Future Beast World: Becoming A Pampered Beauty-Chapter 451 - 390: Heavenly Realm
Minos’s handsome face fell. "It’s perfectly normal for your first divination to be wrong. Come on, give Dad the Divination Sticks. I’ll take a look myself!"
’Luoluo has been with me this whole time, so how could someone else have possibly beaten me to it?!’
Little Apple pouted and tossed the pile of Divination Sticks to him. "You’re so mean, Daddy! You actually don’t believe me! I did the divination several times. There’s absolutely no way I’m wrong!"
Minos, refusing to give up until he hit a wall, stubbornly performed the divination several more times. In the end, he couldn’t even maintain the gentle, faint smile that usually graced his lips!
’It really isn’t his child!’
...
「Outer World, Desolate Domain.」
An exquisitely beautiful white fox suddenly opened its eyes.
It leaped down from a mountain stream, instantly transforming into a Heaven and Earth Divine Beast thousands of feet tall. Its form was as massive as a mountain, making it impossible for Mortal Beasts to look upon its true appearance. The nine magnificent, enormous, snow-white foxtails trailing behind it were so dazzlingly beautiful they seemed like a divine miracle! Even heaven and earth themselves seemed to show it favor!
The Celestial Fox walked among the mountain ranges, and the omnipresent clouds and mist parted before it.
A single, easy stride covered a hundred li, a magnificent Divine Beast strolling through the Great Wilderness World. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
From time to time, it would lower its head and sniff at something, as if searching for something important.
A massive, magnificent Fire Phoenix circled in the sky before slowly landing on a nearby mountaintop, transforming into a devilishly handsome man dressed in red.
He held a folded fan of Golden Rattan Wood, from which dangled a string of Agate Tassels. Such a color combination, both gaudy and elegant, somehow looked dashingly noble in his hands, exuding an air of indescribable abandon.
He snapped his folded fan shut, tapped it lightly against his left palm, and sighed with emotion. "To think that the once blessed and prosperous Wu Lian Domain of the Heavenly Realm has been reduced to this desolate, uninhabited state. Its fortune has truly run its course..."
"The Heavenly Realm was obliterated a hundred thousand years ago. You were only born a few centuries ago; when could you have possibly been here?" the Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox remarked casually.
Fei Yuan smiled. "I once found a Floating World Scroll in your study. The prosperous scene depicted within truly made my heart yearn for it; I almost didn’t want to leave the scroll. That was the true peak of the Beast World. The Spiritual Energy today is much thinner than it was back then. Divine Beast Species have either gone extinct or their lineages have been broken, and even the few remaining Abandoned Divine Beast Clans can barely sustain themselves..."
"The cycle of karma. A curse from the heavens."
A long sigh dissipated among the clouds.
Fei Yuan’s gaze hardened. He was about to say more when his expression suddenly changed. With a flick of his folded fan, invisible Wind Blades shot out and struck a giant Crocodile Beast that had leaped from the river.
The Crocodile Beast was instantly sliced in two, its blood staining a large patch of the river red.
"It seems this Great Wilderness isn’t completely empty after all. There are still a few living things left."
"This is a burial ground. There will be many Tomb Guardians, as well as tomb raiders. Be careful."
"I know."
Fei Yuan reverted to his original form and flew ahead to scout the path.
The figures of the two slowly vanished once more into the chaotic clouds and mist.
...
「Years passed in the blink of an eye.」
Sang Luo caressed her slightly showing belly. She didn’t even need to guess whose child she was carrying this time.
’It’s always the thing you want the least that’s bound to happen.’
Only the offspring of a Divine Beast could have such a long pregnancy.
Yan had only used her as a substitute, so Sang Luo originally hadn’t wanted this child to be born. But now that she was pregnant, she couldn’t bear to get rid of it. She remembered how even with the little lion, as much as she had hated Duotu at the time, she had never harmed the child.
Besides, Minos had already foreseen the child’s arrival. Even if she wanted to terminate the pregnancy midway, she feared Minos and the others wouldn’t allow her to do so.
