CHAPTER 1173: CHAPTER 776: HEADING TO COMMON VALLEY!

"But here for the Human Race..."

"Here, only Elder Fu Yuzi is needed. He stays, I follow. It must be this way. Since every race will go, a conflict is highly likely to occur, so you also need manpower!"

Luo Shanyou’s attitude was very firm.

Neither Daoist Qingde nor Xiang Tianxing chose to bring the Stellar Death Warrior, which resulted in no clues being left behind for the Human Race after the incident, leaving them with a near-devastating blow.

Luo Shanyou did not allow the same thing to happen again.

Xiang Beifei was still hesitant, but after a moment, he agreed, saying, "Alright."

With an extra person, there’s ultimately more strength, and he did not persist in this matter.

"Uncle, how much do you know about Common Valley?" Xiang Beifei asked.

"Common Valley is a very strange place. You can perceive it as an ancient battleground. The Dao Palace can’t actually control that place. At most, they use some power of the Ancestral Artifact to hide its entrance, but inside Common Valley, various powerful forces are entwined, many stemming from top experts in the Ancestral Dao Realm who perished in ancient times. These are on par with the Ancestral Artifact. It’s impossible to block that place with just a few Ancestral Artifacts."

"The Ancestral Artifact controls the Heavenly Dao. No matter how strong the power of an expert in the Ancestral Dao Realm is, it shouldn’t surpass the Ancestral Artifact by all rights." Xiang Beifei said.

The abilities exercised by those in the Ancestral Dao Realm are also under the Heavenly Dao. The Heavenly Dao is the strongest force in the world, absolutely stronger than any expert in the Ancestral Dao Realm.

"I don’t know the specifics, but according to what Daoist Qingde once told me, he mentioned that the Ancestral Artifact was actually born in Common Valley!" Luo Shanyou said.

Xiang Beifei was slightly surprised.

This was something Xiang Beifei didn’t expect.

If the Ancestral Artifact was born in Common Valley, then this place is definitely stronger than the Ancestral Artifact, which means the Dao Palace can’t possibly seal Common Valley entirely with just one Ancestral Artifact.

"Then how did my grandfather go back then?" Xiang Beifei asked.

Luo Shanyou looked at the shattered Wufeng sword in Xiang Beifei’s hand, hesitated for a bit, then said, "He said that as long as there is an Ancestral Artifact, one can freely enter and exit Common Valley; the Ancestral Artifact is like a key to Common Valley."

The Ancestral Artifact is a key?

Xiang Beifei was taken aback.

It turned out Uncle already knew about this. No wonder he rarely mentioned anything about Wufeng to Xiang Beifei and never talked about the Ancestral Artifact to him, fearing that Xiang Beifei, owning Wufeng, would suddenly head to Common Valley.

"What specific Heavenly Dao Laws does Wufeng have? What laws is the Human Race lacking?" Xiang Beifei asked.

The original complete Wufeng Ancestral Artifact in the hands of Daoist Qingde was perfect, yet he still wanted to go to Common Valley, indicating that a certain Heavenly Dao Law rune deprived from the Human Race was not with Wufeng.

Luo Shanyou pointed to that snowflake-like system interface above his head and said, "I don’t know the specifics, but it should be related to this. The people of Jiuzhou, with the system, can cultivate rapidly but never reach eternal life. Daoist Qingde once mentioned to me that these systems are likely shackles forcibly placed on our Human Race by someone else."

"System shackles!"

Xiang Beifei was utterly amazed!

He suddenly realized that he seemed to have overlooked this point.

From the time he communicated with the Heavenly Dao and stepped into the Heavenly Connection realm, he understood that everyone’s system is actually a Heavenly Dao law, which is a Dao embryo.

Yet he never thought about the relationship between the system and the Ancestral Artifact.

Only with Luo Shanyou’s reminder did he realize.

The Human Race is supposed to cultivate Human Dao, but is guided by the system into cultivating various abilities, seeming to develop in many aspects, yet in reality, no one with a system can achieve eternal life—it’s a very peculiar constraint!

Luo Shanyou, currently three hundred thirty-three years old, cultivated with the system for two hundred eighty years, was at the late stage of Heavenly Connection, later came to the Edge Corner Airspace, and under Daoist Qingde’s guidance, severed the Dao and escaped the system, becoming an Inquiring Dao stage within just fifty years!

Without the system, Luo Shanyou seems to have broken free from these shackles.

If someone utilized the Ancestral Artifact to forcibly impose such a system and shackles onto the Human Race, preventing them from stepping into eternal life?

This possibility does exist.

Because an Ancestral Artifact can completely erase the Mustard Seed in Palm, it can naturally change the essence of a race through the Heavenly Dao Laws!

The talent of the Human Race far surpasses those so-called geniuses in the Heaven and Earth Ranking by several leagues. If someone doesn’t wish for the Human Race to rise, then using the Ancestral Artifact to forcibly impose some shackle on the Human Race is plausible.

"Did the Dao Palace use the Ancestral Artifact to give the Human Race the system?" Xiang Beifei asked.

If anyone put shackles on the Human Race, Xiang Beifei can only think of the Dao Palace.

But Luo Shanyou shook his head: "Daoist Qingde said it wasn’t."

"If not the Dao Palace, then who?" Xiang Beifei asked.

"This is also something Daoist Qingde is pondering. He mentioned there’s a mysterious force inside Common Valley, and perhaps the Dao Palace is merely driven by that force."

A mysterious force stronger than the Dao Palace?

What on earth could it be?

Xiang Beifei stared at the Wufeng and brick in his hands and then fell into contemplation.

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Luo Shanyou had everything sorted out and was preparing to go with Xiang Beifei to Common Valley. Naturally, their journey wouldn’t be without a wanderlust companion who loved to roam aimlessly.

Li Qianluo was very eager about this matter, probably out of boredom, always wanting to jump in.

"I’ve been there once, with my mentor. If you don’t take me, can you bear it?" Li Qianluo said.

Luo Shanyou was very surprised: "When did you go, A Li?"