When it came to the so-called Blood of Original Sin and Primordial Blood, along with Radiance Blood and Darkness Blood, including Divine Saint Blood and Evil Blood, and other such legendary, mysterious, and unknown existences, Gu Qingfeng had always been utterly confused.
It wasn't because his memory was poor, but because these bloodlines were all legendary things, most of which had already vanished. Forget seeing them, even people who had heard of them were probably few and far between.
Gu Qingfeng had heard of them, and precisely because he had heard of them, he was utterly confused.
Because the versions he had heard were varied and sundry, all sorts of things.
Some said the Blood of Original Sin, Radiance Blood, Darkness Blood, and even Divine Saint and Evil Blood were all Primordial Blood.
Later, he heard that all bloodlines between heaven and earth originated from Primordial Blood and the Blood of Original Sin.
It was just that later, both Primordial Blood and the Blood of Original Sin gave birth to many different bloodlines.
For example, Primordial Blood gave birth to Divine Saint Blood and Radiance Blood, while the Blood of Original Sin gave birth to Evil Blood and Darkness Blood.
Later still, Divine Saint Blood and Radiance Blood gave birth to other bloodlines. The legendary divine beasts guarding the four directions of heaven and earth—the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and Vermilion Bird—were said to have been born from Divine Saint Blood and Radiance Blood.
And the legendary Four Fiends that brought chaos to the eight wastelands of heaven and earth—Taotie, Hundun, Qiongqi, and Taowu—were said to have been born from Evil and Darkness Blood.
Of course.
These legends were all things he had heard. Where he heard them, and who said them, Gu Qingfeng had also forgotten. Because he had heard too many versions, even now he couldn't distinguish the exact situation between Original Sin, Primordial, Radiance, Darkness, Divine Saint, and Evil bloodlines.
Having lived this long, aside from the Blood of Original Sin, he had never seen any of the others—Radiance Blood, Darkness Blood, Divine Saint Blood, or Evil Blood.
Darkness Blood and Evil Blood were somewhat better. Though he hadn't seen them, he had heard some things. In the Ancient Era, the Primordial Era, and even the Great Antiquity Era, these two bloodlines had existed and left behind many legends.
But Radiance Blood and Divine Saint Blood seemed to have truly vanished, never appearing.
Regarding this, Gu Qingfeng had also heard something, and it was from the memories of Patriarch Lin Chi.
It was said that Radiance Blood and Divine Saint Blood countered the Blood of Original Sin. The Three Thousand Great Dao had also once tried to use Divine Saint and Radiance Blood to eradicate the Blood of Original Sin.
Somehow, this news spread, and those powerful beings of the Blood of Original Sin began frantically slaughtering those with Divine Saint and Radiance Blood, killing them on sight. While they didn't completely exterminate these two bloodlines, they slaughtered them to the point where they dared not show their faces.
In Patriarch Lin Chi's memories, the Thirty-Six Grotto-Heavens and Seventy-Two Blessed Lands were not only secretly cultivating those with the Blood of Original Sin, but also secretly cultivating those with Divine Saint Blood and Radiance Blood. The same was true for Above the Nine Heavens. But no one dared to speak of it openly, all fearing to be targeted and eradicated by the powerful beings of the Blood of Original Sin.
Whether Divine Saint Blood and Radiance Blood truly countered the Blood of Original Sin, Gu Qingfeng didn't know. Patriarch Lin Chi's memories also contained no definitive information on this matter. He only knew that the saying 'Divine Saint and Radiance counter Original Sin' had been passed down from the Desolate Antiquity Era. It seemed that during the Desolate Antiquity Era, Original Sin and Divine Saint/Radiance Blood had engaged in an earth-shattering battle.
Alas.
Patriarch Lin Chi's memories contained little about the Desolate Antiquity Era, and most of that was hearsay from the seniors of Dan Ding Valley. Whether it was true or not, Patriarch Lin Chi himself didn't know, and naturally, Gu Qingfeng didn't know either.
He could only sigh that far too many secrets were buried in the Desolate Antiquity Era. It felt to him as if everything had been buried with the end of that era. Otherwise, the historical records of the Great Wilderness wouldn't only begin from the Great Antiquity Era.
It seemed that whether seeking to understand Original Sin or the Era Without Dao, one must first understand the Desolate Antiquity Era.
After drinking a cup of wine, Gu Qingfeng glanced at the Black Pig Monster King sitting obediently across from him and asked, "And then?"
This question rather baffled the Black Pig Monster King. "And then what?"
"What else happened regarding that ruin that appeared in the Great Wilderness?"
"There's nothing else! This humble one only knows this much, truly!"
Gu Qingfeng gave an "Oh" and said no more. He just reclined in that master's chair, legs crossed, eyes slightly closed as if in deep thought.
Across from him.
The Black Pig Monster King looked quite pitiful. Already gravely wounded, his body was covered in bloody wounds, his spiritual power nearly exhausted, and he was utterly weak. He just stood there obediently, not daring to speak too much or move.
After another while, Gu Qingfeng opened his eyes, shifted his posture, leaning to one side and tilting his head slightly as he asked, "Right, there's one more thing this lord wants to ask you."
"What does Lord Gu wish to ask?"
"Back outside earlier, that last desperate counterattack you unleashed... that was Original Sin Power, wasn't it?"
Hearing Gu Qingfeng mention the words 'Original Sin', the Black Pig Monster King's heart sank sharply, and his entire body tensed up.
Legend had it, as recorded in the Book of Fate: When Original Sin finds its True Lord, the Great Dao will fall, the Present Ancient Era will end, heaven and earth will be reborn, and the Era Without Dao will begin...
In other words, only the True Lord of Original Sin could open the Era Without Dao.
Ever since this news spread, across the heavens and the earth, throughout past and present, the Myriad Heavens and Worlds had secretly begun a war of contention over Original Sin.
Those without Original Sin sought to seize it.
Those with Original Sin sought to deepen it.
Those with deep Original Sin sought to make it deeper still.
After all, everyone wanted to become that True Lord of Original Sin recorded in the Book of Fate.
Even if one couldn't become the True Lord of Original Sin in the end, at least they wouldn't miss the Era Without Dao by not being a person of Original Sin.
The Black Pig Monster King was a prime example.
He was not an innate person of Original Sin. His Original Sin was all seized, including the very fleshly body he occupied at this moment, which he had taken over from an innate person of Original Sin.
Therefore, he understood better than anyone how brutal the mutual contention among people of Original Sin could be.
Hearing Gu Qingfeng mention Original Sin, he instinctively grew cautious, thinking Gu Qingfeng intended to seize his Original Sin. But upon second thought, he relaxed his guard. In his view, it was unlikely Gu Qingfeng would want his Original Sin.
The reason was simple: Gu Qingfeng would look down on it.
He clearly knew that Gu Qingfeng was a veritable innate person of Original Sin, and one of the foremost among them in all heaven and earth.
If Original Sin were truly a kind of bloodline, Gu Qingfeng possessed the orthodox, pure bloodline. His own kind of seized, acquired Original Sin was like a counterfeit, an impure bloodline. Though it was still Original Sin, compared to the orthodox innate Original Sin, the gap wasn't just a little bit.
If Gu Qingfeng seized his impure Original Sin, his orthodox, pure Original Sin might even become contaminated.
Most importantly, Gu Qingfeng's orthodox Original Sin was exceptionally profound. He certainly didn't lack the Black Pig Monster King's paltry bit of impure Original Sin.
In the Black Pig Monster King's mind, forget seizing it—even if he offered his Original Sin to Gu Qingfeng as a gift, Gu Qingfeng probably wouldn't want it.