Against The Heavens

"Two million years huh? So that"s how long it"s been since we died, not as long as I expected honestly."

This was the first time the two of them actually got any information on how long it had been since they died. Looking at the changes that had taken place since they were alive, Li Yang had expected it to be around a hundred million years or so, maybe even more, two million years was a rather short time, especially considering the number of changes. Zhao Feng gave a light nod of his head, leaning further back against the couch while shrugging his shoulders.

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"Yup, my guess is that something happened in those two million years that greatly sped up the changes, but I"ve yet to discover any sort of clue as to just what this something is. Well, not really any point in wasting time on something we know nothing about right now, better to focus on the present. And by the present I mean, what sort of chaos are the two of you planning on causing now? And whatever it is, I want in."

With how long the lifespan of strong cultivators was, there could easily be tens of millions of years where almost nothing changed about cultivation, so it was a bit strange for things to change so greatly in just two million years. Li Yang temporarily ignored the excited Zhao Feng, placing his hand on his dantian.

"Well, first of all, I got to take care of something quickly."

He pulled out Jinwu and Shenlong, Fang Ying pulling Huanglong out of her own dantian. Li Yang had already handed over Huanglong shortly after they reunited, Fang Ying had carried her ever since and taken care of her. Looking at the three comatose Divine Beasts that suddenly appeared in front of him, Zhao Feng couldn"t help but look greatly shocked.

"...Just where the h.e.l.l did you get those?"

Fang Ying pulled out the hydra blood and the life elemental that she had acquired in the previous fight, giving the blood to Huanglong while giving the elemental to Langshen. The blood didn"t share an element with Huanglong, but the strong lifeforce in it would still be very useful to her, the same was true for the elemental that she fed to Langshen, it would help greatly improve his own lifeforce and recovery speed once he fully digested it. While she was doing so, Li Yang was doing the same to Jinwu and Shenlong, handing them the fire and lightning element parts respectively while also responding to Zhao Feng.

"These? The two dragons, Shelong and Huanglong, I actually got from the hidden realm you set up, they were born when the remnant energy from me and Ying"er mixed with the remnant energy in the dragon skeletons. As for this fellow, Jinwu, I got him in the Cloud Wilderness."

Li Yang gave a more in-depth explanation of how he encountered them while making sure that the comatose beasts safely absorbed the blood and elementals. Just as he suspected, they didn"t wake up after absorbing the blood and elementals, but at least their conditions stabilized greatly, thanks to the vast energy, they were a large step closer to waking up. After hearing the full story behind Jinwu, Zhao Feng"s air once again became serious.

"You"re saying that his mother is Yangwu and that his father is probably Bing Di? And that not only are the two of them dead, but even Zhulong has also fallen?"

Li Yang had overheard the Golden Crow and the Torch Dragon as they spoke, this was how he knew their names as well as the name of Bing Di. He didn"t know if this Bing Di was Jingwu"s father, but why else would his mother fight so desperately to protect the corpse of Bing Di? Zhao Feng tapped the table in front of him with his fingers for a short moment before looking at Li Yang with a serious gaze and giving him a sincere warning.

"Brother Yang, whatever you do, do not let this information reach anyone else from the Demon Race. Also, never tell anyone else about Jinwu"s origins, the fewer people know about it the better."

Li Yang and Fang Ying"s eyebrows rose once more as they stored their now stabilized Divine Beasts back into their dantians, only Langshen remaining in the room, his head still resting on Fang Ying"s lap as he worked on digesting the life elemental. Li Yang leaned back against the couch again, a gourd of wine appearing in his grasp as he gestured with his hand.

"I"d ask why and what you know, but I have the feeling you"re going to tell me anyway, so hit me."

Li Yang could read Zhao Feng well enough to know how he would act, his words swiftly proven correct as Zhao Feng leaned forward and actually brought out a map of the entire Cloud wilderness, pointing out several marked areas while talking.

"The truth is that even though we call ourself the Demon Race, we aren"t the rulers of all Demonic beasts, we aren"t even the rulers of the entire Cloud wilderness, that"s only a front we put up. In truth, very few Divine Beasts actually listen to the Demon Race, you"d be surprised by how many of them are actually against the Demon Race. But this isn"t necessarily a bad thing, the existence of these hostile and neutral Divine Beasts prevents the Demon Race from taking over the entire Cloud Wilderness and spreading too far. You see, once the Demon Race spreads far enough they plan on starting a full-scale invasion of the lands controlled by the humans, their end goal is to control this entire planet and then spread to the surrounding ones. If they move forward with those plans there is no telling how many from both sides will die, it will be horrible."

Each area Zhao Feng pointed out marked the territory of a different Divine Beast that wasn"t part of their Demon Race, a grand total of five, their territories almost forming a complete circle around the territory of the Demon Race. Li Yang slightly raised an eyebrow at the ambitions of the Demon Race, but he didn"t think too much of it, most races had the same ambitions after all. Zhao Feng continued to talk, tapping two of the Divine Beast territories.

"Should the Demon Race learn that Yangwu, Bing Di, and Zhulong have all died, there is at least an 80% chance that they"ll go forward with their plan, they"ll probably start by killing or enslaving the remaining two free Divine Beasts in the Cloud Wilderness, at which point there will be nothing left to stop them from taking over the entire Cloud Wilderness. Luckily, the Divine Beasts are very secretive so it should still take the Demon Race several years before they figure out that something is up."

Divine Beasts could do much like cultivators, go into hiding for several years so that they could quietly cultivate or rest, one could only a.s.sume such a being to be dead upon actually seeing the body with one"s own eyes. Zhao Feng"s gaze drifted onto Li Yang"s dantian, pointing at it with his thumb, his eyes gleaming slightly.