The offspring of a Divine Beast were far too precious, considered a blessing from the heavens.
Minos had also told Sang Luo that if she abandoned this child, she would likely incur punishment from the heavens. But if she successfully gave birth to the offspring of an Ancient Divine Beast, she would receive a heavenly boon.
Whether it was a threat or the truth, Sang Luo ultimately decided to keep the child.
Sang Luo found some time to make a trip back to Qingqiu, but she didn’t find Yan.
Sang Luo looked at the empty courtyard, where a thick layer of dust had accumulated on the ground. The place was deserted. She then went to ask the old village chief, who told her that the Divine Venerable had left several years ago and had never come back.
She also returned to the Phoenix Palace, but Fei Yuan hadn’t been back in all these years, either. There was no telling where he’d gone. She couldn’t sense his mate mark, and the messages she sent him never received a reply.
Sang Luo vaguely guessed that the two of them might have left together.
Fei Yuan wasn’t the type to deliberately ignore her messages. Most likely, the two of them had long since left the Beast World Continent and gone to another dimensional world.
In a quiet chamber, Minos opened his eyes. He had glimpsed a scene from within the river of time:
A lighthouse-shaped Heaven-Reaching Divine Tree whose main trunk pierced the clouds. Its branches and leaves were almost completely withered, with only a scant few remaining.
A tri-colored ball of light coalesced above the treetop. A giant Nine-tailed White Fox descended from the sky, swallowed the light, and then vanished into the void. Following closely beside it was a jet-black Fire Phoenix.
And after the two had left, the ancient tree rapidly withered, turning to fine dust and dissipating into the air...
...
After Sang Luo returned to the Holy Palace, Minos told her of the scene he had witnessed.
Sang Luo wasn’t too surprised. ’So the master and disciple really are together.’ But what was the Heaven-Reaching Divine Tree? She had never seen such a thing.
"Can you see where the two of them went?"
"To the Heavenly Realm, outside the Beast World."
"The Heavenly Realm?"
"Yes. The Heavenly Realm, the Earth Realm... these are all terms from ancient times. I’m not entirely clear on the specifics myself; I’ve only seen them described in Ancient Books."
Seeing Sang Luo’s curiosity, Minos poured her a cup of herbal tea and began to explain at an unhurried pace. "The history of the Beast World is long and profound, making it difficult for later generations to glimpse the origins of its civilization. Tens of thousands of years ago, before the Era of Divine Fall, the Beast World was divided into the Heavenly Realm and the Earth Realm. The Desolate Ancient Divine Beast Clan lived in the Heavenly Realm, while the Earth Realm was the primordial foundation of today’s Beast World Continent."
"Later, for some unknown reason, the Spiritual Energy slowly depleted, and the Heavenly Realm and the Desolate Ancient Divine Beast Clan perished together. Some descendants of the Ancient Divine Beast Clan took fragments of the Heavenly Realm and evolved them into new dimensional worlds, such as the Holy Domain where we of the Angel Clan have lived for generations. Other Ancient Divine Beasts retained their wings and bloodlines but chose to retreat into the Outer World to protect themselves and avoid bringing disaster upon their species, making them difficult to find."
"Some also say that the true Heavenly Realm is still preserved in the world, but it has been sealed, and outsiders cannot enter. There are also rumors that someone once visited the Heavenly Realm and heard that it had long since turned into a barren wasteland... Whether any of this is true is impossible to know."
"Are you saying that Yan and Fei Yuan have gone to the Heavenly Realm?"
"Yes, it’s possible," Minos said. "I, for one, am more inclined to believe the Heavenly Realm hasn’t disappeared. Perhaps for its own protection, or for some other reason, another power sealed it away. If that’s the case, there must be a Guardian."
"The Celestial Fox God Venerate was left behind in this world, perhaps with a duty to fulfill. I suspect he is the gatekeeper of the Heavenly Realm, and the key to enter and exit lies in his hands."
"But what would the two of them be doing in the Heavenly Realm?" Sang Luo asked doubtfully.
