmongering clan leader, continued to use black crystals and constantly provoked and tested the empire's garrison bases.
However, after Du Yuan suddenly arrived at the snow mountain, with the help of a powerful guide to regulate their minds and suppress the frequency of their mutations, they became even more unscrupulous.
Meanwhile, the moderates, who were originally concerned about their own safety, gradually sided with the warmongers—as Sentinels, no one wanted to be without power, even if using the Black Crystal would bring irreversible consequences.
The current chief of the Snow Mountain tribe is one of the children who were "abandoned" back then.
Minur had been obstructing the tribesmen from using the Black Crystal, which had already greatly displeased the tribe chief; Du Yuan's disappearance brought the tribe chief's suspicions about her to their peak.
Minur was thus sent to guard the mine, as the chieftain wanted her to witness firsthand the harsh reality and the hardships of survival in the snow-capped mountains.
On the day the entire Snow Mountain tribe consumed the Black Crystal, resulting in a great mutation and invasion, Minur stood at the entrance of the mine, looking at his tribesmen who were no longer human, as if he saw the end of his tribe.
But she was powerless to change the situation.
Amidst the chaotic battle in the darkness and the mushroom illusions, she couldn't see where Lieutenant General Klü and his group had gone. It wasn't until the chieftain proudly brought the aliens before her to show off that she realized what he had done.
Witnessing the strange changes in her clansmen today almost completely shattered her already unstable mental state.
Minur revealed almost everything she knew, as if she were trapped in painful memories.
Minur's spiritual energy became increasingly violent, and the bulging veins on her temples were even visible to the naked eye, with blood surging inside, which was extremely frightening.
Aso Ment sensed something was wrong and immediately shouted, "Stop! Don't say anything! Shut up!"
Minur was just one step away from a mental uprising.
She was the one who forced Minur to speak just now, and she is also the one who is trying her best to stop the mental outburst.
But Minur could no longer hear anything from the outside world; she just kept repeating, over and over again, "Why did you do this? Why did you abandon us? Why, why, why!"
Aso Mente captured Xia Meilong and Mu An, but the two were immediately shut out as soon as they released their spiritual power, and their faces turned extremely ugly.
"Executive, she is shutting down the mental imagery."
A mental landscape can be opened up or closed down.
Just as Mu An locks Wu Jia Ning's mental image, the adult Sentinels also gain the ability to shut down their mental images.
However, once a mental image is closed, it can never be reopened.
No matter what happens inside, no one can help her. If the sentinel shuts down the mental imagery after the guide enters, and she doesn't have enough mental strength to break free, she will be trapped inside and become a living dead.
Aso Ment's daughter, Charlene, died in a similar accident.
"Whoosh!" A torrent shot straight toward Minur, whose eyes were lifeless. The unreasonable guide's spiritual power burst open the door that was about to close and kept surging into Minur's mental landscape.
Like a small boat adrift on a turbulent sea, the two doors eventually sank helplessly.
The culprit, holding a water pipe in one hand and a plate of freshly made lamb skewers in the other, tilted his head to look at his masterpiece.
Minur's eyes gradually cleared, his two wet braids hanging down his chest, and the crescent-shaped bones on his chest gleaming.
She gasped for breath like someone who had been rescued from drowning, and before she could react, a piece of lamb sprinkled with black pepper and cumin, exuding a rich aroma, was stuffed into her mouth.
This piece of meat is roasted perfectly. The lamb is firm and not bloody at all, yet not overcooked and tough. Half of the lamb is wrapped in fat, and with each bite, it bursts with flavorful oil. Swallowing it leaves you feeling much more refreshed.
Sangye turned off the water pipe and threw it aside, then placed the plate of lamb skewers on Minur's lap.
As a guide who can "release" spiritual power without entering a mental landscape, she is fearless and holds all the advantages.
This action left everyone speechless.
Since the departure of the royal family and Du Yuan, Minur has never received "spiritual cleansing" again, especially in this special form, which is designed to be costly and without regard to physical or mental health.
Have the base sentries always had such a good life?
Minur felt like crying.
He finished the whole plate of lamb skewers while sobbing.
The guide in front of them spoke in a devilish voice: "You said you didn't know the whereabouts of Lieutenant General Keliu and the others, but you didn't say you didn't know the whereabouts of Du Yuan either."
Minur paused, looking into Sangye's emerald-green eyes.
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