Ye Chen's eyes suddenly blazed with intense light.
An invisible, formidable aura spread out, directly sealing off the area and isolating Mantai's energy fluctuations within it, preventing them from spreading. Otherwise, it would have alarmed the entire Thirteen Prefectures of Dongsheng.
"Such immense power."
Mantai was both shocked and overjoyed. He felt his entire body brimming with supreme, surging power, far greater than when he had advanced to the Great Ability realm. With a mere lift of his hand, he felt he could pluck stars from the heavens.
Originally, he was only at the first level of the Great Ability realm. But after the bloodline seal was shattered, it directly propelled him into the second level. One had to admit, this bloodline power was indeed overwhelmingly strong.
"Senior, this... what is this—"
Mantai looked at Ye Chen, the sheer intensity of this bloodline power leaving him incredulous.
Ye Chen's eyes returned to their profound depth. He patted Mantai's shoulder, suppressing the supreme, vigorous blood energy, and said, "I knew your Barbarian Tribe's origins were likely extraordinary, but I never imagined you were actually descendants of an imperial clan."
This outcome even surprised Ye Chen slightly.
Who would have thought that a small tribe he had stumbled into by chance was actually the descendants of an imperial clan.
Moreover, it puzzled him somewhat; for some reason, he felt a sense of familiarity with this bloodline fluctuation, as if he had sensed it in ages past.
"Descendants of an imperial clan?" Mantai was astonished. "Senior, are you referring to descendants of a Mythological Emperor?"
"Correct." Ye Chen nodded. "Your lineage are descendants of an ancient Great Emperor, inheriting the supreme bloodline power of that ancient Great Emperor. Furthermore, I observe your bloodline power is particularly dense; you are likely a direct descendant within the imperial clan. This is no simple matter."
After a brief moment of shock, Mantai, after all the chieftain of a major tribe, smiled wryly. "I had no idea. If not for Senior's revelation, I wouldn't even have known there was a bloodline seal within my body."
Boom—
At that moment, a misty, radiant light suddenly erupted from Mantai's brow. A vast amount of bloodline information surged forth, flooding into his sea of consciousness.
A full half-hour later, Mantai slowly regained clarity. With a complex expression, he sighed softly, "So that's how it is. Our Barbarian Tribe is not only descendants of an imperial clan, but specifically descendants of the Great Desolate Ancient Emperor's imperial clan. Moreover, we are survivors of the Desolate Ancient Hall, one of the Thirteen Ten Thousand Ancient Inheritances of yore."
"Senior, you were right. The bloodline seal on our lineage was indeed left behind by an Ancient Monarch, and it was personally imposed by an Ancient Monarch belonging to our own imperial clan."
Within the bloodline seal also existed various sealed pieces of information, relating to the history of this imperial bloodline.
"So you are descendants of the Great Desolate Ancient Emperor."
Ye Chen's interest was piqued, for the Great Desolate Ancient Emperor was also an ancient Great Emperor of the Body Refinement path, whose attainments in Body Refinement were peerless, rarely matched among the Supreme Ones of the myriad heavens. How could he not have heard of the Great Desolate Ancient Emperor's name? He said, "Tell me about the affairs of your imperial clan."
Although this was a secret of the Barbarian Tribe, even involving the imperial clan and one of the Thirteen Ten Thousand Ancient Inheritances of the past, facing the benefactor who had passed down salvation to the Barbarian Tribe, Mantai did not conceal anything.
Had Ye Chen not acted to refine the pill and help him, breaking the bloodline seal, he would likely have gone to his grave without knowing the truth.
Mantai began to explain slowly.
The Barbarian Tribe's predecessor was the Barbarian God Ancient Kingdom, but its even earlier origin was the Desolate Ancient Hall, one of the Thirteen Ten Thousand Ancient Inheritances, descendants of the Great Desolate Ancient Emperor from the Mythical Epoch, one of the immortal legacies that once dominated the Primordial Heaven Realm.
As the imperial clan of the Great Desolate Ancient Emperor from the Mythical Epoch, they were known as the Desolate Imperial Clan.
