Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 579: The Battle of the Highest Scale in History
“Pottery jar?”
Hearing Gan Tian call him, Lu Yang interrupted the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s explanation.
Unlike the aged and crude pottery jar paintings Lu Yang was familiar with, which required guesswork to decipher their contents, this jar painting from the ancient Qiongqi’s burial objects was exceptionally exquisite.
The painting depicted cataclysmic changes in heaven and earth, resembling the impending arrival of doomsday. All living beings were like ants. Even through the pottery jar, Lu Yang could feel the extreme sense of despair and the inability to resist before such mighty power. The ancient Qiongqi spread its wings, desperately protecting its race.
The painting’s intent was to illustrate the ancient Qiongqi’s glorious achievements, for it had protected the Qiongqi Tribe during a great catastrophe.
However, Lu Yang’s focus wasn’t on the ancient Qiongqi, but on the painting’s background.
This doomsday-like catastrophe originated from four figures in the background. They were blurry, but their every movement displayed their boundless power.
“These four figures should be the Four Ancient Immortals,” Gan Tian stated confidently. Only the legendary Four Ancient Immortals could have forced the ancient Qiongqi to spread its wings to protect its clansmen.
“That should be the case.” Lu Yang nodded, his expression slightly solemn. He had roughly deduced the contents of the painting.
“But the question is, what kind of opponent could warrant the Four Ancient Immortals to join forces?” Gan Tian was especially perplexed.
Judging by how they’re standing in a row, the Four Ancient Immortals should be on the same side. What enemy in ancient times could have made these four legendary invincible beings unite? Gan Tian sifted through all the ancient texts in her mind but found no enemy that fit the bill.
Lu Yang fell silent. Of course, there was one—the mysterious existence capable of assassinating the Everlasting Immortal Fairy and enraging the Four Ancient Immortals.
This painting depicted the Four Ancient Immortals confronting the immortal who assassinated the Everlasting Immortal Fairy. It was different from the usual sparring among the Five Ancient Immortals, which aimed to exchange cultivation insights, learn from one another, identify weaknesses, and mutually improve—they never delivered lethal blows with the intent to kill.
This time was different. The Four Ancient Immortals battled with the mysterious immortal. The five immortals fought fiercely, not holding back. Perhaps no battle in history could match the scale of this one!
It was the most powerful battle in history!
An unparalleled battle of the era!
Not even half-immortals were qualified to intervene in this battle!
But Lu Yang couldn’t tell Gan Tian all this. Big Senior Sister had warned that the mastermind’s identity and purpose are unknown, and that the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s existence must not be revealed. If the mastermind discovers the Everlasting Immortal Fairy resurrected, who knows if they would kill everyone who knows of her existence?
Lu Yang shook his head, indicating he also had no idea who the Four Ancient Immortals’ opponent was.
Just as Gan Tian was disappointed, Lu Yang pointed out another detail in the painting. “Third Senior Sister, look. There are other planets in the background of this painting. These planets have a ring of light around them, probably protective barriers.”
The Four Ancient Immortals did not lose their reason to anger. Even while fighting, they had spare attention to protect these planets. Without this layer of protection, more than half of the living beings in the entire universe might have become casualties.
“It really is.” Gan Tian was extremely surprised. This is a major discovery. Current historical records only mention the Nine-Layers Immortal saving people with Xirang Soil; there are no other records of the other three immortals saving anyone. This had led to endless debates in historical academia about the other three immortals’ characters.
One thing can now be confirmed—the Four Ancient Immortals didn’t view all living beings as ants.
Lu Yang was actually not the one who discovered that the Four Ancient Immortals had protected the planets. He never saw them act and didn’t know what the light rings around the planets were; it was the Everlasting Immortal Fairy who recognized them.
In his mental space, Lu Yang furrowed his brow. He had ascertained that the Four Ancient Immortals were the Ancient Nameless One. However, if they had employed methods to protect the stars and planets during the battle, it would contradict the historical records he knew.
Historical records documented that the Ancient Nameless One refined the stars into continents, causing countless casualties and a gap in history where even the ancient language wasn’t passed down. The Great Qian Dynasty was built on the ruins, inaugurating the era of human dynasties.
If the Four Ancient Immortals had refined the stars, how could they have disregarded life and death during this process and caused a historical gap?
“Could it be that after refining the stars into continents, something else happened, resulting in the historical gap?”
Another memory suddenly struck Lu Yang. There was also the Ember Legacy Dynasty, whose origin is unknown!
We discovered the Ember Legacy Dynasty in the Everlasting Secret Domain. Calculating the years, it should be in the ancient era. Yet strangely, there are no records of the dynasty now, with not even its name being mentioned!
What exactly happened in the Ember Legacy Dynasty?
“Old Lu, what’s painted on this pottery jar? Come take a look.” Meng Jingzhou called Lu Yang over. It’d be a waste not to use such a living fossil.
The pottery jar that Meng Jingzhou referred to was on the other side of the main tomb. It depicted a fierce battle between giants. A qiongqi and a true dragon were engaged in a huge battle, and a figure radiating light descended from the sky, stopping the fight between these two peerless demon emperors.
Before Lu Yang could answer, he heard Gan Tian, the history scholar, explain. “This is a famous Buddhist legend you’ve probably heard. The Qiongqi Tribe and the Dragon Tribe are natural enemies with irreconcilable conflicts. Once, a qiongqi and a true dragon fought, flooding the eight wildernesses and plunging the world into chaos. Fortunately, an enlightened Buddhist intervened, subduing the qiongqi and the true dragon in exchange for peace in the world. This is the origin of the Buddhist saying that enlightened Buddhists have the ‘ability to subdue dragons and vanquish tigers.’
“According to my research, this battle was likely a competition between the ancient Qiongqi and the Dragon old ancestor for a position as an immortal, but they were interrupted by someone.
“Actually, I’m also puzzled about why the painting is placed here. It clearly shows the scene of subduing a dragon and vanquishing a tiger, which tarnishes the Qiongqi Tribe’s reputation. Why would it be displayed here as a burial object?”
Meanwhile, Lu Yang was listening to the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s immortal words with rapt attention.
“The old Qiongqi had a young daughter. She was very beautiful and talented, nearly catching up to the old Qiongqi. The little Qiongqi had many pursuers, but she wasn’t interested in any of them; she only liked the Qilin Immortal. Coincidentally, the Qilin Immortal also liked her, and they hit it off. Later, a prodigy from the Dragon Tribe found out about it. She was so incensed that she went to confront the little Qiongqi, and they ended up fighting.
“However, how could the little Qiongqi be a match for the Dragon prodigy? She couldn’t win. Right then, the Qilin Immortal came to mediate, blatantly taking sides. Only after much persuasion did he manage to pacify both. I heard he had to kneel on sword arrays every day after returning home.
“Later on, the few of us put our heads together and wove this incident into a Buddhist story.”
Lu Yang, “...”
What should I do? Should I tell Third Senior Sister about the Qilin Immortal’s affair being discovered by his wife?
If the Qilin Immortal finds out, can I even leave this tomb alive? 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
“But speaking of which, why is only the old Qiongqi buried here? Where’s her daughter? Given the old Qiongqi’s favoritism, they should be buried together.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy was bewildered. The little Qiongqi was only at the Apex Transcendent Tribulation Stage, not even a half-immortal. She should have died of old age before the old Qiongqi.
