Translator: Larbre Studio  Editor: Larbre Studio

“Is the thing sealed here an ancient demon?!” Eva Carpe's eyes widened.

 A tinge of disappointment flashed across Aoki Yui's crystal clear eyes, as she replied, “Indeed, what was killed here should be the source of our bloodline.”

 “Your bloodline?” Faul Anderson took a sip of wine, his light gray eyes moved away from the mural and fell on the delicate face of the Aoki Yui.

 Aoki Yui then talked about the legend of Tamamo no Mae. In her soft yet sweet voice, everyone kept quiet and listened while thinking about their next step.

 “Why do you think that thing must still be in the Great Deities Palace?” Wright Green of the Dawn Alliance opened his bottle of rum, and gulped down a huge mouthful before glancing at Aoki Yui and continued, “the people of the Aoki family died here in those days, but even then the Demonic Priest went out.”

 Hearing that, Aoki Yui's heart sank.

 “No, the thing brought out by the Demonic Priest from the Great Deities Palace is on the heir of the Li family. In addition, no one had ever heard of anything else being brought out by the Demonic Priest.”

 “Just because no one had heard about it doesn't mean he didn't bring anything out,” said Faul Anderson.

 The people of the Aoki family were speechless, and their mood sank to the lowest point. After eighty years, they came across the ocean again to China and entered the Great Deities Palace palace to complete the mission that their ancestors did not complete.

 However, all they are left with was a dead world with nothing.

 “If it's an ancient demon, then what was it that suppressed it?” Eva Carpe wondered. “What's the point of the Great Deities Palace?”

 Her words silenced the people present, and now they have to redefine the Great Deities Palace.

 According to the proven historical records, the Great Deities Palace had been opened twice. During the first time it opened, Demonic Priest entered the Great Deities Palace. And since then he became Gokudo Path Master. During the second time, Li Wuxiang entered the Great Deities Palace. But he learned of secrets that he didn't want to reveal even if he died.

 Therefore, in the eyes of demon descendants all over the world, the Great Deities Palace and Gokudo Path were equivalent.

 The Great Deities Palace was thought to be a treasure trove. But now, was the Great Deities Palace really such a place?

 Obviously, it was not. The significance of the Great Deities Palace was definitely not that simple.

 “Hypothetically speaking,” said Faul Anderson, holding the bottle in his fingers and swinging it. “Remember when we came in, we saw that bronze door. There were eight keys that could open eight doors to different s.p.a.ces. This s.p.a.ce suppresses the existence of a suspected ancient demon, and the Demonic Priest w.a.n.g Chen might have entered another door, and brought out some other evil creature from there, which is on the Li family's descendant.”

 “What did you want to say.” Li Peiyun frowned.

 “This means that in those two doors, there was each an ancient demon that was suppressed. By induction, the other six doors might be for locking up similar existences,” Aoki Yui continued as she stared at Wright Green.

 “Bingo!” Faul Anderson snapped his fingers. “So my guess is… The Great Deities Palace is a prison. It's not a treasure trove at all. It's used to lock up ancient demons.”

 A mysterious palace that had existed in the distant ancient times and was more ancient than human beings or even dinosaurs. This sounded like a holy land for geeks.

 “Eight ancient demons in custody? If we can get the keys to other doors, we can inherit the legacy of the ancient demons who were trapped there.” Wright Green seemed to be both looking forward to it as well as being disappointed.

 Will this Great Deities Palace tell us the truth of the disappearance of the ancient demon? Aoki Yui thought to herself.

 “Impossible.” Li Peiyun shook his head. “If the Great Deities Palace is a prison, then the existence that built it would be scarier.”

 Li Peiyun meant that since the Great Deities Palace was a prison, the eight ancient demons are at best “criminals” and couldn't represent all the ancient demons. At the very least there was something behind the Great Deities Palace, even more powerful than the eight demons locked here.

 “Before discussing this issue, we need to determine the relations.h.i.+p between the Great Deities Palace and the ancient demon. Let's define the ancient demon first. It existed in the distant past and is the master of the world,” said Gauss Kashub.

 People nodded. This was a hypothesis put forward long ago by demon descendant historians after examining the prehistoric dinosaurs. Ancient demons disappeared in the world for some reason, similar to dinosaurs. But their genes were left behind. After countless years of evolution and reproduction, the ancient demon genes are distributed in all organisms.

 Those with a high proportion of genes will awaken, and those with a lower proportion will never awaken.

 The ancient demons' era was a long long time ago. At that time, there were not even dinosaurs, let alone humans. There were no remains or fossils of them. Therefore, apart from the three known sites, the theories were all hypotheses.

 “There are only two possible situations. The Great Deities Palace belonged to a powerful ancient demon. It killed the other ancient demons in the Great Deities Palace. So the ancient demon disappeared,” Gauss Kashub said. “For the other possibility, the Great Deities Palace did not belong to the ancient demon and the one who made this was what destroyed the ancient demons.”

 “This place does not belong to the ancient demon…” Eva Carpe was stunned.

 “Well, maybe aliens.” Gauss Kashub seemed to be very interested in this topic. “I have read a paper, and some people have hypothesized that in fact, many monsters and G.o.ds in mythological stories are real in the distant ancient times. Not all of them were from the imagination of our ancient ancestors. Those monsters and G.o.ds may also be aliens. For example, our planes, tanks, and submarines are like miracles in the eyes of our ancient ancestors, but our ancestors had limited knowledge and could not understand these things, so they regarded them as miracles.”

 The rugged German with a square face looked excited.