In this epoch, within the Primordial Heaven Realm, they, along with the other twelve imperial clans, jointly established the Thirteen Ten Thousand Ancient Inheritances that suppressed the cosmos.
This was the true origin of the Thirteen Ten Thousand Ancient Inheritances of the past—all were imperial clans from the Mythical Epoch, bearing the will of the Mythological Emperors.
"The Thirteen Ten Thousand Ancient Inheritances were both immortal overlord forces that dominated the Primordial Heaven Realm and also forces that guarded the Primordial Heaven Realm, inheriting the will of the Mythological Emperors. In this epoch, they await the arrival of one person," Mantai said with a sigh.
Regarding the layer that the Ten Thousand Ancient Inheritances were Mythological Imperial Clans, Ye Chen was unaware; even searching the souls of the three God Kings from Cangqiong Palace yielded nothing.
Clearly, a special restriction had been applied, preventing outsiders from sensing it. It was an absolute secret among the Ten Thousand Ancient Inheritances, not to be divulged.
"Awaiting one person?"
Ye Chen was slightly surprised.
The thirteen imperial clans arranged by the Mythological Emperors, guarding the Primordial Heaven Realm and passing down their legacy, but their fundamental purpose was to await one person.
Just who was this person, that required the Emperors to leave their imperial descendants to wait together?
Suddenly, Ye Chen thought of a key figure. Could it be him?
He immediately shook his head, thinking it unlikely. It was probably someone else.
"Correct." Mantai nodded. "Of course, exactly who that person is, I'm not too clear either. Although this information is recorded deep within the bloodline, understanding it requires advancing to a higher realm. But without a doubt, the existence of the Thirteen Ten Thousand Ancient Inheritances is to await that person's arrival, to inherit the will of the Mythological Emperors."
"Continue."
Mantai said, "The Thirteen Ten Thousand Ancient Inheritances all exist in another form as Mythological Imperial Clans, each possessing imperial heritage, even having Ancient Monarchs from the Mythical Epoch slumbering within. They are also interconnected branches of the same tree. Logically, there should be no external enemies; no one in the world would dare attack a Ten Thousand Ancient Inheritance."
"But in the Primordial Era, the Desolate Ancient Hall of our Desolate Imperial Clan faced a fatal threat."
"At that time, the ruler of the Primordial Heaven Realm in the Primordial Era, who is also now one of the Five Forbidden Zones—the ruler of the Kunxu Forbidden Zone—for some reason, suddenly attacked the Desolate Ancient Hall."
"Although the Kunxu Ruler was the ruler of the Heaven Realm, the Desolate Ancient Hall was, after all, the Desolate Imperial Clan, possessing true imperial heritage, even having the imperial weapon of our progenitor, the Great Desolate Ancient Emperor, suppressing it, and an Ancient Monarch in residence. Logically, even if the Heaven Realm ruler attacked, they should have been able to withstand it."
Ye Chen nodded. The heritage of an imperial clan was unfathomably deep, possessing imperial means. Even if a Forbidden Zone Ruler attacked, they wouldn't gain much advantage.
Yet at this point, Mantai's expression mixed with a thick layer of anger: "But the Kunxu Ruler of that time actually also brought a supreme Emperor's weapon, which countered the imperial weapon of our Desolate Ancient Hall, thereby breaching the Desolate Ancient Hall. In a single night, they erased the Desolate Ancient Hall from the Primordial Heaven Realm."
The Thirteen Ten Thousand Ancient Inheritances, being thirteen imperial clans, relied most on their supreme Emperor's weapons to suppress their heritage.
This imperial, immortal weapon was something even Forbidden Zone Rulers would hesitate to provoke; who in the world would dare face its sharp edge?
But if a Forbidden Zone Ruler also wielded a supreme Emperor's weapon, that was another matter entirely.
With their strongest supreme Emperor's weapon restrained by the opponent's supreme Emperor's weapon, even if the Desolate Ancient Hall also had slumbering Ancient Monarchs, it was futile—because the Kunxu Ruler was the former ruler of the Primordial Heaven Realm.