0p0 Chapter 438 The Origin of the Sacred Artifact
Chapter 438 The Origin of the Sacred Artifact
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Guangyinghan's voice suddenly rose, with a hint of disbelief, "The ancestors were horrified to find that despite their bodies undergoing such horrific beast transformation, their minds were still clear!
They haven't turned into the beasts outside who only know how to kill! They are still the Snow Tribe, with human thoughts and emotions, but their bodies... have become like this! "
"The tribe leader at the time, despite the drastic changes in his body and the panic in his heart, decided to lead the tribe's most powerful warriors to the top of the holy mountain, to the temple where the Snow God was in seclusion!
They have to find out what happened! What happened to the Snow God?
When Guangyinghan's narration reached the most critical point, his light and shadow flickered violently and almost collapsed.
He spoke very quickly, each word laced with blood and tears:
"When they had overcome countless hardships, breaking through the turbulent currents at the core of the Holy Mountain after the mutation, and finally reached the temple on the mountaintop...
What he saw... was a dead, silent ruin! The core of the temple, symbolizing the power of the Snow God, had long since collapsed!
And in the center of the ruins..."
The light and shadow suddenly pointed above the crystal ball, and the light condensed into a vague outline of a female figure that was full of resentment and pride - the Ice Queen!
"It's her! The Ice Queen! She has been lurking on the Holy Mountain, hidden in the shadow of the Snow God's glory!
No one knew how despicable and shameless she had used, attacking the Snow God at his weakest moment of retreat...sneak attack, plotting against him, and perhaps even...devouring him!"
Guangyinghan's voice was filled with overwhelming hatred, "She stole part of the Snow God's authority and power, and usurped control of the core of the Holy Mountain!
The bloody snow phenomenon that caused the entire tribe to transform into beasts was actually a disaster caused by her in order to control the holy mountain and distort the rules!
She... replaced the Snow God and became the new, ruthless ruler of the Holy Mountain!
She regards us as slaves, as experimental subjects, and as nourishment to maintain her power!
The deep blood feud of the Snow Clan, who were imprisoned, oppressed, and had their bloodline power drained for three thousand years... all stems from this!"
Guangyinghan’s story came to an abrupt end!
His light and shadow twisted and flickered violently, becoming extremely thin, as if it would collapse at any time.
The further Han spoke, the more angry he became.
The blood feud and humiliation that had accumulated for thousands of years seemed to have found an outlet at this moment. Every word was full of tears and hatred.
"That devil! The Ice Emperor!"
Han's voice was as sharp and piercing as an ice knife scraping across rock, "After she usurped the throne, the first thing she did was force us to change our beliefs!
The Snow Goddess's statue was toppled and smashed, replaced by her hideous ice remains! Who dares to disobey?
Guangyinghan clenched his fists suddenly, and his illusory body shook violently with anger.
"She would kill one of her compatriots every day in front of the entire clan! She would use the cruelest ice torture, freezing the living into frozen remains, then breaking them up piece by piece!
Let the wailing and fear penetrate into everyone's bones!"
Hu Qing and Gu Yang took a deep breath, as if they could feel the terrifying cloud that had been hanging over the Snow Clan for thousands of years.
"She was afraid that we would escape from this purgatory!" Han's voice was filled with deep resentment, "so she used her stolen and twisted divine power to cast the most vicious curse on us!
She 'bestowed' us with a long, almost immortal lifespan, but deprived us of the ability to reproduce!
Let us watch our clansmen die one by one, but we can never add new bloodlines!
She has also bound us to the Holy Mountain with a curse! For generations, our souls and bodies will be trapped in this icy prison, forever bound to us!"
This twisted "immortality" is more despairing than death.
"We... have no choice." Guangyinghan's voice deepened, filled with endless humiliation. "For the continuation of our race, even if it's just to linger on...
We had to bow our heads, pretend to believe in her, build shrines for her, and offer hypocritical prayers...but it did not bring her mercy! "
His voice rose again, filled with accusations of blood and tears:
"She's intensifying her exploitation of us! She's forcing all of our tribe to cultivate, absorbing the scarce spiritual energy of this bitterly cold land...
Then, like harvesting crops, she regularly extracts the spiritual power that we have cultivated with great effort to nourish herself!
If you slack off for a moment, or if she is dissatisfied with your cultivation progress... you will end up having your spiritual energy sucked away and turning into ice dust!
Thousands of years... the bones of her people who died at her hands... are enough to fill the entire mountain!"
Han's gaze was like a real ice cone, piercing Hu Qing and Gu Yang. The grief and pain contained in his eyes almost drowned them.
"Back then... I was just a child."
His voice trembled slightly, "I can only hide in the corner, watching my parents, my uncles, and my familiar clansmen turn into ice powder under the Ice Emperor's capricious mood...
That feeling of powerlessness... that hatred that goes deep into my bones..."
The light and shadow flickered violently, as if they were about to collapse in the next moment due to the emotional excitement.
He took a deep breath, managed to calm down a little, and continued:
"Until that day... a crack appeared in the sky..."
A faint but incomparably determined light ignited in Han's eyes.
"A completely black fragment with irregular edges fell from the crack and merged directly into my body!"
He raised his phantom hand and pointed at his chest, "It is what you know as... the fragment of the holy artifact."
Hu Qing and Gu Yang were shocked. It was indeed true!
"At the time... I didn't know what it was, I just felt a cold and powerful force awakening within me."
Han's voice was filled with a hint of confusion from reminiscence, which then turned into a fervent piety. "I thought it was the spirit of the Snow God in heaven who finally saw the suffering of His people and gave me the power of revenge! He has not abandoned us!"
"The fragment... or rather, the will within it, tells me it's a broken 'holy vessel', possessing the power to absorb, nourish, and even control souls!"
Guangyinghan's tone became hurried and hopeful, "More importantly! It was the Ice Queen's vicious curse that prevented the souls of the tribesmen she killed from dissipating.
Unable to reincarnate, I can only wander painfully in this cursed land! This... is simply a godsend opportunity! "
The light in the crystal ball grew brighter as he spoke, as if recreating the scene of that year.
"I used the power of the fragments to carefully avoid the Ice Emperor's perception and secretly built this 'Soul Palace' deep in the Holy Mountain!"
Guangyinghan's voice was filled with hidden excitement, "I brought those tribesmen who died at the hands of the Ice Emperor and whose souls wailed in the wind and snow here one by one, and provided them with shelter using the power of the holy artifact fragments.
Nourish their remaining souls and protect them from the erosion of wind and snow and the suffering of being torn apart!
I told them to be patient... one day, we will accumulate enough strength to pull this usurper from the throne and avenge the Snow Clan's blood debt!"