Summit of the Old Gods-Chapter 1165 - 1079: Life and Death
The world was enveloped in a dead silence.
The angry words of the Faceless Jade Venerable seemed to still linger in the ears of all beings, echoing for a long time.
Even Rou Paperman and Qing Tu, such formidable beings, were struck speechless, looking up in shock at the gigantic "Jade Corpse Mountain."
When their former homeland was trampled and shattered, they had only seen the Jade Venerable and the Jade Venerable Minions.
The Old Gods always believed that the Pangda Jade Venerable was indeed the true form of their opponent.
But looking now...
Could the true body of the Jade Venerable actually be a mountain of corpses?
These corpses, are they not her clan members?
Rou Paperman gazed at the distorted, agonized faces, her shocked expression gradually becoming complicated.
The densely packed White Jade Corpses piled into a mountain, without exception, each with their chests hollowed out.
Their hearts were ruthlessly gouged out!
This clan is named the White Jade Clan.
They should never have possessed a unique White Jade Heart.
And they should never have been discovered by the Divine Demons!
The heart is the essence of the entire Jade Body of the White Jade Clan, and the Divine Demons would crush the White Jade Heart and apply it to their stone skin to slightly heal their decaying bodies.
And thus, disaster befell them.
After all, as the years went by, the bodies of the Divine Demons would gradually decay, and the energy they could absorb and use would diminish, until finally perishing.
What exactly are Divine Demons?
They possess immense power, capable of conquering all within sight, meant by birth to dominate all of creation.
They were meant to rule over all forever.
Yet, Divine Demons cannot attain immortality!
They can only watch helplessly as their bodies decay, eventually dying as humbly as the lowliest of creatures.
Among all the Divine Demons, how many would truly wish to abandon their lives and relinquish their supreme authority?
The emergence of the White Jade Clan changed everything completely.
The unique White Jade Heart provided the Divine Demons with a path to extend their lives, the only path they found throughout their long existence.
Hence, the White Jade Clan became a target for the Divine Demons.
Most Divine Demons were rational.
They desired to domesticate the White Jade Clan to continuously harvest the "White Jade Heart."
In fact, the Divine Demons did indeed implement this plan.
Unfortunately, the good times didn’t last long.
Some Divine Demons, on the brink of death, urgently needed the White Jade Heart, while others, though less urgent, were unwilling to forfeit their benefits.
An internal war inevitably broke out.
Amid this unprecedented chaos, a piece of terrible news arrived: the White Jade Clan had been exterminated.
Exterminated?!
The internal strife abruptly halted, and the Divine Demons swiftly headed to the realm where the White Jade Clan was kept, only to find them dead.
Each White Jade Clan member had their heart removed!
All that was left for the Divine Demons were a pile of worthless skeletons.
Clearly, someone had taken advantage of the internal conflict to launch a sneak attack and took all the White Jade Hearts.
Such a foolish act infuriated the Divine Demons to the point of exploding!
They couldn’t wait to tear the perpetrator to pieces!
Just what kind of idiot would, out of short-sighted greed, sabotage the future of the Divine Demon race?
And this hated perpetrator was indeed someone of considerable power.
The White Jade Clan was the most valuable resource to the Divine Demons, and all factions within the God Demon Camp stationed strong guards to monitor and protect the valuable resource.
However, all the Divine Demons guarding the White Jade Clan were slaughtered!
That meant eight Divine Demons in total!
Each of them was a formidable powerhouse... Did they really all perish?
After all, once a Divine Demon dies, there are no remains; only Origin Energy disperses as the Divine Soul ascends.
At that time, even Wang Quan, who was called upon temporarily, couldn’t find a single Divine Soul that had died in battle.
It’s likely that the perpetrator had consumed them all on the spot.
The Divine Demons couldn’t determine whether it was an insider stealing under the cover of monitoring, or an external force executing a sneak attack.
To this day, there is no definitive conclusion about who the true culprit was in exterminating the Jade Venerable Clan.
The only certain thing is that the already discordant God Demon Camp completely broke apart because of this incident.
The dying Divine Demons, stripped of their last hope, turned against each other.
The flames of war spread more and more fiercely!
Until finally, this internal war involved every single Divine Demon.
And it was precisely at this point, amidst the chaos of battle, that a new presence appeared, disrupting everything.
The White Jade Clan had not been completely exterminated!
A faceless White Jade Clan member once again set foot in the homeland of the Divine Demons.
She launched a surprise attack from the shadows, slaying the first Divine Demon, then annihilating a squad, and eventually crushing several Divine Demons.
By the time the Divine Demons completely realized this unique existence, it was already too late!
A grand massacre unfolded utterly.
The originally self-destructing and self-extincting Divine Demons, under absolute pressure, instead united together, but in the end, still had their homeland trampled by the ferocious Jade Venerable Clan.
Exile began.
Next came the long years of fleeing.
Until one day, the world of humans welcomed a group of obsolete existences, battered and desperate, refusing to exit the stage of history.
Since the 1980s of the human era, the masses fooled by the Divine Demons forever lived under a gigantic lie.
Humanity knelt reverently, worshiping a group of lost and desolate beings.
Reverentially referring to them as...
Lord God.
Now, the dream of the Lord Gods, to cling to life and rule the Three Realms, has shattered.
At least on the land of Da Xia, a young man of the Human Clan slaughtered the Gods, crushed the Evil Demons, and ascended to the Peak of Gods and Demons.
The surviving Divine Demons, regardless of their strength, could only live under his will.
There was no room for defiance.
And that same White Jade Clan member who had caused the Gods to flee in disarray also came to the human world; with past lessons learned, she changed tactics, planning to gradually consume and remediate the Divine Demons.
She did not expect, however, that the humans, once harshly enslaved by the Divine Demons, held an unparalleled explosive power, managing to seize power and replace the regime within just a few months.
The Human Clan completely overturned the old order, entirely replacing the Divine Demons.
Undeniably, the Faceless Jade Venerable still maintained a high posture; she... was truly too powerful.
So powerful she could overlook so much.
Days, months, years.
These units of time only applied to the short-lived Human Clan; to her, time held no meaning.
So she quickly awaited the new god of the Human Clan.
She attempted to share her ideals with this young human, thinking he could understand her.
Indeed, he did understand.
But like her, he was equally stubborn, with principles of his own.
From expectation to disappointment, to parting ways in discord, and then...
Another clash between survival and doom ensued!
Who was right and who was wrong is an interesting question.
Was the Faceless Jade Venerable wrong?
A life for a life, it’s only fair and just.
Beyond the "blood debt," she thoroughly saw through the essence of the Divine Demon Power System, understanding that creatures within this framework had hearts that decayed far earlier than their bodies.
She knew how cruel and cold Divine Demons were, realizing that this was a group of remnants that must be purged!
Was she wrong?
Then... was Lu Ran wrong?
Should he have given up all the Divine Demon System as she wished, handing over the Human World Home, and the lives of billions of brethren to the Faceless Jade Venerable?
Hoping she would treat himself, his family, and compatriots well, praying she wouldn’t change her mind, capriciously turning the world to stone...
Who was right and who was wrong.
Righteousness or wickedness.
At this moment, the only thing between Lu Ran and the Jade Venerable that could be distinguished was two words:
Life, Death.
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