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Chapter 823: Changes in the Holy Continent, Fengdu Emperor's Abyss

Fei Sheng and Su Shiyi were chatting happily over there.

Of course, it was Fei Sheng who was talking and Su Shiyi who was listening - although he didn't understand much, it did not stop the young man from being curious about the world he had never seen or heard of.

On the other side, the terrifying and ferocious ghost knelt on the ground and reported the fat Taoist's confession to Yu Chen.

The fat Taoist is now over a thousand years old, and with his Taoism at the Tongtian realm, he is considered a backbone of the Haotian Holy Land.

His current position is called "Cage Master", and those steel pyramids are called Cage Towers.

There are thousands of such cage towers on Shengzhou Island, and there are more than 100,000 people in each cage tower.

——These people are called captive birds.

All of them are descendants of the Qi cultivators and mortals who once lived on the Holy Island.

As for why the Holy Island has become like this, it has to start with a "transformation" three hundred years ago.

——The fat Taoist priest was not very skilled in Taoism, but he lived long enough to almost witness the bloody revolution more than three hundred years ago.

Three hundred years ago, there were three holy masters in the Haotian Holy Land.

Unlike the holy land on the Eastern Wilderness, the position of the Holy Lord in the holy land on the Eastern Wilderness is actually just the manager of the holy land, and most of their Taoism are at the Tongtian realm - they have enormous power, but not enough strength to suppress the entire holy land.

The highest power and the strongest military force are separated and supervise and restrain each other, ensuring that at any time, the vast holy land will not experience terrible turmoil due to the will of a certain individual.

This is one of the reasons why many holy places in the Eastern Wilderness have stood for thousands of years - they have power that surpasses all other living beings and will not be attacked by external threats, and they also have a relatively superior system, so there will be no major unrest and no internal troubles.

But the Haotian Holy Land is different. The three holy masters of the Haotian Holy Land are the three most powerful beings in the entire holy land.

Each of them is a terrifying and powerful being in the Dao Fruit Realm.

The three holy masters restrain and supervise each other, which also allows the Haotian Holy Land to remain prosperous and unshakable.

In addition, although the Haotian Holy Land is called a holy land, in fact, it should be regarded as a huge religious force.

Although there are gaps between the three holy masters, they share a common belief - the Tomb Master.

In the ancient times, the Haotian Holy Land was just an insignificant force, one that couldn't even be named.

But one day, an ancient, powerful and terrifying being came and granted the Haotian lineage infinite power and tremendous fortune, and also gave them the job of guarding a huge tomb.

- Of course, the fat Taoist didn’t know where the so-called “big tomb” was, nor what terrible things were contained in it, but the only thing that was certain was that in that extremely turbulent era, it was that existence that saved the precarious Haotian lineage and gave them the power and qualifications to survive in troubled times.

From then on, the Haotian lineage called themselves gravekeepers, guarding the tomb left by that existence from generation to generation.

But one thing that will never change about human beings is that they are always changing.

As time goes by, everything changes.

For example, the Third Holy Lord, one of the three holy masters who have existed since ancient times, suddenly launched a bloody civil war one day three hundred years ago.

Without warning.

No reason.

The fat Taoist remembered it very clearly. On that day, the sky was dyed blood red, and the earth was piled up into endless mountains of corpses.

The original compatriots killed each other.

The change lasted for a hundred days, and in the end the two saints and their cronies were suppressed, and their forces were purged.

Then, the victorious Holy Lord took control of the entire Haotian Holy Land.

Originally, this bloody internal strife among the top leaders should not have affected the many mortals on the Holy Island.

——Everyone thought so at the beginning.

But they were wrong.

Because as the victorious Holy Lord arrived in the Holy Continent, a terrifying change immediately began.

At the first moment, all the cultivation sects, mortal kingdoms, inherited families... on Shengzhou Island were all banned - on the entire Shengzhou Island, no force other than the Haotian Holy Land was allowed to exist.

Then, all the mortals and Qi cultivators were uniformly recruited by the Haotian Holy Land.

Then, the furnace workshop of Haotian Holy Land was expanded and operated day and night, and steel behemoths called "cage towers" rose from the ground. After the steel cage towers were built, all mortals and Qi cultivators were forced to be incorporated into the cage towers and lost their freedom.

During this process, countless people rose up in resistance.

What greeted them was bloody suppression and brutal massacre.

This suppression was even more brutal than the one during the revolution. As the suppression ended, the population of the entire Shengzhou Island shrank by 30%.

During those years, the entire Holy Continent was dyed blood red.

The rest of the people either pretended to be respectful but were not convinced at heart and planned rebellion, or obeyed reluctantly and lived in a daze.

In short, no one dared to openly resist.

Finally, the entire Haotian Holy Land and Shengzhou Island came to a halt in all development and began to engage in extortionate mining.

Within ten years, all the spiritual mines on Shengzhou Island were mined out.

