Chapter 514: Past
"Old man, how is your body?" A voice suddenly echoed in the surroundings.
The voice sounded old and dignified.
If Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue were there, they would immediately recognise it as belonging to senior Niu.
However, there was something different about the bullock’s appearance.
Rather than four legs like an ordinary cow, it had one leg and exuded an extremely terrifying aura.
"I can still hold on." Another old voice answered.
At the same time, the figure of an old man appeared.
The man wore a white robe, had white hair and a long white beard.
At a glance, he was the standard image of an immortal.
"It’s been almost two thousand years since the boys left the Cangxing world." The old man said.
"The river of time flows unceasingly." Senior said and looked at the old man.
It had been a long time since he last saw old man Cang.
Fortunately, the old man didn’t look worse than before.
However, he didn’t look better.
"If everything went well, the boys should have already advanced to the ninth level of the reincarnation realm. When they break through to the immortal realm, our Cangxing world will take another step forward."
"I don’t expect they will break through for another few thousand years." Old man Cang said but he didn’t look displeased.
After all, he had also considered the situation.
With the Cangxing world’s current standing in the Reincarnation world, the Cangxing mountain couldn’t do without a powerful backer.
Knowing that, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue would likely delay their breakthrough for as long as they could.
"Waiting a few thousand years is not a bad thing. They need time to temper their qi and state of mind. When the time is right, they will naturally advance to the immortal realm." Senior Niu agreed and old man Cang nodded.
"Since they have come so far, they should know everything." Old man Cang said with a nostalgic look in his eyes.
Originally, the Ten Thousand Worlds realm was nothing but chaos.
There was nothing in the chaos but there also seemed to be everything.
One day, a vast land suddenly appeared in the chaos and old man Cang was the will of that land.
At that time, the old man was a baby and completely ignorant.
However, as time passed, more things appeared in the land and the little baby grew.
In the blink of an eye, his appearance changed from that of an infant to that of a young boy and eventually turned into a teenager.
Similarly, people, herbs, beasts, and cultivation among other things appeared in the Cangxing world.
Naturally, the transformation process from nothing to plenty wasn’t short or peaceful.
Rather, each bit of progress was achieved through hardships and rivers of blood.
However, young man Cang was just the will of the world.
He couldn’t unnecessarily interfere with the people or beasts of the world.
In the end, he could only watch their struggles and intervene only when it was absolutely necessary.
However, this was enough.
Before he knew it, the Cangxing people had developed from beings who knew nothing to powerful cultivators who were only a step away from becoming gods.
Unfortunately, this prosperous age didn’t last forever.
One day, a young woman suddenly appeared in the Cangxing world.
The woman was extraordinarily beautiful and could control all the plants in the world.
Whether the plant was a common weed at the side of a road or a divine tree hidden in the forbidden lands, they were all helpless in front of the woman.
At first, young man Cang didn’t think this was a problem.
After all, there were cultivators who could control plants.
If they cultivated to the limit, they would also be able to control all the plants in the world.
While he wasn’t concerned about the young woman’s ability, young man Cang was interested in her identity.
As the will of the world, he knew everyone in the Cangxing world.
He also knew all foreign cultivators who entered his world.
However, young man Cang knew nothing about the woman.
He didn’t know if she was born in the Cangxing world or entered from outside.
Most importantly, he couldn’t see through her cultivation and didn’t know the motives of her existence.
Since his birth, young man Cang had never encountered such a situation.
Because of this, he became wary of the woman.
Unfortunately, everything was too late.
At some point, the woman had invaded the core of the Cangxing world and subtly corrupted the Tao.
Although the corruption wasn’t great, the results were extremely profound.
After investigating the situation, young man Cang realised that the path to godhood had suddenly been cut off.
In this way, no matter how hard Cangxing cultivators tried, they would never be able to become gods.
Knowing this, young man Cang was extremely angry.
In a fit of rage, he attacked the beautiful young woman.
Unfortunately, young man Cang couldn’t deal with her.
Even with the advantage of fighting in the Cangxing world, he could only contain but not kill the woman.
After fighting for more than ten thousand years, the two severely injured each other.
Seeing that she couldn’t gain the upper hand, the beautiful woman escaped from the Cangxing world.
At the same time, young man Cang began to change.
His black hair turned white and his youthful face aged to that of an old man.
This was a result of the corruption in the core of the world.
However, old man Cang didn’t have time to care for himself.
Instead, he gathered all the power of the world to control the corruption of the world’s core.
Originally, he thought he would be able to erase the corruption and slowly recuperate the Cangxing world.
Unfortunately, the matter wasn’t as simple as he expected.
When he thought he had managed to eliminate the corruption, a new corruption would appear and the world core quickly eroded.
Most importantly, old man Cang realised that Cangxing cultivators could not detect the correct world tao and were comprehending a slightly altered tao.
Seeing this, old man Cang was desperate.
He tried to enlighten some powerful cultivators but his teachings never landed.
Even more unfortunate, all newborn children were corrupted before birth.
Unlike their predecessors who could vaguely feel that something was wrong, the souls of newborn children were completely incapable of detecting or accepting the old Tao.
At this point, old man Cang fell into despair.
In the fight with the beautiful woman; Siwang, he was severely injured.
After recuperating for a long time, he still couldn’t wield the full powers of the Cangxing world.
Even if he could, Siwang was incomparably powerful and her methods were unfamiliar to the old man.
During this time, more trouble appeared.
Unexpectedly, space beasts appeared outside the Cangxing world.
Because the old man was injured and the world core was corroded, the space beasts managed to tear a hole in the Cangxing world boundary.
Soon after, hordes of space beasts entered the world and Cangxing cultivators banded together to deal with the threat.
Unfortunately, disasters don’t come singly.
While the world was dealing with the space beasts, evil cultivators caused internal strife and foreign devils continued to make trouble.
The combination of all these troubles almost brought the Cangxing world to its knees.
Fortunately, the Cangxing world had given birth to many loyal and powerful children.
When the Cangxing world was on the brink of collapse, these children came together and used their bodies to arrange the infinite transformations world-guarding formation.
Seeing this, old man Cang also woke up from his despair.
Before the formation was activated, old man Cang, Yu Nianzhen, Jiang Yue, and several primordial chaos beasts came up with a solution.
Because of the corruption of the world, none of those born in the Cangxing world could advance to godhood.
However, only a god could cleanse the world and ensure the prosperity of the Cangxing world.
Thinking this way, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue volunteered to take a risk.
The risk was to have their souls reincarnated in a world in another realm.
In doing this, they would be reincarnated with clean souls and the corruption in the Cangxing world would not affect their perception of the Tao.
However, this was a gamble.
This was because it was unknown whether the corruption would erode their perfect tao foundation when the two returned to the Cangxing world.
However, there were no better options.
After Yu Nianzhen and the rest entered the infinite transformations world guarding formation, old man Cang was not idle.
He spent the following one million years suppressing the core corruption.
Fortunately, his efforts were not in vain.
Although it took most of the power of the Cangxing world and even caused the demotion of the world, the results were satisfactory.
When Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue returned, the core corruption was so suppressed that it couldn’t affect their perception of the true Tao.
