Chapter 1771: Cause and Effect! The Truth Revealed
Igor clutched his head, trembling. "Now the three of us can't even scrape together a single horn! We can't let him chop anymore!"
Lai Yin chimed in: (๑¯ิٹ¯ิ) "Exactly, exactly! What else can you even do?"
Igor's face darkened: (̿▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿̿)̄ "Al—although we can't find the Creation Saint Beast's trail, we can be sure it's still near Planet Lan Xing!"
"After all, it's been over three thousand years, and it hasn't moved much. It's been right here creating Ling Xus!"
"If we search slowly, we'll find it eventually!"
Carl was full of disgust: (zhe yi zhe ꐦ) "Damn it! If it weren't for the previous Medium being killed by Jiang Fan, how would the Creation Saint Beast have slipped out of control? Left here, unable to be pulled back?"
At the mention of that name, every Bose present stiffened.
Lai Yin said weakly: (′◔﹏◔`) "Lord Carl, it's better not to speak that name directly. If it senses us..."
Carl's expression froze, then he sneered: "What's there to fear? How many years has he been missing? He's probably dead long ago! It's only those old fossils who still hold their fear!"
"Even if he jumps out again, what then? There's no place left for that existence under the starry sky!"
Though he said that, Carl unconsciously replaced Jiang Fan's name with "that existence."
For someone like him, dying was truly hard.
Igor sighed: "If the previous Medium hadn't been killed by him, the Creation Beast wouldn't have gone berserk and stayed on Planet Lan Xing, continuing to create Ling Xus."
"Maybe the Holy Star wouldn't have gotten the idea to violate the Ten Thousand Races Accord and secretly develop Planet Lan Xing's Star Ruins."
Over three thousand years ago, when the Ancient Holy Star first attempted to develop Planet Lan Xing's Star Ruins, they used the Medium to bring the Creation Saint Beast to do the work.
Otherwise, so many Ling Xus couldn't have appeared out of nowhere on Planet Lan Xing.
They thought everything was going smoothly, but then a monster like Jiang Fan popped up.
The Star Ruins development failed, the Ten Thousand Races Accord was born, and before leaving, the Ancient Holy Star sealed all Ling Xu spiritual energy with the Spirit-Sealing Curse Array.
But because the Medium died, the Creation Beast went out of control—they couldn't take it away! So it was left here.
Over the next thousand years, the ungoverned Creation Beast kept creating Ling Xus for fun.
Thus came the second secret attempt to develop Planet Lan Xing's Star Ruins, violating the Ten Thousand Races Accord.
Because in that millennium, the Creation Beast had churned out quite a few more Ling Xus, enough for the Holy Star's use.
But they were repelled by Emperor Qin, Xiao Di, and the others—another failure.
Since no new Medium had been born, the Creation Beast still couldn't be taken away. They left another Spirit-Sealing Curse Array and withdrew.
Then another thousand years passed. The Ancient Holy Star decided the Creation Beast had produced enough Ling Xus again, so they launched the third Planet Lan Xing development project.
Still done in secret, of course.
But dammit, another one popped up: Ji Yu Yu Shen, who repelled the Ancient Holy Star again. The Creation Beast remained, still building Ling Xus.
Another thousand years later, Planet Lan Xing entered the current era.
This time, unlike the past, a new Medium was born among the Bose Clan: Jiang Jing.
She was enough to complete a contract with the Creation Beast, regain control of this lost Creation Saint Beast on Planet Lan Xing, and pull it back.
Along the way, they could also secretly develop Planet Lan Xing's Star Ruins.
But that touched on factional struggles within the Bose Clan. Jiang Jing didn't belong to the Holy Star faction.
If they let her contract the Creation Beast back, wouldn't it become theirs?
This Creation Beast originally belonged to the Holy Star—why should another faction take it back?
To the Bose Clan, the Creation Saint Beast was an extremely precious resource.
The Holy Star didn't want to hand it over.
Even letting the Creation Beast stay on Planet Lan Xing was better than letting another faction contract it.
So back during the Spirit Calamity, the group of Bose bodies that came to Planet Lan Xing had an internal conflict.
The Holy Star's people killed everyone who brought Jiang Jing there. The battle was fierce. The Medium was lost in the incident, and many Bose bodies died.
Igor had participated back then, which was why he knew so clearly.
They thought the Medium was lost forever, but who knew it had been hidden in the Toy House all these years, falling into Hua Xia's hands.
Upon learning this, Igor immediately reported it. After all, if they could control the Medium and re-contract the Creation Beast...
The Holy Star would regain that power! The Medium would become the Holy Star's Medium.
The Holy Star's higher-ups were naturally delighted. So, while ensuring no slips, they sent Carl over.
His mission: secure the Medium, help the Holy Star regain control of the Creation Beast, and complete the Star Ruins development as soon as possible.
Who knew that as soon as he arrived, four Star Breakers taught him a lesson?
Sending a Planet Destroyer-level entity here was impossible now—any more would blow their cover.
