Chapter 982
The Hope of the Wind Clan
During the ancient times, the Wind Clan was wiped out, losing its imperial weapons and scriptures. The imperial array in the clan's secret territory was also completely destroyed, leaving only broken steles and stones.
Although the entire direct line perished, some branches remained and eventually re-established the Wind Clan.
However, the new Feng Clan is no longer the Feng Clan Imperial Clan of yesteryear. Its lineage has been broken, and without imperial weapons and imperial scriptures, the Feng Clan is no longer an imperial clan. It can only be considered an ancient family, the oldest of the ancient families.
However, such ancient families are naturally not comparable to imperial clans like the Jiang family and the Ji family, which possess imperial weapons and imperial scriptures. They are not even comparable to holy lands like the Yao Guang Holy Land, which only have imperial weapons but no imperial scriptures. In the end, imperial weapons and imperial scriptures are the true foundation. Losing them is like losing the true foundation, which can only slowly decline and eventually disappear into the long river of history.
The fact that the Feng Clan was able to produce another quasi-emperor ancestor, return to their original territory to rebuild, and continue their lineage for hundreds of thousands of years is a testament to the Feng Clan's resilience and tenacity. Otherwise, the Feng Clan would have disappeared long ago during the ancient era.
The reason why the Wind Clan is so tenacious and resilient may be because they all have a belief and hope in their hearts: to restore the glory of the Wind Clan in the beginning of time. They are unwilling to sink and decline like this, so generation after generation grit their teeth and continue to pass on their heritage.
After all, this spans hundreds of thousands of years, especially the hundreds of thousands of years of the ancient era, which was an incredibly turbulent, bloody, and dark age.
As is widely known, in the ancient times, the ancient emperors and the supreme beings of the various forbidden zones of life may not have gotten along well, or there may have been some conflicts, but they were still able to get by, and there was not much dark turmoil.
However, during the ancient era, the ancient emperors were all incredibly brave, relentlessly conquering the various forbidden zones of life. Even in the era without emperors, nine Great Accomplished Saint Bodies filled the void, fighting fiercely against the heavens, and one divine war and dark upheaval after another erupted.
In such a bloody and dark era, it is truly a miracle that the Wind Clan of Beidou was able to continue its lineage.
Because every dark upheaval is a bloodbath in the cosmos, and the Wind Clan, located in the Big Dipper, is at the eye of the storm; one wrong move and they could face annihilation.
For example, during the last Dark Turmoil, although Shen Pingkang, the Eternal Celestial Venerable, the Great Accomplished Holy Body, Shennong, and the Yellow Emperor quickly quelled the Dark Turmoil in a very short time, many ancient family lineages in the universe were inevitably wiped out.
Every period of darkness and turmoil is a major reshuffling of the universe; who lives and who dies sometimes really depends entirely on luck.
Clearly, the Wind Clan has been quite lucky. Although each Dark Turmoil may have resulted in heavy losses, it has ultimately managed to survive and continue its lineage. This is partly due to luck, but even more so due to the Wind Clan's own perseverance and resilience!
Thinking of this, even Zhou Yi couldn't help but be slightly moved. He looked at Feng Huang and sighed, "In the ancient times, there was frequent turmoil and darkness. It is truly remarkable that your Feng Clan has been able to continue to this day!"
Upon hearing this, Feng Huang was taken aback for a moment, then nodded and sighed, "Indeed, it was no easy feat!" After speaking, she turned her gaze to the remaining Bagua Imperial Array, now only broken stone tablets, and sighed with a complex tone, "In fact, the Feng Clan was able to survive one dark upheaval after another mainly thanks to the protection of this incomplete Imperial Array!"
"During the ancient times, every time a dark upheaval broke out, imperial clans like the Jiang family, the dynasties of Shenzhou, and holy lands like Yaochi were all protected by imperial weapons. During the dark upheaval, with the protection of imperial weapons, those supreme beings would naturally not deliberately make things difficult. After all, what the supreme beings wanted was the lifeblood of countless living beings in the universe to prolong their lives. As long as those imperial weapons did not actively obstruct them, the supreme beings would not care about the inheritance of the protection of imperial weapons. Unless there was some great grudge, the supreme beings would not waste their lifeblood to deal with a fully awakened imperial weapon!"
"Our Wind Clan has lost its Imperial Weapon. Without its protection, we live in constant fear and trepidation during every Dark Turmoil. Fortunately, we still have this incomplete Imperial Array to hide in. Although this incomplete array only possesses two or three tenths of its power, every time there is a Dark Turmoil, as long as we take refuge within it, we can successfully escape the disaster! Moreover..."
She suddenly looked at Zhou Yi, her expression complicated, and said, "Moreover, according to our clan's records, those supreme beings who launched the Dark Turmoil during the Ancient Era were actually deliberately avoiding the Big Dipper! Although the Dark Turmoil originated from the Big Dipper and was the center of the turmoil, in fact, the Big Dipper suffered the least damage in every Dark Turmoil! Do you know why?"
Upon hearing the question, Zhou Yi was taken aback at first, then suddenly realized and said, "It's the Path to Immortality? Because the Path to Immortality is in the Big Dipper. The Supreme Beings lie dormant in the Big Dipper, waiting for the Path to Immortality to open, so naturally they won't harm the Big Dipper! Otherwise, under these repeated dark upheavals, the Big Dipper should have been reduced to ashes long ago!"
Phoenix nodded solemnly and said, "Yes! It's for the path to immortality! To ensure that the path to immortality can be opened smoothly after countless ages, even in the most turbulent era of the Desolate Ancient Times, the era when the Void Emperor conquered various forbidden zones of life, those supreme beings only fought in the cosmic starry sky, and no one dared to really make a move in the Big Dipper!"
Zhou Yi sighed, "Because the Big Dipper is the hope for all the Supreme Beings to become immortals. If any Supreme Being dares to make a move in the Big Dipper, it would be tantamount to cutting off everyone's hope of becoming immortals. In that case, even without the intervention of the Ancient Emperor, none of the Supreme Beings would tolerate him!"
"Alas! To become an immortal! To become an immortal! It's a pity that none of the supreme beings expected that after waiting for countless ages, the path to immortality in the Big Dipper would finally open, only to end up like this! So many supreme beings died, yet not a single one truly passed through this path to immortality and entered the Immortal Realm to become an immortal!"
Upon hearing this, Fenghuang turned her gaze to the endless expanse of broken steles and stones, and said, "The Supreme Beings have their dreams of becoming immortals, but our Feng Clan dares not aspire to immortality. For the past tens of millions of years, what our Feng Clan has always wanted is to complete this incomplete Imperial Array and comprehend the Imperial Scripture from it, so that our Feng Clan may have the hope of restoring the glory of the beginning of the ancient times!"
"Unfortunately, for hundreds of thousands of years, no one has ever been able to truly complete this incomplete imperial formation. There are far too few people who can cultivate the Dao of Bagua and Zhouyi to the level of a quasi-emperor, so we have never seen any hope!"
As she spoke, her gaze instantly turned to Zhou Yi, a deep eagerness in her eyes, and she said, "Fellow Daoist, you cultivate the Dao of the Eight Trigrams and the Book of Changes, and you are already a Quasi-Emperor, having reached an extremely profound realm. Perhaps you have the potential to complete this incomplete Emperor Formation!"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Yi's gaze instantly deepened, and he fell silent in contemplation. (End of Chapter)