But it's not over yet.

Haotian Holy Land began to attack the mineral veins in the starry sky, sending out countless fleets, like locusts, leaving everything barren wherever they passed. And the natural treasures and spiritual ores mined were sent to the steel pyramid called "Cage Tower", where the captured bird was constantly purified and processed day and night, and finally sent to Haotian Holy Land.

——These caged birds have no freedom at all.

They sleep in a "compartment" that can only accommodate one person, eat the coarsest military rations, and are forced to mate and give birth to children of both sexes of appropriate age. In order to cut off the inheritance, after giving birth, the offspring of the captive birds will be taken away and raised by the other captive birds in the cage tower, and they will never be able to see their parents in their entire lives.

——This is the case with Su Shiyi. The grandfather he mentioned has no blood relationship with him at all. He was just assigned to be raised by his grandfather when he was born.

All captive birds will be executed immediately once they lose their ability to work.

In the cage tower, people are no longer people, but just tools, tools used to purify and refine spiritual ore.

At the beginning, the rebellious sentiments of the captive birds were extremely serious. Countless people wanted to break out of their cages and regain their freedom, and countless rebellions broke out.

But as time passed, those ancestors died of fatigue and oppression, with hatred in their hearts.

The newly born captive birds don’t even know what the outside world is like.

Only a very small number would be influenced by the ancient rumors and yearn for the outside world.

Most of the captive birds, however, live their entire lives in a daze - they start working from a young age, get married when they are of appropriate age, give birth to children, continue to work, and finally are destroyed when they are old.

Many people never get out of that steel cage in their entire lives.

In addition, because the highest efficiency is required and the prisoner birds must not resist, all the prisoner birds will practice, but their cultivation is controlled at the level of Kaihai and Lingxiang, which can both ensure their work efficiency and easily suppress them when they resist.

Besides, it's not just poor mortals who are affected.

The disciples and elders under the Holy Lord also began to become distorted under this repetitive repression and perverted environment.

Fat Taoist is a good example of this.

Three hundred years ago, he was just an ordinary disciple of the holy land. He was not kind, but he was not full of evil either. He would occasionally travel outside, slay demons and monsters, and save the lives of mortals.

But after being put into the cage tower, although they don't have to work as hard as ordinary people, it is still extremely boring.

Over a long period of time, his psychology gradually became distorted and perverted.

Began to take pleasure in torturing mortals.

It was as if in this stagnant cage, only the light in the eyes of mortals who were trying to escape could arouse a ripple in the fat Taoist's heart.

At first, you will feel guilty.

But as time went by, his heart gradually became as hard as stone.

Deep down, he did not consider Su Shiyi and others as human beings.

It was not until this "hunt" that he became the prey, and his twisted and morbid life came to an end.

The report is completed.

The ghost's expression suddenly became angry, and then a little frightened.

Yu Chen glanced at him and told him to speak if he had anything to say.

The ghost messenger just opened his mouth and told everything.

It turns out that during the bloody change three hundred years ago, the two failed saints did not die.

Instead, they were imprisoned in the far east of Shengzhou Island and suppressed under a formation. Their power was continuously extracted day and night to maintain the operation of the entire Shengzhou Island, which had been transformed into a steel structure.

The place where the two saints were suppressed was given a name by the victorious saint.

——Emperor Yuan of Fengdu.

It seems to mean that the word "Fengdu" will be suppressed forever.

This made the ghost in the underworld who was judging the fat Taoist priest furious, and he added some extra ingredients to the fat Taoist priest's punishment.

Yu Chen couldn't help but smile after hearing this.

——What’s the difference between this kid cursing others behind their backs when he can’t beat them?
He sent the ghost away, closed the gates of hell, found Fei Sheng, and shared the information with him.

Fei Sheng was of course confused, wondering how Yu Chen suddenly knew so much information.

But he was used to it and didn't ask any more questions.

But after hearing Yu Chen's words, he raised his eyebrows and said, "So what we have to do now is to go to Fengduyuan and rescue those two unlucky saints?"

After a pause, he continued, "But the question is, if those two Saint Lords were also at the Dao Fruit level, why did they lose when they were fighting two against one?"

After hearing this, Yu Chen shook his head.

Although the fat Taoist was in charge of a cage tower, his status in the Haotian Holy Land was not high. Even if he had experienced it personally, he did not know what had happened during the horrific change.

"And... it's also very strange..." Fei Sheng frowned, "-- According to this statement, thousands of cage towers, tens of millions of workers, day and night to purify and refine the spirit baht, for more than two hundred years in a row - so many spirit baht, even if a thousand Haotian Holy Lands daily consumption can not use up, what on earth do they want to do?"

"Perhaps the two failed Saints will know something?"

Yu Chen shook his head and looked towards the east.
"——Let's go. After we free the two failed Saints, it will be time for the decisive battle."

(End of this chapter)