Chapter 179
Within the azure light, Alice and the other two abruptly vanished into thin air.
Adam nearly exposed his full strength to perish together with the Dao platform. However, he suddenly sensed that this azure light harbored no danger and carried no malice.
Very quickly, the light gradually dissipated, everything returned to absolute tranquility.
Adam’s face was filled with confusion. Just as he prepared to land, the spiritual soul of an old man dressed in a thin azure robe slowly materialized on the Dao platform.
Adam immediately treated him as a deadly foe, cold sweat breaking out on his back.
This old man looked exactly the same as the one he had just killed.
"Little friend, there is no need to be nervous. I am him, yet I am also not him!" The soul smiled warmly, his voice exceedingly gentle.
Inexplicably, Adam’s taut nerves instantly relaxed, the divine ability in his hand faded.
This old man gave off an incredibly soothing feeling, he was the complete polar opposite of the human-skin old man who had reeked of an evil aura.
"And Senior is...?" Adam asked softly.
The old man didn’t reply immediately, he slowly raised his head and looked at the cultivators nailed to the ceiling of the tomb, his aged eyes overflowed with compassion and deep remorse.
"It is all my fault... It is all my fault!" His voice was choked with sobs and intense self-reproach.
Although Adam was filled with questions, he didn’t rashly speak again, even though the old man before him was but a wisp of a soul, this ancient tomb was brimming with bizarre occurrences. It was better to play it safe.
"Thank you, little friend. You have finally helped me eradicate my evil thoughts." The old man took a deep breath and shifted his gaze back to Adam.
"Senior’s evil thoughts? Was it Senior who pulled me into the formation? And who exactly is Senior? What on earth is going on here?" Adam fired off four questions in a single breath, ever since he entered this tomb, a mountain of mysteries had plagued him.
"Have a seat, I will slowly explain everything." The old man raised his hand, and azure light condensed into a stool behind Adam.
The old man, however, remained standing. "My name is Liber, you may also know me as the Book Saint."
The words were utterly world-shaking. Adam, whose rear had just been about to touch the stool, sprang right back up.
The person standing in front of me is a Saint?!
"Senior is the Book Saint?!" Adam cried out in shock, although he had heard the title, he had never seen a portrait of the man, the Silver Willow dynasty was a remote backwater after all.
"Correct. More accurately, I am merely a wisp of a soul left behind to oversee this grand formation." The old man nodded slowly.
"After quelling a demonic uprising, I suffered critical injuries. However, the most fatal blow was that the Demon Race ambushed me in the aftermath and planted a Demon Seed inside me!"
Adam’s heart jolted, he hadn’t expected the Demon Race to have had a hand in this.
A Demon Seed was an extremely vile curse unique to the Demon Race.
The malice within the heart of anyone implanted with it would multiply infinitely, ultimately birthing a new, malevolent soul that would usurp the original one.
They would become an out-and-out demon.
"I was heavily wounded, not even retaining a tenth of my original strength. It was exceedingly difficult to suppress the Demon Seed, so my only option was to violently extract it from my body!"
"However, I couldn’t kill it either, because it was me."
"The moment I killed it, it would simply be reborn from the depths of my own heart!"
"Therefore, I sealed it in this place and constructed a simple tomb to deceive the public eye. I needed an excuse to vanish so I could recuperate in peace, so I declared to the world that I had succumbed to my wounds."
The old man’s voice was very soft, but Adam could hear the profound agony within it, he seemed to deeply regret this decision.
"But what I never anticipated was that a village would be built near this remote location, and due to the Heaven and Earth Upheaval, the ancient tomb was unearthed and exposed to the world!"
"An entire village of innocent people... I am guilty! I am a sinner!"
Adam remained silent.
"Later, the evil thoughts revived. I intended to continue suppressing them, but for some inexplicable reason, they were able to absorb my power, left with no choice, I hid within the formation core."
"Then cultivators discovered the ancient tomb. I wanted to warn them, but I was trapped in the core! If I stepped out, that evil thought would devour me instantly!"
"Fortunately, there was an outer restriction preventing entry!"
"However, I underestimated them, they shattered the restriction, I could not allow my evil thoughts to escape, so I activated the grand formation!"
"But it was too late, they had all rushed in."
"There were simply too many people, my remaining strength was insufficient to teleport everyone out!"
"I could only watch helplessly as they were slaughtered and nailed to the ceiling!"
The old man sighed heavily, he never expected things to escalate to this point.
"This matter is not Senior’s fault, Senior need not blame yourself!" Adam exhaled a heavy breath, he hadn’t expected this to be the truth.
"No, I am a sinner. I should have been more careful and never allowed those evil thoughts to ambush me. After all these years, I am still just as careless!" A hint of anger flashed in the old man’s eyes, furious self-reproach.
"However, fortunately, I discovered you on the outside." A glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.
"You were incessantly hauling away my book collection, which drew my gaze, although I could not see through your cultivation realm, I knew you were concealing your true strength!"
"To be able to manipulate that many storage bags simultaneously, and while everyone else was paralyzed by fear, your expression remained completely casual, I deduced that your strength must be exceptionally high."
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