The upper realm at this time.
A group of old men in tattered clothes were knocked to the ground by the backlash, covering their hearts and spitting out blood.
“How is it possible? How could the Nuwa Stone have such a great... puff...power? It clearly..." The Ning family head, who used to have a square face and a big belly, is now as thin as a dried monkey. Before he could finish his words, he spat out a large mouthful of blood.
The head of the Ye family, who was full of vigor and vitality earlier, is now an old man with half-white hair and a face full of traces of vicissitudes.
The head of the Ye family had a gloomy face and pounded the ground angrily, with blood oozing from his skinny arms.
"It's over, everything is over," Patriarch Ye glared at Patriarch Ning fiercely, gritting his teeth and saying, "Ning Yuanzhi, why don't you just die? It's all your fault. It's all your fault for proposing the idea of breaking the sky. It's all your fault for making me wait for this crap upper realm. So many good seedlings in my clan, thousands of years of savings in my clan, and my cultivation, were all destroyed by you."
By the end of his speech, Patriarch Ye's eyes were already wet and his face was full of regret.
After hearing this, the other family heads no longer had the energy to say anything. They just hung their heads, looking lifeless.
Even the head of the Ning family had nothing to refute. If he had known that the so-called upper realm was like this, he would never have come up with such a stupid idea.
But who would have thought that ascension and the ladder to immortality were both scams
When it comes down to it, this matter has to start from the time when the sky was broken.
Thousands of years ago, Patriarch Ning and Patriarch Ye and others colluded with Patriarch Feng, who was on good terms with Patriarch Qu, and learned about the Nuwa Stone. They instantly decided not to waste such a good thing and to take away the vitality of the world and the Nuwa Stone as well.
As for the head of the Qu family and others who wanted to stop them, they also set their souls to return to the earth.
With the help of Patriarch Feng, everything was done very properly and beautifully. Patriarch Qu and others died in the patriarch's hall, and Patriarch Ning and others also got what they wanted.
Although they found out that the Nuwa Stone they got was fake, they no longer cared about being tricked by the head of the Qu family.
They took away the best disciples of their respective clans, thousands of years of savings of their respective clans, the vitality stolen from this world, and the powerful skills of their respective clans. They thought that after reaching the upper realm, they could continue to be the head of their clan who had the final say, and they would become a powerful force in the upper realm, just like they had been before...
They envision a bright future.
However, the result was exactly the opposite.
After they had used all their strength to break through the sky, they climbed up to the upper world along the ladder that was about to break. They thought it was an upper world with abundant spiritual energy, an upper world full of natural treasures, and an upper world of paradise, but in fact it was a dead world.
The dead world means that this world has no spiritual energy and no living creatures exist. The entire world is completely dead.
However, it is not entirely true to say that it is a world of death, because this world still has seven old monsters who have lived for who knows how long and whose cultivation is so powerful that it is terrifying.
These old monsters looked like humans, but they were all terribly skinny, with long, messy and dirty hair, fingernails half a meter long, and tattered clothes, with some parts of their clothes even exposed, as if they had no time to take care of themselves.
After seeing so many fat sheep coming to their doorstep, the old monsters smelled the scent of food and surrounded them with shining eyes.
The heads of several families were well-informed and took precautions when they saw that the situation was not right.
And those younger ones who had no reaction until their death became the best food for the old monsters.
The old monsters raised their hands and grabbed a youngster. Their long nails gently scratched the youngsters' necks, and bright red blood flowed out. They kept sucking the spiritual energy from the youngsters.
The younger ones' terrified screams and even their weak and helpless struggles made the old monsters laugh and they found it very funny.
This scene was like a nightmare, frightening all the people from the underworld.
However, this was just the beginning. After sucking the blood of a dozen youngsters, these old monsters used a strange net to catch them all together, and then kept them in a vacant land.
No matter how they begged for mercy or tried to reason, these old monsters seemed to be unable to understand what people were saying and ignored them at all.
The old monsters just treat them as food, and at that time every day, several old monsters will take turns to pick the "lucky ones", and many people disappear every day.
These people who broke through the sky from the lower world are becoming fewer and fewer.
Everyone knew that those disciples who had lost their whereabouts had all entered the mouths of the old monsters, filling the stomach of these old monsters who had been hungry for who knows how long.
Everyone was filled with fear, regret and panic, but in front of the powerful old monsters, they had no right to choose at all.
Only then did the family heads react.
No wonder there was no contact with the ancestors after they ascended, and some of the soul lamps left in the lower world were extinguished. It turned out that it was not because the ancestors became immortals and left their bodies, but because after they ascended to this world, they entered the mouths of these old monsters.
The so-called ladder to heaven and ascension are all scams, designed to trick the ignorant people in the lower world into becoming food for the old monsters.
It was obvious that it wouldn't be long before the damn ladder to immortality would break and the scam would be automatically revealed.
But they actually fell into the trap with their entire families.
At this time, the heads of the families were really regretting it.
After seeing the good talents in the clan die one by one and all the treasures around them being looted by the old monster, the family heads finally reached a consensus.
They have to find a way to save themselves.
They have to escape from this world.
So when an old monster chose Patriarch Ye, he yelled at the old monster, "Don't eat me, I have a way to get you out of here."
In order to survive, even if we have to let these old monsters go to the underworld, so what
Anyway, there are so many people in the underworld, and these old monsters can never eat them all.
This is something that several family heads agree on.
Therefore, the thousand-year catastrophe in the lower world that the head of the Qi family had mentioned, the thin piece of sky that had once been broken, and the mirror of reincarnation that had fallen into the lower world, became the biggest bargaining chips in the hands of the family heads.
And the old monsters were indeed moved.
A momentary desire for food cannot compare to a whole world of food.
In the end, out of the more than 2,000 cultivators who went to the upper realm, only a dozen or so family heads were left.
And they are the people that the old monsters deliberately left behind to break the boundary.
In order to let them break through the boundary, the old monster endured for a thousand years.
Unfortunately, they have failed now.
(End of this chapter)