God of Pets Chapter 991: Lord of the Yellow Springs

"Old Qin, at the Grand Falls of San Chuan, who saved you when you were in danger?" The woman lay half-reclined on the cold jade bed, resting her hand on her cheek, and spoke to Qin Beige with a faint tone.

King of Qin was slightly shocked upon hearing this. Besides King of Du, there should be no one else who knew about this matter.

After speaking, the woman ignored him and turned to King of Shang, saying, "A batch of goods from Xuan Shang were lost in the northern border. Who helped you retrieve those goods in the end?"

"You..." King of Shang's pupils constricted.

Before the Shang Family had risen to power, they were set up to transport a batch of goods to the northern border, only for the goods to disappear mid-journey, forcing them to compensate the owner. It was the most desperate time for the Shang Family, nearly leading them to ruin.

If not for the intervention of a benefactor during that crisis, the Shang Family would not have had the resources to support King of Shang, and King of Shang would not have existed.

Again, the woman paid him no mind and looked toward King of Jiang, saying, "On the Cross Goose Mountain, with whom did you play chess for three days and nights without determining a winner, only to lose by a single move in the end?"

King of Jiang was also moved, looking at the woman with disbelief.

He was a lover of chess and had superior skills. Since he mastered the game, there were fewer than four people in the world who could play against him, and his most crushing defeat was on the Cross Goose Mountain.

King of Jiang had never mentioned this to anyone, not out of fear of embarrassment, but because it was due to that very game that he came to understand the Dao, eventually achieving the position of Celestial King.

One could say that without that game, there would be no subsequent King of Jiang.

The woman's gaze swept over the faces of the Celestial Kings, and with each one she looked at, she spoke of an event that moved them deeply.

The events she mentioned were not all the works of King of Du, yet everyone understood her meaning now — those people were all her incarnations.

Thinking carefully, it turned out that this woman played a crucial role on the path where every Celestial King grew.

"Who exactly are you?" King of Feng stared at the woman and asked.

"Does it matter who I am? What's important is that at that time, you all once had a belief, wanting to save all living beings in the world, to rescue humanity from the endless cycle of reincarnation, so that humans are no longer the weakest species, no longer the weak who can be trampled on, to break all injustices in the world."

The woman swept her cold gaze across the faces of the Celestial Kings: "But what are you doing now? Do you know that by destroying Sky City, you are breaking the balance between the Celestial Secret Realm and the Earth Secret Realm? With the Celestial Secret Realm's Primordial Energy no longer flowing into the Earth Secret Realm, the Primordial Energy in the Earth Secret Realm will diminish, eventually becoming a barren land with no Primordial Energy, and humanity will never tread the path of cultivation again."

"We know this would be the result, but if we don't destroy Sky City, the Primordial Energy it transports to the Earth Secret Realm carries Exhaustion Energy, which will contaminate the Earth Secret Realm, and the eventual outcome will be even worse. If our race perishes, what difference does it make if we can cultivate or not?" King of Feng said, expressing the helplessness in everyone's heart.

"Who told you that Exhaustion Energy would contaminate the Earth Secret Realm?" The woman's words left everyone stunned.

King of Feng was dazed for a moment, then said, "Isn't it so? We can all feel that the energy from the Yellow Springs River and the Nether Sea is very similar to the Exhaustion Energy in the Tower of the Sky. They should originate from the same source and have a severe impact on humanity. This is Death Energy; if it's not pollution, then what is it?"

The woman responded with contempt: "You're not wrong; Exhaustion Energy indeed has a severe impact on humanity and does carry the Attribute of Death, but that doesn't mean it is absolutely erroneous. Humanity and the Earth Secret Spirit have been able to propagate on the Earth for generations, evolving continually, advancing towards higher levels because of the existence of Exhaustion Energy."

"The old will decay and exhaust, turning into nutrients to nurture the new, allowing the new to grow more robust. Birth, aging, sickness, and death are the rules of this world; breaking this rule is the greatest pollution to the world."

"Exhaustion is the ultimate destination of all life, and it's the most beautiful Nirvana of the world," the woman sighed softly: "The Sky Secret Spirit should also be like the Earth Secret Spirit and humanity, ending its life in Exhaustion and Nurturing a new life in its Nirvana. But someone disrupted this rule, shielding the Exhaustion Energy outside, attempting to create an ageless, immortal world."

"But such actions are akin to opposing the entire world, and will inevitably suffer the world's backlash. The shielded Exhaustion Energy accumulates more and more, even that presence cannot continue to shield it, and the accumulation of Exhaustion Energy has turned many areas into ones where life cannot exist — known as the Exhaustion Area."

"To maintain this ageless, immortal world, that presence only introduced Exhaustion Energy into the Earth Secret Realm through Sky City, treating the Earth Secret Realm as a waste dump, forming the Yellow Springs River and the Nether Sea."

"Yet that presence did not expect that life would flourish amidst death. The introduction of Exhaustion Energy led the Earth Secret Realm, which originally had almost no high-level life, to produce high-intelligence life rapidly advancing."

"The rapid evolution of those lives caused that presence, who was continuously monitoring the Earth Secret Realm, to become apprehensive. Whenever life in the Earth Secret Realm evolved to a certain extent, that presence would annihilate it, conducting a life cleanse."

"Despite the attempts to cleanse, there's no way to completely exterminate the life of the Earth Secret Realm because the inexhaustible Exhaustion Energy is like the power of Nirvana, ceaselessly nurturing new life in the Earth Secret Realm."

"But as Exhaustion Energy in the Earth Secret Realm increased, if life from the Celestial Secret Realm stayed long in the Earth Secret Realm, it would be infected by Exhaustion Energy, losing their Undying Body. Therefore, that presence could only periodically clear the Earth Secret Realm and couldn't stay there continuously; otherwise, they would lose their Immortal Body."

"Yellow Springs River is never a river of pollution, but rather the mother river for both humans and the Earth Secret Spirit. Because of the existence of the Nether Sea, the excess Exhaustion Energy could accumulate and sediment, continuously providing vitality for the evolution of the Earth Secret Realm. The cost is that humans and the Earth Secret Spirit will not have ageless, immortal bodies and will be reborn in Exhaustion, returning their vitality to the cosmic Earth..."

Everyone's expressions changed unpredictably as they listened; this should be the woman of King of Du. Her words were entirely contrary to the information Chen Guan brought back, leaving people unsure of whom to believe.

"Who exactly are you? What evidence is there for what you've said?" Xiu Jie Ming asked solemnly.

"I am named Du, you can call me King of Du, or another of my names... Netherworld Emperor... the master of Netherworld City beneath the Yellow Springs River..." the woman said calmly.