Red Heart Patrols the Sky - Chapter 466 - Facing the Night

Chapter 466 - Facing the Night

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Chapter 466 of "Red Heart Patrols the Sky" opens with: “From ‘Offering’ to ‘Mutual Hunt,’ nearly three hundred years passed.”“What happened during these three centuries,... Find out what happens!

“From ‘Offering’ to ‘Mutual Hunt,’ nearly three hundred years passed.”“What happened during these three centuries, which was anything but brief?”

Su Qiyun couldn’t help but ponder, facing Yan Xiao, such an undying creature, what choices the Senhai Holy Clan would make.”

Her expression grew grave, because she thought of a possibility,

“All along our journey through the forest of hanging skulls, we saw those wood huts, cave dwellings, all speaking to the presence of the Human Race in the past.

One can imagine, long ago, many tribes lived in the Forest Sea Source Realm.

One of those tribes, either through force or divine favor, occupied the Divine Shade Land, thus becoming the ‘Holy Tribe’.”

At this point, Jiang Wang asked, “So why did most of those tribes nearly go extinct?

Was it because of Yan Xiao?”

“I don’t think so,” Jiang Wang continued his analysis: “Despite Yan Xiao’s erratic sentience, it possesses intelligence and surely understands the folly of overhunting.

Also, from its ‘domestication’ of the Senhai Holy Clan, it’s clear it understood how to enjoy its ‘food’ in a simpler, more enduring way.”

“Did any of you notice the skulls hanging on the trees outside?” Jiang Wang asked.

“The vast majority of skulls are different from those raised in the Divine Shade Land belonging to the Senhai Holy Clan.”

Wu Quji pulled out the Golden Needle from the wooden table, ceasing his distracting action.

The conjecture Jiang Wang was describing was terrifying.

“The Priest told me that when Guan Yan, as the Dragon God’s envoy, descended, it was the most chaotic time in the Forest Sea Source Realm.

The only Dragon God’s envoy who found the Holy Tribe alive was Guan Yan alone.”

When Jiang Wang sat, his spine was as straight as a sword.

He asked, “Now, when Yan Xiao rampages, when the Senhai Holy Clan is trapped in the Divine Shade Land, when wild beasts roam, when the Dragon God has been silent for many years… these aren’t the most chaotic times for the Forest Sea Source Realm.

So what would have been the most chaotic period like?”

At that moment, Su Qiyun said, “I think it was a time when the Senhai Holy Clan hunted other major tribes, offering the heads of other tribes to Yan Xiao to preserve themselves.”

“It was a hunt and counter-hunt that enveloped the entire Forest Sea Source Realm, filled with hatred, loathing, pain, grievances, conflict, and slaughter…”

“One tribe after another…

vanished.”

The cabin fell silent.

“Are you saying…” Wu Quji struggled to say, “The Senhai Holy Clan should be our enemy?”

“Not necessarily,” Jiang Wang glanced outside the cabin; the corpse of Qing Qishu lay there.

“The Senhai Holy Clan is the main culprit behind other tribes’ extinction.

Perhaps this explains why, over five hundred years ago, only Guan Yan, among the divine envoys, survived because he met a young Priest who fell in love with him at first sight.

But to others in the Holy Tribe, the newcomers were no different from other tribe members; they were merely a reserve for offerings to Yan Xiao.”

“We need to find out what exactly happened over five hundred years ago that allowed the young Priest to become a Priest and the foreign descender Guan Yan to shape the traditions of the Senhai Holy Clan.

Only then can we determine if today’s Senhai Holy Clan is different from that time.

After this, we can decide: friend or foe.”

“Because of Qing Qishu?” Su Qiyun asked directly, “Is it because of Qing Qishu that despite making such a terrifying conjecture, you still hold hope for the current Senhai Holy Clan?”

“It’s him, but not just him,” Jiang Wang said.

“We all lived in the Divine Shade Land for a few days; how do its people in any way resemble those of the Dark Ages?”

