Ch 462: Heart Demon （part 1）
The words were only halfway spoken when a series of disordered footsteps sounded outside the room.
The woman’s face changed. Not bothering to speak further, she directly closed the box. A look of determination appeared on her face as she left the room and shut the door.
“This is…?”
Huang Tian looked at the now empty room, inexplicably remembering the child locked in the box.
The next moment, both of them quickly covered their heads, feeling as if something was trying to burst out of their brains; a splitting headache.
At that moment, an extremely piercing sound echoed in his mind.
A rush of memories instantly flooded his mind.
Huang Tian quickly absorbed and digested these memories. At this point, he could no longer maintain his composure.
“I remember…”
This was the darkest and most unbearable experience of his childhood. To avoid remembering it, he had sealed this memory away using a Spirit Treasure.
At that time, he was still a descendant of a branch family of the Yellow Wind Tiger Clan. His family was among the most inconspicuous ordinary demonic beasts, and the Yellow Wind Tiger Clan was then a mid-level tribe.
At that time, the Yellow Wind Tiger and Yellow Sand Rat Clans both greatly favored wind-swept and sand-filled lands. Coupled with their similar strengths, both clans coveted a Feng Shui treasure land, leading to frequent conflicts, eventually escalating into a bitter enemy relationship.
His father died at the hands of a Yellow Sand Rat when he was only five or six years old. From then on, he could only rely on his mother for survival.
Later, as seen in the first image he saw, the Yellow Sand Rat Clan directly attacked the location of his branch family, resulting in only a few children surviving; he was one of them.
The second image he saw, the Yellow Wind Tiger Clan woman and the child hiding in the box, were his mother and himself.
To protect him, his mother stuffed him into the box and charged out alone to draw the attention of the other Yellow Sand Rat Clan members, thus saving him. However, his mother died in the process.
As Huang Tian was lost in his memories, an extremely cold yet familiar voice suddenly appeared in his ear.
“Is that really how it happened? Then why did you seal this memory away?”
A bloody hand gently touched Huang Tian’s shoulder.
Huang Tian turned his head to see a woman covered in blood, with disheveled hair.
The woman’s face was covered with countless scars, making her features indistinct and extremely frightening.
Although he couldn’t clearly see the woman’s appearance, Huang Tian recognized her from her voice alone.
“Mother…”
Huang Tian’s face instantly turned grim, and another segment of memory flowed from his mind.
Before his father went to the battlefield, he had given him something and said a sentence.
“A Tian, keep this Spirit Treasure. If you and your mother ever encounter danger in the future, this will be your lifeline. If your father dies on the battlefield this time, you will be the one to protect your mother…”
Huang Tian abruptly turned his head, not daring to look at the woman behind him.
However, the woman leaned into his ear, her tone resentful.
“Don’t you really remember? You were clearly holding that Spirit Treasure at the time. If you had used it, you could have saved your mother…”
At the same time, a very shrill scream suddenly came from outside the room in the scene before him.
It lasted for a long time before disappearing.
Only then did the boy slowly open the box. He cautiously stared at the closed door, clutching a Spirit Treasure in his hand.
“Enough!”
Huang Tian’s face suddenly became ferocious. He roared, “I was a child then, I didn’t understand anything. Even if I had used the Spirit Treasure, your fate would have been the same; you would still have died. And not only you, but I would have died too!”
“What I did was right. Otherwise, how could I have become the Demon Saint revered by all demonic beasts? I have killed every single member of the Yellow Sand Rat Clan to avenge you!”
As Huang Tian was making his defense.
Zang Yue also found himself suddenly alone, but he didn’t panic.
Because he knew this was just a little trick Xiao Han used with the Illusion Formation.
So he stood calmly in place, motionless, continuously expanding his Domain outwards, until he could sense the auras of Huang Tian and the other two.
However, the next second, he suddenly found that the scene before him had changed slightly.
The sky remained dark, but he found himself in a dark and cold valley.
“This is the Tribal Land!”
Zang Yue paused slightly, recognizing this as the place where generations of their Nine Nether Eagle Clan had lived.
“Is this the power of the Illusion Formation? You underestimate me.”
Zang Yue sneered coldly, then looked around his Tribal Land with interest.
But while he was looking, he remained motionless.
He clearly knew that the change in the scene before him must have been caused by the Illusion Formation Li Hanzhou had set up in the cave. The purpose was to make him panic and become trapped in the illusions created by the formation.
At that point, whether Xiao Han wanted to launch a sneak attack or escape, he could do so.
Therefore, he made up his mind that no matter what appeared before him, he had no need to pay attention to it.
At this moment.
An impenetrable aura suddenly appeared in the already cold valley.
This aura was similar to the aura emanating from the valley, but the former was countless times colder than the latter.
A Colossus, large enough to blot out the sun and cover the entire valley, appeared, eventually transforming into an Old Man wearing a black robe.
Zang Yue looked at the Old Man curiously.
The Old Man also suddenly looked at him, then a smile appeared on his face, and he said, “You are the current leader of our Nine Nether Eagle Clan? You’ve reached the Immortal Realm at such a young age, very good!”
Zang Yue opened his mouth to say, “Who the hell are you?!”
However, the moment he saw the Old Man, he suddenly remembered a portrait enshrined in the Ancestral Hall of the Tribal Land.
The portrait depicted their Nine Nether Eagle Clan’s Ancestor, someone who had once reached the Half-step Divine Pool, but disappeared after reaching it.
Therefore, two stories about the Ancestor circulated within their tribe.
One was that the Ancestor died in an unknown place.
The other was that the Ancestor disappeared because he found an opportunity for Ascension and successfully ascended to the Immortal Realm.
The Old Man before him looked exactly like the Ancestor’s portrait hanging in the Ancestral Hall of their Nine Nether Eagle Clan’s Tribal Land.
Just as Zang Yue was pondering.
Countless Nine Nether Eagle Clan members suddenly ran out of the Tribal Land.
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