"As for him, I do in fact know what he is. If he is the son of Yangwu, there is only one thing he can be, the son of Bing Di. You know that Yangwu was a Golden Crow, correct? Well, Bing Di was a Glacial Nethersky Tiger, a Divine Beast born with control over the supreme Nethersky Ice, you can consider it on the same level as the Golden Flames."

Li Yang had never heard about the Nethersky Ice but he knew that the flames of the Golden Crow were among the most supreme in the entire universe. So for this Nethersky Ice to be on the same level as the Golden Flames, its might could be imagined. Li Yang himself had already experienced the might and strangeness of this ice, it was even able to freeze things like Qi and souls, it truly deserved to be ranked amongst the most supreme of ice.

Li Yang had always known that Jinwu was special for being a Golden Crow that could also use ice, but he always guessed that he was a mutated Divine Beast, not one that was naturally born the way he was, mainly because that should be impossible. Fang Ying had the same thoughts, her head tilting slightly as she questioned.

"A Divine Beast of the fire element and a Divine Beast of the ice element, ones that even carried supreme elements... had a child together?"

If two flames of the same rank were to encounter each other, they would start a violent battle for supremacy, they would not fuse together. As such, it was impossible for Divine Beasts carrying different supreme flames, like the Phoenix and the Golden Crow, to have children together, the flames would fight in the body of the child and kill it before it could be born.

If this was the case for Divine Beasts who shared an element, just how would it be for two Divine Beasts carrying supreme elements of opposing elements? Ice and fire would not coexist, they should not coexist together, it was a simple fact of life. Li Yang himself had experienced this fact of life when he altered his body using the crystal droplet in the Frozen G.o.d"s Tomb, the ice and fire fighting in his body could have killed him if he hadn"t been careful. And he would certainly not have been able to fuse them had it not been for Jinwu fusing his own blood into Li Yang"s body. Zhao Feng excitedly nodded his head, pointing at Li Yang"s dantian with gleaming eyes.

"Yes! You don"t need me to tell you how rare, even downright impossible, such a thing should be. And yet here is just such an impossibility, a dual-element Divine Beast that should not exist. There is no telling how much war the humans or the Demon Race would wage in an attempt to get their hands on him, just his blood alone is extremely valuable to them. Luckily, he looks very una.s.suming so no one will be able to tell what he is just by looking at him or sensing his bloodline, but once they learn of his origin or get their hand on some of his blood, or see him use both his supreme elements, they will instantly know."

A Divine Beast that should not exist, just how exciting wasn"t news like this? Li Yang once again raised an eyebrow, pulling Jinwu out of his dantian and holding him up in front of him, giving his head a light flick while chuckling.

"Heh, little lazy bones had such a grand history huh? He sure doesn"t act the part, I"ll tell you that."

A Divine Beast that should not exist, and it"s preferred way to pa.s.s time was to rest on Li Yang"s left shoulder, it truly wasted that grand t.i.tle it had been given. Zhao Feng leaned back against the couch again, taking a breath to calm himself while smirking at the scene in front of him.

"Heh, I wonder just how furious the people of the Demon Race would be if they learned that you are treating such a special Divine Beast like that."

If the Demon Race learned of Jinwu they would likely spare nothing to get their hands on him, they would probably either try to raise him to be perfectly loyal, or they might just use him as a living blood bank that they could harvest as they please. Li Yang put Jinwu back into his dantian, pointing at Zhao Feng with his chin while taking a sip of wine.

"You tell me, aren"t you from the Demon Race?"

Fang Ying snagged the gourd of wine from Li Yang as he was in the middle of taking his sip, resulting in him spilling some wine on his robe and sending a light glare at Fang Ying, who simply winked at him and then drank some of his wine. Zhao Feng ignored their little flirting, puffing out his chest in an arrogant manner.

"I"m a special existence, I"m a cla.s.sification of my own."

His words couldn"t exactly be denied, he was after all someone who had succeeded in reincarnation, at least he would have if it weren"t for the fact that something interfered at the end. Li Yang and Fang Ying simply rolled their eyes at Zhao Feng, both choosing to not humor him, resulting in him clicking his tongue and pouting slightly while changing the subject.

"So, what have you decided to do? I haven"t left the Cloud Wilderness in what feels like forever, so I"ll follow you just about anywhere else."

Li Yang snagged back his gourd of wine from Fang Ying after a short scuffle and put it to his lips so that he could take a drink, only to discover that it had been completely emptied by Fang Ying. He put the gourd away, smirking at Zhao Feng.

"Well, let"s go hunt some Divine Beasts then."

They had no leads on Bai Yawen and Ye Ning so finding them was going to be very hard, in that case, they might as well continue what they were doing here, hunting Divine Beasts to awaken Jinwu and the dragon twins. Zhao Feng nodded his head, but Fang Ying rolled her eyes after hearing Li Yang"s grand declaration.

"You know, I"m sure there are clearer ways of saying that you intend to follow Tian Zheng to see if the two islands he"s going to inspect carry Divine Beasts."

They had no leads on where to find any Divine Beasts, and searching blindly was highly inefficient. In that case, it would be best to go to a place where they knew something had happened, such as the groups that Tian Zheng had lost contact with. Li Yang didn"t deny what his plans were, defending his choice of words.

"Yes, but my way sounds cooler."

Zhao Feng ended up snorting slightly, choking on the tea he was drinking when he heard Li Yang"s shameless admittance. Fang Ying also let out a chuckle and nodded her head, the three of them simply enjoying the peace of having reunited.

"Aye, fair enough, I"ll give you that."