Recalling the peace and serenity, the freshness and brightness of the Divine Shade Land, even Wu Quji nodded involuntarily.

“That’s why I haven’t dwelled much on this likelihood until Yan Xiao’s death when the exit passageway remained closed, which forced me to reconsider this possibility.”

Having said this, Jiang Wang thought for a moment and then added, “Perhaps we should first figure out the true content of the Dragon God’s decree.

Is what the Priest interpreted for us the real information?”

“How do we figure that out?” Wu Quji asked.

“Kidnap her?

Coerce her?”

“…We might not be her match.”

“The Saintess of Green?” Wu Quji asked again.

If there truly was no other choice, that might be a feasible path.

While Jiang Wang pondered, Su Qiyun said, “I don’t care what has happened to the Senhai Holy Clan, what changes have occurred.

I only want to know how the ‘Night Attack’ happened and… how to eradicate it.”

Jiang Wang was silent for a moment.

What he had always considered was how to successfully complete the exploration and leave the Forest Sea Source Realm, based on his own circumstances.

But he also knew that Su Qiyun’s stance might not align with theirs.

Just as she wasn’t initially enthusiastic about Yan Xiao, it was only after she became convinced that Yan Xiao caused the ‘Night Attack’ that she determined to come to the forest of hanging skulls.

She not only didn’t care what had happened to the Senhai Holy Clan, but she also didn’t care about how to leave the Forest sea source realm.

At least, before avenging “Fish”, she didn’t care about that.

“What do you want to do?” Wu Quji asked her.

“I’m not trying to dampen your spirits, but the ‘Night Attack’ is something the Senhai Holy Clan hasn’t been able to solve for centuries.

How much time can you afford to spend here?”

“A lifetime,” said Su Qiyun, “All my life.

I can’t let Fish die in obscurity.”

When Wu Quji asked her how much time she could spend here, she answered, as much time as it takes.

Jiang Wang understood; in any case, she wasn’t planning to join them in kidnapping some Blue Holy Maiden or verifying any divine decree.

But for such sneaky tasks, Su Qiyun, originating from Tianfu, was undoubtedly more suitable than the rest of them.

Although Tianfu’s nature was not the same as Beam Top Building, they were still very adept at stealing.

If the kidnapping of the Blue Holy Maiden were to be exposed, it was very likely they’d be beaten to death by the samurai of the Holy Tribe.

The warriors of the Senhai Holy Clan were only incapable of dealing with Yan Xiao; they were not weak in themselves.

Not to mention there was a profoundly unpredictable old priest.

Jiang Wang asked, “Since you say so, you must have thought of how to do it.

Why not share it with us, and we’ll give you some advice?”

Although there was a divergence at this moment, collaboration wasn’t necessarily out of reach.

Su Qiyun said, “I want to see for myself, what sort of devil it is.”

“Are you crazy?” Wu Quji said bluntly.

“That’s not the way to seek death!”

Jiang Wang sighed, “The dead are gone; the living need to live well.

I believe she, if her spirit is in heaven, would also want you to take care of yourself.”

“You don’t understand.

You don’t understand at all what Fish means to me,” Su Qiyun said, her eyes cast down.

“She’s gone mysteriously.

How can I be okay?”

“This is the only way.”

She repeated, “This is the only way.”

The suspended flame flowers were generous with their light, yet she bowed her head slightly, her entire face as if in the shadows.

“Originally, I just wanted to steal something and leave,” she said.

“I didn’t want to fight, to avoid fighting.”

“Yan Xiao, the Seven-star Tower.

I just wanted to take advantage without putting in the effort and run when the opportunity came.

Wait for you to open the passage, then I’d sneak in with Fish.

I run fast.”

“I come from Tianfu; I really can escape.”

“But now.”

Su Qiyun said, “I will not run away anymore.”

She stood up, without a moment’s hesitation walked outside the house, walked beyond the range of the Dragon’s fragrance, into the night.

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