Dragon's Origin

“Why do you care so much about people and events from four or five hundred years ago?” The old Daoist was puzzled by Wang Sheng's concern for the life and death of someone from so long ago. “Whether they lived or died, does it really make a difference? Do you think someone can really live for hundreds of years?”

The old Daoist's words left Wang Sheng in a daze. Indeed, it was something that happened four or five hundred years ago. Does it matter whether she lived or died back then? Would it help the outcome in any way?

“I just want to know the truth.” Helpless, Wang Sheng gave himself a reason.

“What good would knowing do?” The old Daoist snorted. “Do you think you can avenge her?”

“Maybe I can!” Wang Sheng jokingly replied, following the old Daoist's lead, but his heart was churning.

If the girl in his dreams had really been killed back then, perhaps Wang Sheng would really avenge her. But Wang Sheng kept these words to himself, not revealing them to anyone, not even the old Daoist in front of him.

“What if she didn't die back then?” The old Daoist looked at Wang Sheng with a playful gaze.

“Then she would definitely avenge herself, and I wouldn't need to interfere.” Wang Sheng replied seriously.

“Alright, she didn't die back then.” Lingxu Old Daoist stopped being mysterious and revealed the answer Wang Sheng wanted to know.

“What happened then?” Wang Sheng asked, unwilling to give up. Since the girl in his dreams didn't die, why was there no record of her afterward?

“Don't you know the legend of the seal?” The old Daoist asked, looking at Wang Sheng.

“She was sealed.” The old Daoist said. “And then she never appeared again.”

“That's it?” Wang Sheng was even more uncomfortable hearing this result and asked anxiously.

“That's it!” The old Daoist nodded heavily. “Or what else do you want?”

Wang Sheng was speechless. She was sealed, and then never appeared again. The result was almost predetermined. Could she have survived without food or drink for hundreds of years?

“Why?” Wang Sheng asked after pondering for a while. “Why did the five great families and the royal family attack the Lin family? Just because the Lin family produced an unparalleled expert?”

“What else could it be?” The old Daoist also smiled wryly. “If you were the head of one of the five great families, and suddenly an unmatched expert appeared, someone even all the five families together might not be able to defeat, someone who could easily destroy your family, wouldn't you kill him to be able to sleep at night?”

“This, isn't this too unreasonable?” Wang Sheng suddenly didn't know what to say, and his impression of the five great families dropped a lot. Just after saying this, Wang Sheng suddenly seemed to remember something and asked back, “That's not right! Old Daoist, you are also considered an unparalleled expert, why haven't I seen the five great families cause trouble for your Old Lord Temple?”

The Lin family was able to occupy a territory of thousands of miles in those years, so there were obviously many experts, at least a large force of the level of the Old Lord Temple, right? They both had unparalleled experts, so why was the Old Lord Temple okay?

“Me, worthy of being called an unparalleled expert?” Lingxu Old Daoist gave a self-deprecating smile, which was a reluctant answer to Wang Sheng's question. “First of all, the five great families may not know how powerful I am. Secondly, the Lin family may have done something to deserve it. In short, it must be a combination of factors that led to the result. If you were the head of one of the five great families, would you recklessly destroy them just because you were afraid of an expert? Do you know what price you would have to pay?”

The old Daoist's answer made Wang Sheng sure of a few things. The first was that the old Daoist did not deny that he was an unparalleled expert. Although he asked back with self-deprecation, he did not deny it after all. Second, the Lin family's destruction was probably really caused by something.

As the old Daoist said, without a reason to take action, who would be willing to bet their family and their own fate to be an enemy of an unparalleled expert? To make the five great families and the royal family join forces, and even a few hidden sects take action, the Lin family's actions at that time must have forced so many forces to join forces.

“The Lin family's unparalleled expert devoted herself to cultivation and did not care about the family's worldly affairs.” Seeing Wang Sheng pondering, the old Daoist didn't let Wang Sheng think for long and slowly began to explain, “She would only take action to help the family through difficulties when it was absolutely necessary.”

“If that were the case, it wouldn't be impossible for everyone to live in peace.” The old Daoist sighed and said, “Unfortunately, people are so dissatisfied. Within the Lin family at that time, because they had her support, some people developed some inappropriate thoughts and did some things they shouldn't have done.”

Okay, having said this, Wang Sheng could completely imagine what happened. The Lin family expanded internally, and some people acted like foxes displaying the tiger's might, using the dream girl's prestige to start doing things like bullying men and women and seizing territory, finally arousing public anger.

Putting Wang Sheng on the side of the five great families, after enduring to a certain extent, he would definitely not endure it anymore. They were all cultivators, so it would be better to perish together. If you dare to pull the emperor off his horse, let alone a Lin family.

The dream girl was really pitiful. Perhaps she didn't want this, and it wasn't her original intention, but she was implicated by the family and ended up being besieged and sealed.

“What price did they pay?” Knowing the approximate cause and effect, Wang Sheng's heart calmed down.

“Originally there were not five great families, but ten great families. Not counting the royal family, two families were destroyed, and three families were severely damaged and never recovered.” The old Daoist didn't think it was necessary to hide this and quickly replied, “They are the current Xia family, Feng family, and Gan family. These three families are still resentful. They all put in a lot of effort at the time, but only achieved the five great families, and their three families were used as stepping stones.”

“Thirteen sects were destroyed, and seven were destroyed. The remaining six have completely become hidden sects.” Speaking of the achievements of that unparalleled expert, even someone like the old Daoist had a look of admiration on his face. “Adding up all parties, more than 2,000 experts above the sixth level died. After the battle, hundreds of top experts from all sides faced the exhausted Lin family experts, but no one dared to step forward.”

“In the end, all parties had no choice but to make a sealing formation to seal the Lin family's expert.” The old Daoist closed his eyes, as if he was reminiscing the wonderfulness of that battle of wind and clouds. “Dozens of large and small formations were sealed. Hundreds of formations were arranged around it, completely sealing the entire Thousand Absolute Land.”

After saying these words, the old Daoist slowly recovered from his reminiscence. Looking at Wang Sheng, he slowly asked, “Now, do you know how the Thousand Absolute Land came to be?”