I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts-Chapter 344 - 243: The Origin of Extreme Evil

At first, I thought Nuannuan would nod.

Unexpectedly, she shook her head.

"How to obtain the final inheritance? No, I don’t know." Nuannuan straightforwardly denied.

"That’s its secret. If you want to know my secret, however, I can tell you."

Nuannuan sat on the sofa, slowly lifting one leg, hooking her pinky around the skirt fabric, and slowly lifting it up.

Han Zhan: "6"

She was definitely doing it on purpose.

Intentionally provoking to make Xiao Jin angry.

We’ll talk about your secret later. Let’s continue talking about the Slaughter Battlefield for now.

"Then do you have any information related to the Slaughter Battlefield that you can tell us?" Han Zhan calmed his mind and continued to ask.

Seeing Han Zhan not taking the bait, Nuannuan let go of the skirt fabric and sat properly again.

"I can tell you about the origin of ’Extreme Evil.’

The origin of Extreme Evil?

Is it referring to the City of Extreme Evil?

Hearing this term, Han Zhan and Gongyang Jin’s attention was once again drawn in.

"Extreme Evil, at first hearing this name, people would assume it refers to a gathering place of evil, a place where all evil should be exiled."

"But, is it really so?"

When Nuannuan seriously asked this question, Han Zhan and Gongyang Jin momentarily couldn’t answer.

Indeed, from the literal meaning, the City of Extreme Evil is a place for various forces to exile and exclude dissidents.

Over the years, the Five Great Forces have been doing just that.

But after Nuannuan’s reminder, it seemed something was not quite right.

"The children of evil people may not be evil themselves, and the descendants of good people are not necessarily good either."

"Evil people may have a good side, and good people may have an evil side. There never was anything that’s purely black or white."

"There is good within evil, and good can arise from evil."

"The City of Extreme Evil is so named because it currently represents more evil, but those who left it here hope it can give birth to good from extreme evil."

Through Nuannuan’s explanation, Han Zhan realized this completely contradicted his original understanding of the City of Extreme Evil.

He quickly noticed another thing.

"What exactly is the ’it’ you’re referring to?"

"I don’t know its name, but I know it’s a kind of Origin."

"Origin?!" Han Zhan paused for a moment.

There’s no need to elaborate on what an Origin is. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

It is something that even Tier Nine Ultimate Powerhouses would covet and go mad after.

Just possessing an Origin allows one to take that step and have the chance to ascend to the Realm of Transcendence!

Every Great Xia person, after becoming a Spirit Contract Master, would receive the world’s gift and have the ability to contract an Origin.

The Second Senior Brother Lin Jingxuan possesses the complete River Map and Luo Book, the Origin Han Zhan painstakingly brought out after experiencing two Fruit Worlds.

Due to merging with the Origin, Lin Jingxuan successfully comprehended and broke through Tier Nine.

Looking at Han Zhan, he possesses the Ancient Divine Soldiers Origin, and although its functions are unknown for now, it’s evident how powerful the Void Origin, seized and gifted by Teacher Li Shutong from the Alien Race, is.

Now, you’re telling me the City of Extreme Evil exists because of an Origin?!

"I must remind you, with your current performance, hoping to acquire the Origin is a slim chance."

Nuannuan’s next words directly poured cold water, extinguishing the excitement just ignited within Han Zhan.

"Is it because it represents evil?" At this point, Gongyang Jin interjected.

"Exactly, the Origin itself doesn’t embody good or evil, but it’s related to the Origin’s host and will be greatly influenced by the host."

This is also evident in Han Zhan’s case.

Han Zhan possesses the Void Origin but has never been able to fully merge with it. What seemed to be a highly useful Origin was later discovered to potentially harbor great danger for the revival of Void.

This is because the Void Origin’s host is the Void, who frenziedly devours world Origins to strengthen itself, hoping to take the step into transcendence—the "evil."

"You mean, this Origin’s host leans towards evil but could still harbor a sense of goodwill."

"So he left the Origin here, naming it the City of Extreme Evil, hoping that one day in the future, good will arise from extreme evil to change this Origin?"

"That seems to be the case," Nuannuan nodded.

This is a clue glimpsed during her endless years of being sealed here.

Though it may not be the whole truth, it should not be far off.

Even Nuannuan doesn’t know who he is.

"Then why did he seal you here?" Han Zhan asked another question.

Mentioning this question, Nuannuan gritted her teeth a little.

Her puffed cheeks looked quite cute.

"I wasn’t sealed by him, I just happened to be transported here during my slumber and then captured and sealed by that Origin."

"It sealed me to expedite the process of selecting an heir using my capabilities."

"Without me, it would have taken at least a hundred times longer to select a suitable heir."

The City of Extreme Evil was discovered on Blue Star over a thousand years ago, and multiplying that time by a hundred...

Regarding the information about the Origin, the City of Extreme Evil, and Nuannuan, this explanation now makes it all clear.

The Slaughter Battlefield is a means for the Origin to sift through and select an heir for the final inheritance.

Nuannuan is the fundamental reason the City of Extreme Evil’s time differs from the outer Blue Star by a tenfold gap.

Knowing is one thing, but solving the current predicament is another.

"If the Origin is ’evil,’ then over these millennia, has it ever given birth to ’good’?"

Han Zhan’s question was one even Nuannuan couldn’t answer.

"I often remain sealed, and the power accumulated secretly has only been used twice. Once was in the Anti-Xia Alliance’s Fulong City to fix the space-time anchor point. The other time is meeting you here now."

"The emergence of good from extreme evil cannot be said to have never happened. Otherwise, you would’ve been targeted and killed the moment you entered this Slaughter Battlefield."

"That you are still alive and well is the best proof that ’good’ once existed."

Upon careful thought, indeed. Descriptions of good and evil have long appeared in the Character Identity Card description.

If patrolmen and special envoys represent good and light, then rogues and conspiracy theorists represent evil and darkness.

There is good, but not much of it.

Just from the number of rogues, one can glimpse a bit of the situation.

The issue is quite severe.

"It’s almost midnight, the new points leaderboard will be refreshed. In any case, let’s first secure today’s first place on the leaderboard, and then we’ll make other plans."

After digesting the news brought by Nuannuan, Han Zhan made a decision.

"I’ll go ask Bob how much he earned from power-leveling today."

"And add today’s eleven million evil gold coins transferred to me by Mr. Zeng."

"Securing the first place on the points leaderboard is not impossible."