Chapter 81: Shia World
The third phase had begun, meaning Su Xiao was not only being hunted by the undead army but also by many powerful undead beings.
Su Xiao ignored the prompt. He was currently inside the Law-Destroying Shadow ruins. If the undead clan could truly breach the ruins, he would immediately return to Reincarnation Paradise. He had the right to return at any time.
Watching Mawen Hua'erzi's drifting figure, Su Xiao wondered why he had appeared here. A coincidence of fate? Su Xiao thought it unlikely. If he wasn't mistaken, Mawen Hua'erzi was most likely summoned here by Reincarnation Paradise.
There was no need to press for details on such matters. Su Xiao had his own secrets, and Mawen Hua'erzi naturally had things he wasn't at liberty to disclose.
Before long, Mawen Hua'erzi's phantom drifted back.
"This place is indeed different from the inheritance ruins. The inheritance hall has completely collapsed, but deep in the main hall, there are three stone doors. Where they lead is anyone's guess."
Mawen Hua'erzi looked Su Xiao up and down, sensing that Su Xiao had grown much stronger since their last meeting. Earlier, he had only seemed to make a simple inspection of the hall, but in reality, he was checking whether any "insane" traps had been set up. That Law Destroyer friend of his was very skilled at setting traps.
"Three stone doors... that would be the Hall of Annihilation, the Hall of Law, and the Hall of Shadow."
Su Xiao had already obtained the corresponding gems for these three places. Before entering the Law-Destroying Shadow ruins, he knew that to enter here, one not only needed Azure Steel Shadow energy but also had to possess any one of the three gems.
Su Xiao carried the Annihilation Stone and the Law Stone, while Bubu Wang carried the Shadow Stone. Otherwise, neither man nor dog could penetrate the blue mist energy around the ruins' perimeter.
"Hall of Annihilation? Hall of Law? Hall of Shadow? What are these things?"
Mawen Hua'erzi looked at Su Xiao with confusion.
"You don't know about these three places?"
Su Xiao looked back at Mawen Hua'erzi with equal confusion.
"Never even heard of them."
Mawen Hua'erzi pondered for a moment before realizing what was going on.
"This should be a structure built here by Ax. In the traditional sense of inheritance ruins, these three buildings don't exist. Are you planning to enter those three stone doors?"
"Of course."
"I advise you to forget it. Ax's thinking... is somewhat different from other Law-Destroying Shadows. There might be things he left behind behind those three stone doors, but it will also be very dangerous."
Mawen Hua'erzi glanced around at the sculptures in the hall. Each one stirred a memory within him.
"Opening those three stone doors means you must be prepared to die."
Mawen Hua'erzi waved his hand, the meaning clear: 'Don't bother me. I'm reminiscing about the past.'
Obviously, Mawen Hua'erzi didn't want to directly reveal the secrets of the Law-Destroying Shadow to Su Xiao. There were some things he didn't want to mention again. The former glory was no more; he was now just a wisp of lingering consciousness.
Bubu Wang came to stand before Mawen Hua'erzi. Clearly, this fool was curious about Mawen Hua'erzi, as this was their first meeting.
Bubu Wang sat on the ground, looking up at Mawen Hua'erzi as if observing some rare creature. Noticing Bubu Wang, Mawen Hua'erzi smiled.
According to the information Mawen Hua'erzi provided, there was no danger in this main hall, provided Su Xiao didn't enter those three stone doors.
Su Xiao walked through the large array of sculptures, slowly making his way to the depths of the hall. The ground there was covered in rubble, and at the very back was a stone wall.
Above the stone wall were over a dozen murals. Below these murals were three stone doors.
The three stone doors were neatly arranged, each with a groove in the center. These three grooves were clearly meant for embedding gems.
Time was plentiful now. Su Xiao looked at the murals above the stone doors. Below the murals were large swaths of carved text. Su Xiao had never seen this script before, yet somehow he could understand what these words described.
'My name is Ax, having borne the burden of Law Annihilation for 547 solar cycles (1 solar cycle ≈ 1.6 years). The fluctuations of the elements...'
Through the text below the murals and the content of the murals themselves, Su Xiao quickly learned the secrets of Law Destroyer Ax, the ancient undead clan, the undead clan, and the human dynasty.
According to Ax's description, he was drawn here by elemental fluctuations. Because the Shia World was not a planet within the void, Ax discovered upon arrival that returning to the void was somewhat difficult. It wasn't that Ax's spatial technology was poor, but rather because he was too powerful.
If the Shia World were likened to a balloon, then Ax was a sharp blade. When he arrived in this world, he directly pierced it. If he left recklessly, the world's structure would collapse. He first needed to let the world adapt to him before he could leave in a gentle manner.
Upon discovering this, Ax didn't immediately solve the world's elemental system problems. Instead, he first learned about the world's situation.
If the Shia World were compared to a game, then the strongest boss in this game, Reid, was level 50. As for Ax, who had descended here, he was at least level 9000. A single sneeze from him could wipe out a large number of Reids.
When Ax first entered this world, he didn't even dare to move recklessly, as that would cause large-scale spatial collapse, triggering a series of natural disasters.
The location where Ax descended was precisely where the Law-Destroying Shadow ruins now stood. He released puppet mechanisms. In Ax's view, these puppet mechanisms were only average, but to Reid, they were invincible existences.
Ax released a total of 20 puppet mechanisms and quickly understood the current state of this world.
Originally, the Shia World had three races: the undead clan, humans, and the Batra clan. Among the three, the Batra clan discovered Ax first. A few years later, Ax became the god of the Batra clan. This wasn't intentional on Ax's part; the Batra clan unilaterally decided that Ax was their god.
The Batra clan was a primitive race, so they had always been enslaved by the undead clan. They were the lowest class of laborers.
Slaves weren't limited to the Batra clan. When Ax descended, humans were also slaves—slaves of the undead clan, or more precisely, slaves of the ancient undead clan. The ancient undead clan had some connection to the current undead clan, but after a certain incident, the connection between the two was essentially severed.
The ancient undead clan were the overlords of the Shia World. The Batra clan were their laborers, and humans were their farmers. This was precisely why the agricultural technology of the Saint Sordin Kingdom was so advanced. Their ancestors were all farmers; how could their farming techniques not be developed?
One day, Ax grew annoyed with the Batra clan. But since they worshipped him as a god, he couldn't very well exterminate them. So, Ax directly teleported the Batra clan away, sending them to a remote but resource-rich planet within the void.
Most of the Batra clan escaped their slave status, while the remaining small portion disappeared into the river of time.