Chapter 1139 - 1139 When Strength Doesn't Match Ambition (1)
1139 When Strength Doesn’t Match Ambition (1)
“The Sima Grotto-Heaven was destroyed?” Zhou Shu said in surprise.
After he returned from ten thousand years ago, although he had once entered Zhang Qiyun’s dream and gained some understanding of the current situation, Zhang Qiyun’s status was too low after all. He wasn’t qualified to come into contact with matters related to the Grotto-Heavens.
So only now did Zhou Shu know that the Sima Grotto-Heaven had been destroyed.
The Sima Grotto-Heaven was one of the Grotto-Heavens that he had a good impression of.
The superintendent of the Sima Grotto-Heaven, Zheng Chengan, had once looted the storehouse of the Xu Ling Grotto-heaven with Zhou Shu.
Moreover, back then, when the Ten Nations retreated to the Grotto-Heavens, the Sima Grotto-Heaven had accepted Great Xia.
Unexpectedly, the Sima Grotto-Heaven had been destroyed in the flames of war!
But thinking about it, the way the Sima Grotto-Heaven handled things was different from the Xu Ling Grotto-Heaven and Shang Qiuzi’s. It was reasonable for them to be destroyed.
In the eyes of Shang Qiuzi and the others, the Sima Grotto-Heaven was also an anomaly!
“Is Zheng Chengan alive?” Although Zhou Shu had already guessed the outcome, he still asked.
“Zheng Chengan died in battle before the Sima Grotto-Heaven was destroyed,” Meng Bai said. “He killed a Demon Emperor of the Demon Realm. He died a worthy death.
“It’s not just him. The people of the Sima Grotto-Heaven’s Zheng family were all unyielding. In that battle, countless of them died in battle, but not a single one of them retreated half a step.”
Meng Bai said emotionally, “Unfortunately, good people don’t live long.”
Almost all of the heroic Sima Grotto-Heaven had died in battle, but the villainous Tang Qianluo had survived until now.
The only thing worth rejoicing about now was that good and evil would be repaid in the end.
“Where’s Ji Lutian? I remember that he should have been with Zheng Chengan…” Zhou Shu asked.
Back then, when he returned to ancient times, Ji Lutian had already started to promote his Divine Dao. At the time, Zheng Chengan and the others had been his hardcore supporters.
Zheng Chengan was dead, but what about Ji Lutian?
Zhou Shu thought about the Ji Lutian who had returned to ancient times with him.
He still didn’t know what the relationship between the two Ji Lutians was.
“Ji Lutian also died in battle with Zheng Chengan.” Meng Bai gave an answer that Zhou Shu didn’t expect.
“Ji Lutian is dead?” Zhou Shu frowned.
If Ji Lutian was dead, what was going on with the Ji Lutian who had returned to ancient times with him?
Meng Bai’s tone became hesitant. “I guess he’s dead.”
“What do you mean?” Zhou Shu asked.
“Ji Lutian indeed died in battle with Zheng Chengan. Before he died, he even killed a Demon Emperor of the Demon Realm. Otherwise, there would be thirteen Demon Emperors in the Demon Realm now,” Meng Bai said.
“Oh right, a Demon Emperor is equivalent to a Grotto-Heaven Master of our human race. The Demon Emperor Ji Lutian fought to the death was also the only Demon Emperor killed by the human race in the battle back then.
“At the time, Ji Lutian and the other party perished together. But something strange happened later.”
Meng Bai seemed to be recalling something. “After Ji Lutian died, his corpse turned into a baby.”
“He turned into a baby?” Zhou Shu looked shocked.
“That’s right. He became a baby, a living baby,” Meng Bai said seriously.
“At the time, only a few of us saw it. Later, we secretly gave that baby to someone to raise. When he grew up, he was exactly like Ji Lutian, so we simply named him Ji Lutian.
“But he couldn’t remember anything about the past. It’s as if he became a different person. Even his personality was completely different.
“A few years ago, he suddenly disappeared. We searched for a long time, but we couldn’t find any trace of him.”
Meng Bai sighed.
Ji Lutian suddenly disappeared without any warning like Zhou Shu back then.
Now that Zhou Shu was back, he wondered if Ji Lutian would suddenly return one day.
Zhou Shu fell into deep thought. If he wasn’t wrong, the Ji Lutian who had returned to ancient times with him was this new Ji Lutian.
He didn’t know why he had appeared more than a hundred years ago and then returned to ancient times with him.
Ji Lutian lived from ten thousand years ago to the future? This doesn’t seem possible! Zhou Shu looked thoughtful.
After Ji Lutian died, he turned into a baby and grew up again. Perhaps something happened to him that he didn’t know about.
He wondered if he would ever see him again.
Zhou Shu sighed. Ji Lutian’s choice to stay in the past was beyond his expectations.
But he respected Ji Lutian’s choice. He just hoped that he could see him again one day.
It was just like how he really wanted to see Bai Qianqian again.
Ten thousand years ago, in order to save him, Bai Qianqian had taken an attack from an enemy from beyond the heavens. In the end, her body had shattered, leaving only her soul body.
More than a hundred years ago, when he saw Bai Qianqian in the Demon Realm Ancestral Court, he didn’t know her, but she should know him.
Back then, she had generously lent him the Tiger Soul Saber and even let him stay in the Demon Realm Ancestral Court to forge. At the time, she should have known him.
Zhou Shu’s heart ached. He didn’t know how Bai Qianqian had endured surviving from ancient times to the present, nor did he know how she had resisted the urge to recognize him.
At that time, if Bai Qianqian had acknowledged him, he would probably have treated her as a lunatic.
Later, he gave her a Reincarnation Pill to help her reconstruct her body.
Then she left the Demon Realm Ancestral Court and disappeared.