Carl said bitterly: (ꐦ͡°益͡°) "You still have the nerve to bring that up? If that existence hadn't killed the previous Medium, how would the Holy Star have lost control of the Creation Saint Beast?"
"What a pain! We can't snatch the Medium head-on for now. We have to take it slowly. Let it go for now."
"The World Purification Plan is underway—eliminate the inferior, preserve the superior. When the spirit beasts have finished their rampage on Planet Lan Xing and cleared out the trash, it'll be time for us to harvest. Time to reap our profits!"
"Once the Shi Jue arrive, we won't have manpower issues. You find the Creation Beast's location and trail. We can't let the Medium get to the Creation Saint Beast without finding it."
Gangstan Ding shrank his neck: (˘•益•˘) "But... those people are blocking our door. How do we go out and search?"
Carl slammed the table: (／‵口′)／︵┻━┻ "They can't block it forever! Figure it out yourselves! Find the Creation Beast's trail as soon as possible!"
Then he licked his lips, eyes full of excitement.
"The more challenging the job, the more I like it! It's been ages since I've encountered such a tough civilization to crack!"
"Interesting! Humans are far too interesting!"
"All Ling Xus are open now. If this doesn't work, there won't be another chance. You all know the consequences of failure."
"Don't forget—none of us exist anymore!"
Igor and the others all shuddered, their expressions turning solemn as they nodded: "Yes!"
...
Xiao Chuihuo and the others were blocking the Beacon Star Palace, and Carl's group made no extra moves. Both sides were locked in a standoff.
But the spirit calamity on Planet Lan Xing didn't stop. It only grew fiercer.
Day after day passed. Every moonlit night, the calamity surged even more violently.
These spirit beasts, trapped in Ling Xus for over a thousand years, had survived to this day only as the dominant existences within their domains.
Daotian-level beasts, once rare, were no longer so uncommon.
Not to mention Star Glory and Diamond beasts.
The world of Planet Lan Xing held an irresistible attraction for spirit beasts.
Not only because the current external spiritual energy concentration was far higher than inside the Ling Xus, but also because of the Blue Moon hanging in the sky.
All creatures bathed in moonlight had a chance to evolve.
And the spirit beasts weren't just charging in chaos. They had their own social structures and hierarchies.
Among them were some exceptionally intelligent ones, like Pang Ju and Xiong Er.
There were also beasts at the Daotian Ten Stars peak, like the Howling Moon Wolf King.
Streams of spirit beasts surged out of each Ling Xu, colliding, and gradually forming massive beast groups.
The leaders were naturally the top-tier, ceiling-level beasts like the Howling Moon Wolf King.
Just like Leviathan, who had built his own beast group near the Fish Country, making their disaster relatively lighter.
Given enough time, under the Blue Moon's light, breaking through their bottlenecks to become Transcendent beasts was not impossible.
Now, on every continental plate, enormous spirit beasts roamed, forming powerful beast groups that carved up the land.
The situation in the oceans was even more worrying. The ocean was vast, covering 71% of Planet Lan Xing's total area.
With the global spirit calamity erupting, who knew how many monsters had emerged from the Ling Xus to claim the seas? The situation was even worse than on land.
At least no one lived on the sea.
In just a few days, Planet Lan Xing seemed to have returned to the primordial era. The brilliance and order of human civilization were trampled to pieces beneath the hooves of billions of beasts.
On the Hua Xia front, thanks to the Tiancong Green Vine, the Beast Martial Legion, Pupil Race Mercenaries, Xing Cheng, and the revived Great Wall Sky-Spanning Barrier—combined with various measures—they barely managed to complete the evacuation of urban populations amid the calamity's nationwide warfare.
As for the cities that couldn't hold, they were drowned under the beasts' hooves. The exact casualty count was impossible to tally.
Only the number of survivors could be counted.
After a full seven days, the first wave of the global spirit calamity finally passed.
Though no one wanted to admit it, spirit beasts had essentially become the masters of this planet.
During those days, the beasts also finished dividing territory and groups.
The reason they gradually calmed down was simple: the humans who hadn't sought shelter in time had mostly been eaten.
Those who survived were the ones who had hidden in Ling Xus, shelters, or on the Moon.
Now, looking around, smoke billowed everywhere, beast roars echoed through the air, and once-prosperous cities had become ruins.
The Holy Star's World Purification Plan had edited the entire map of Planet Lan Xing.
In the past, looking down from space at night, you could faintly see the scattered lights of cities on the continental shelves.
But now, when you looked, everything was pitch black.
These seven days of global calamity would later be called the Darkest 168 Hours in human history.
But Hua Xia, with its many methods, managed to hold a few major cities.
After Xing Cheng and the others finished supporting all the cities they could, on the seventh day of the calamity...
They finally led the team to Jiang Cheng.
The people there had not yet been evacuated, and Jiang Cheng was the last city they would go to.
Why last?
Because Jiangnan was guarding it, so they weren't worried about problems.