 Li Peiyun asked in a daze, “Why would you read such a paper?”

 Gauss Kashub replied, “When I was in university, I joined the alien research community, which had been studying aliens for generations. At that time, the community changed its research direction, s.h.i.+fting its eyes from the vast cosmos to the myths and legends of all countries in the world, and tried to find the clues of the existence of aliens from the myths.”

 Li Peiyun was speechless.

 “Don't you think what I said makes sense?”

 “Sorry, I didn't go to college.”

 “Such a low education level.” Immediately, Kashub looked at Li Peiyun with a disappointed look, as though he had said, “Such uncultured-ness, you don't deserve to communicate with me.”

 “Although I didn't go to university, I learned history. History can teach me everything,” said Li Peiyun.

 “It can also teach you to study aliens?”

 “No, it taught me that when I meet a r.e.t.a.r.d, I just have to cut him up. For example, those who like to study aliens.”

 No one bothered to continue the trash talk.

 This was now purely a matter of how big-brain the person was at making conjectures from unrelated pieces of evidence. If one was a historian who studied ancient demons, one would definitely have a great interest in this topic and argue with Kashub for three days and three nights. The discovery of the Great Deities Palace would stir up the entire field. Its significance was just like the discovery of dinosaur fossils for the first time.

 But there was no interest in the topic. These people were only concerned about whether they could make profits in the Great Deities Palace. Now, it seemed that they couldn't!

 “Even if we turned this s.p.a.ce upside down, we need to find something.” G.o.d of War gnawed his teeth.

 The ones who were most disappointed were the Ancient G.o.ds Clan and the Aoki family. For the former, the Great Deities Palace was their hope of rising up. For the latter, they had been preparing for many years, and the result is nothing.

 Just then, the woman wearing a golden fur coat pointed to the darkness above the heads of the people and said, “There are still some paintings there.”

 The one who spoke was Protector Eagle from the Great Demons Alliance. Her features were cold and her eyes were sharp as usual. When she stared at someone, that person would feel that she was ready to strike with a knife.

 Aoki Yui raised the strong flashlight and illuminated the direction that Protector Eagle pointed to.

 There were really several murals there. The contents of the murals recorded what happened here in a simple yet abstract style.

 At some point in time, a group of people came here. Looking at the painting, everyone immediately thought of the Demonic Priest w.a.n.g Chen and the Aoki Family.

 The painting style was very simple, but when people see the murals, they could immediately relate to history. A matchstick man led the way in front, followed by an entire group of matchstick men. These match men held a straight line in their hands, and there was a straight line on their waist, which respectively represented their rifle and katana. Simple, yet effective.

 So the guy who painted this was a great abstract artist.

 They came to this place and climbed to the bottom of the pool along the iron chain. The iron chain was locking an unknown creature down here.

 The people of the Aoki family were excited. One of them held up the unknown creature, while the others prostrated on the ground excitedly as if wors.h.i.+ping the creature. The rest of the people, representing the Demonic Priest and the others, quietly watched on as these happened.

 There was no expression and no words, but after seeing the painting, everyone felt as though the painting was foreshadowing that Demonic Priest was about to do something. It was purely a feeling that was imprinted into the murals.

 “The artist is undoubtedly a master,” Gauss Kashub muttered.

 They left the bronze hall with the unnamed creature. In the last painting, the group fell into the wasteland, where everyone died.

 That was it? How did they die? Where did that unknown creatures go?

 The artist was not only a master artist but also an a.s.s who would unregretfully leave cliffhangers.

 “Maybe that thing was really taken out by the Demonic Priest,” Li Peiyun said.

 “If we want to know the truth, we can ask Li Xianyu,” Li Peiyun continued. “He had experienced the memories of Demonic Priest, maybe he knows something.”

 When talking about Li Xianyu, he felt that the emperor of the Great Demons' Alliance looked at himself.

 “He and we are not in the same s.p.a.ce. Once we leave the Great Deities Palace, everything is no longer useful.” Aoki Yui smiled bitterly.

 “No, there is hope.” Li Peiyun once pointed to the mural and said, “Between the first time and the second time that the Demonic Priest entered the Great Deities Palace, there was a period of time between them.”

 As soon as Aoki Yui heard that, her eyes lit up, and immediately understood what Li Peiyun meant. Demonic Priest entered the Great Deities Palace twice when it first opened, but he definitely went out before coming back in.

 This meant that the opening time of the Great Deities Palace was very long. It might be a few days, maybe a few months, but it would remain open.

 Li Peiyun said, “However, it depended on whether they could react the same way as we did. If they stay there and don't come out, we have no way of verifying the truths either. Li Xianyu's IQ is obviously not as good as mine.”

The key was in Baoze's hand. If Baoze's people were to not open the door, the others wouldn't be able to enter. It seemed like communication equipment couldn't be used in the Great Deities Palace as all signals were blocked off.

 “We have to get out of here!” Hu Yan suddenly exclaimed.

 The crowd looked over at him. Hu Yan's slit-wide eyes were wide opened for once. It was clear how agitated he was.

 “Get out of here! Get out of the Great Deities Palace!” Hu Yan continued, looking at the Emperor with a look of fear.

 Others looked at each other, wondering why he was so afraid.

 Li Peiyun knew that Hu Yan was an intelligent strategist, and was not one who would make a baseless claim.

 He was just feeling strange that Hu Yan had not talked at all since entering the Great Deities Palace. Now that Hu Yan spoke up for once, it all seemed normal again.

 “What did you find?” asked Li Peiyun, frowning.