Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 337

Chapter 337 The History of Lingxi World

. The first thing that caught Xia Chao and Qiu Shi’s eye was a contract they were all too familiar with—the Master-Servant Contract.

However, the Master-Servant Contract depicted on the mural differed significantly from the current Lingxi world.

Xia Chao saw powerful contracted beasts bowing to humans, pledging allegiance. The annotations beside the mural indicated that this was a master-servant contract, with the mark held by humans symbolizing the master.

“In the earliest days of the Master-Servant Contract, humans were the masters and the contracted beasts the servants, unlike today,”

Xiaoqing and the Bone-Winged White Tiger fumed, expressing dissatisfaction with the old times.

Why should humans be their masters?

Xia Chao ignored Xiaoqing, who rolled her eyes as she hung around his neck, and continued to try to decipher the mural.

The mural didn’t seem to be a record of something, but rather a desperate, maddened desire to record everything and leave its mark on the world.

Therefore, the mural and annotations were difficult to decipher.

It was hard to imagine what could have driven a cultivator at least in the late stage of the Divine Transformation Realm to such a desperate situation.

“Although they had signed a master-servant contract, humans didn’t treat their contracted beasts as slaves, ordering them around at will. Instead, they treated them as friends, giving them equal status.”

“The contracted beasts helped humans cultivate, allowing some humans to study the laws governing various things in their spare time, summarizing these laws and using spiritual energy as a driving force.”

“This method greatly promoted production and benefited both humans and the contracted beasts.”

“More and more contracted beasts fell in love with human technology and voluntarily signed contracts to become slaves and serve humans.”

“Humanity and the contracted beasts developed harmoniously, and both sides grew stronger.”

“One day, a strange demonic beast appeared. It had a snake-like body and nine heads. No one dared to sign a contract with it.”

“A man named ‘Ba’ signed a contract with this demonic beast.”

“The nine-headed contracted beast cultivated rapidly. Due to the effectiveness of the master-servant contract, the slave’s cultivation could never surpass that of the master. ‘Ba’ would always be one level higher than the nine-headed contracted beast.”

“When the nine-headed contracted beast reached the Spiritual Transformation Stage, it awakened its spiritual intelligence, inherited the memories of its ancestors, and finally understood its own life experience.”

“The nine-headed contracted beast is named Xiangliu, a species of immortal beast. It experienced a reversion to its ancestral form, its bloodline purity highly aligning with its ancestors’. This explains its rapid cultivation speed.”

“Later, after endless battles and slaughter, Xiangliu reached the Tribulation Crossing Stage, and so did Ba.”

“It was then that people realized that the Tribulation Crossing Stage lies above the Fusion Stage.”

“Later, Xiangliu attained immortality, and so did Ba.”

On the mural, a towering figure, Xiangliu, towering taller than a mountain, stretched out his nine heads to resist the Immortal Crossing Tribulation. Ba stood beside Xiangliu, allowing him to shield him from it.

The Immortal Ladder appeared, and Xiangliu and Ba became immortals.

“This was both the first and last person to ascend in the Lingxi World. Whenever someone asked how to reach the Tribulation Crossing Stage, Ba and Xiangliu kept silent, fearing someone would surpass them.” “

No one in the Lingxi World has ever achieved immortality again.”

Seeing this, Jiang Li shook his head slightly. “Ba and Xiangliu publicly stated that reaching the Tribulation Crossing Stage was the only thing that harmed the Lingxi World.”

Unfortunately, the people of Lingxi World didn’t understand the meaning, believing that “Ba” and Xiangliu were unwilling to share their experiences.

“After ascending, the man and the beast never returned. Perhaps after ascending to the immortal realm, they can no longer descend.”

Xia Chao finished reading the annotation on the mural and turned to Jiang Li.

“Is that so?”

“Of course not. As long as there is a connection to the Immortal Ladder, immortals can travel from the immortal realm to any world, including the world they ascended to.”

“Then why haven’t they returned?” Qiu Shi was puzzled.

“Because ‘Ba’ has never practiced cultivation, it is equivalent to becoming an immortal by lying down. Although his level has reached the immortal level, his actual combat ability is far inferior to that of his peers. The immortal world is not a place where harmony brings wealth. After he ascends, he may die in battle. Due to the existence of the master-servant contract, when the master dies, Xiangliu also dies.”

“But these are just speculations and may not be accurate.”

“Although ‘Ba’ and Xiangliu never came back, they left behind a rich legacy before ascending. The Lingxi world has experienced explosive growth, and the number of contracted beasts and cultivators in the fusion stage has continued to increase. In various bounty competitions, world competitions, and league competitions, people and contracted beasts are keen to participate in competitions to gain fame and wealth.”

On the mural, people and contracted beasts are holding hands, and both sides are filled with happy smiles.

“Everything was going well, but then one day, a contracted beast reached the Tribulation Crossing Stage, while its master didn’t.”

“Somehow, this contracted beast broke its contract and escaped control.”

“This contracted beast seems to harbor hatred for both humans and demonic beasts, possessing a violent temperament and killing countless people.”

“Humans and demonic beasts wanted to resist, but unfortunately, facing a second Tribulation Crossing Stage, they were powerless.”

On the mural, a monkey with a red head and white feet bared its teeth, its ugly appearance a stark reminder of a ferocious demonic beast.

Xia Chao and Qiu Shi had never seen such a monkey before.

“It’s Zhu Yan. Judging from his appearance in the mural, he’s probably another atavistic creature.” Jiang Li and Bai Xueling both recognized him. Zhu Yan was also an immortal beast with a powerful bloodline.

Xia Chao continued to interpret the mural: “People had no choice but to hide in the air-raid shelter, hoping to stop the terrifying contracted beast.”

“That contracted beast made the human race no longer trust other contracted beasts. People abandoned the contracted beasts and hid in the air-raid shelters alone.”

“The human race has built hundreds of large air-raid shelters, but every other day we receive news that a certain air-raid shelter has fallen. The contracted beast seems to be looking for something. What could it be?”

“It seems to have discovered that humans can communicate using radios, but somehow it cut off contact.”

“We have completely lost contact with the outside world.”

“The contracted beast comes…”

The mural ends here, and the monk who painted this mural did not finish the last sentence.

Although it wasn’t written, everyone could guess that Zhu Yan, in the Tribulation Crossing stage, had broken through the door and entered the air-raid shelter. No one escaped, not even the mural artist.

Though the mural artist was in the late Spiritualization stage or even the Fusion stage, he was no match for Zhu Yan, a Tribulation Crossing stage cultivator, and could only be slaughtered.

“That’s it?” Xia Chao was surprised. The previous era had been destroyed by a single Zhu Yan.

But how Zhu Yan had broken the master-servant contract, why he harbored hatred for humanity, and where he was now were all unknown.

“Perhaps there’s more to it.” Jiang Li scanned the air-raid shelter with his spiritual sense and found something interesting.

Bai Xueling also noticed something.

The air-raid shelter was like a giant maze; without a map, it was easy to get lost.

Jiang Li led the group to a small room where the scattered remains of a single person or several were located.

Jiang Li picked up a diary. After two thousand years, the paper had become brittle, so he refined it slightly to increase its strength and toughness.

The first page of the diary reads:

“Today I signed a master-servant contract with a little monkey with a red head and white feet.”

(End of this chapter)