Family Management Game In Immortal Continent Chapter 829 - 824: Mahayana Realm

The frantic thrashing of Zhao Tingyu caused the expressions of the resurrected Zhao Clan members to shift dramatically.

Li Wei’s declaration seemed to strike a forbidden chord, not only for Zhao Tingyu but for the entire Zhao lineage.

Li Yaowen shifted her gaze toward Zhao Feimeng.

Having experienced reincarnation through clones more than three hundred times, she held a profound comprehension of the soul and the nature of new life.

Noticing Zhao Feimeng’s shifting, evasive eyes, she spoke with a chilling tone:

"With every death you suffer, it is not merely your physical form that is destroyed, but your soul as well."

"That is impossible. We are living. We still hold... we still hold our memories."

Fairy Bai’s attempt at a rebuttal grew increasingly faint, until her focus shattered and her eyes became vacant.

"Impossible... it cannot be!"

"Thump! Thump! Thump!" The heavy rhythm of the Old Ancestor echoed.

It was as if she had been wiped clean of everything from one hundred and sixty thousand years ago; forty thousand years of time had simply vanished from her mind.

This void had become a sacred taboo within her heart.

No matter how desperately she reached into her past, those lost forty millennia remained unreachable.

The only thing she could recall was that heartbeat, just as she had remembered it once before.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

The Old Ancestor’s heartbeat thundered.

That sound marked her first encounter with the Old Ancestor, the very moment her destiny was irrevocably altered.

Many members of the Zhao Clan gripped their heads in torment, trying in vain to recover their vanished past.

Yet, their memories were all frozen at the horrific instant thousands of Devils stormed the Zhao Clan's ancestral lands!

"Your Old Ancestor has the power to recreate your bodies, but he is incapable of resurrecting your souls."

Li Wei narrowed his eyes, observing the Zhao clansmen whose faces had turned a deathly pale.

In the world he came from, there was a technology called genetic cloning.

From the moment these individuals returned from death—coupled with Li Dalong’s finding that the Underworld had no record of their reincarnation and that their revival felt "wrong"—Li Wei had developed his theory.

"You only retain your most basic instincts," Li Wei declared, "but the original 'you' perished a long time ago."

"No, no, no, that’s a lie!!!"

Zhao Tingyu’s struggles became even more frantic.

"The Old Ancestor wields limitless power!

He can guide our souls through the cycle of reincarnation!

It is only because so much time has passed that we cannot recall the events from one hundred and sixty thousand years ago, but we remember every detail of our lives after our resurrections!"

Li Wei, however, offered no reply.

Zhao Tingyu followed Li Wei’s line of sight, looking toward... Zhao Feimeng, standing atop the massive heart!

"Souls cannot be brought back, but memories... those can be implanted."

"Argh! My head! It hurts!!!"

A scream of pure agony pierced the air.

From within that colossal heart, Zhao Qingguang ripped through the gore and muscle, collapsing to the ground while clutching his skull in pain.

A moment later, he looked up at Zhao Feimeng, his expression one of total confusion.

The heart continued its rhythm, the beats growing more violent by the second.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

This time, a mocking sneer appeared on Li Wei’s face.

The heart was broadcasting a command to its kin: "Kill them! Kill them all!"

"Be silent, you monster!"

A crimson light surged in Zhao Feimeng’s eyes as she sat upon the heart, suddenly driving her fist into the pulsing flesh beneath her.

At that moment.

Zhao Qingguang remained on his knees, staring up at the Old Ancestor with a bewildered gaze.

However, the regret he had previously shown was gone.

He remembered now.

He remembered everything!

"Qingguang, do you still refuse to wake up?"

As Zhao Feimeng sighed, Zhao Qingguang’s very being shuddered.

His voice resonated clearly across the entire Immortal Domain.

"One hundred and sixty thousand years ago, I was among the few who survived the family's fall.

The Old Ancestor saved all of you, but once you were revived, everything from before was gone from your minds.

I began to feel that something was deeply wrong.

You... were no longer the people I knew."

"Only later did the truth dawn on me: the Old Ancestor had succeeded in his goal.

He had consumed the Destiny of those Devils, pushing his own Destiny to its absolute zenith.

But Destiny alone wasn't enough to push him into the Mahayana Realm."

"However, that Destiny gave him the power to resurrect you.

Blood food... that is what you all became.

And I... I was the one who butchered you to provide nourishment for the Old Ancestor."

"From that day on, family members would disappear, only to be brought back again.

We gathered more Destiny, slaughtered the clansmen to keep the Old Ancestor alive, and then revived them once more...

The cycle never ended, all so the Old Ancestor could one day reach the Mahayana Realm."

The sky turned black as ink, and a freezing wind cut through to the bone.

Everyone, whether inside or outside the Immortal Domain, felt a wave of horror wash over them.

"Finally, I couldn't take it anymore.

Without the Old Ancestor's knowledge, I confessed everything to the Clan Elders."

"You placed a seal on the Old Ancestor."

"But back then, the clan was split."

He turned his eyes toward Zhao Buqun, Zhao Jingmiao, and Fairy Bai.

"You wanted him dead.

Only his death could end the nightmare of the Old Ancestor’s dominion over our clan."

"How can this be? How?!!"

Zhao Buqun’s face drained of color.

Zhao Qingguang gave a sorrowful smile.

"You have dedicated your lives to protecting this clan.

That duty is etched into your very bones, a trait that didn't vanish even after rebirth.

You likely haven't realized it, but in one hundred and sixty thousand years, you haven't moved a single step outside the Immortal Domain."

"Because in the end, you were defeated.

After the seal was placed, you were killed by their hands."

Zhao Qingguang looked at Zhao Tingyu, who was pinned by Li Wei.

He looked at Zhao Wan’er, being held by her hair by Li Yaozu.

Finally, he looked at Zhao Feimeng, who sat upon the heart with a look of melancholy.

"The fact that three of our clan handle internal matters and three handle external ones is a trait in your blood.

Yet, it is also a memory that Ancestor Feimeng forced into your minds."

Zhao Qingguang began to cry.

"How did we fall so low? How?!!

Ancestor Feimeng believed that since the Old Ancestor was sealed, killing him was a waste of potential.

She thought it better to use him to keep making our clan stronger.

She won; she was the ultimate victor.

Her talent lies in weaving illusions and twisting the human heart.

She doesn't just control enemies; she controls all of you."

"Ancestor Wan was old and at death's door.

When she was brought back from the Old Ancestor’s Divine Womb, her mind had already been rewritten.

Even when Ancestor Tingyu discovered the truth, it was too late; he couldn't stand against Ancestor Feimeng."

"But you overlooked one person."

With tears falling, Zhao Qingguang stood up. "Me!"

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

The heart’s beating grew violent.

Both the observers from the Azure Cloud Region and the Zhao clansmen watched Zhao Qingguang in terror.

His visage was twisted and grotesque; despite the clear pain he was in, he moved forward one step at a time.

"You sealed the Old Ancestor and used him like a tool.

He didn't see that coming, nor did he expect my betrayal.

However... I never truly left his grasp.

I am his ultimate hidden card."

"I am the last original member of the family.

Even through countless rebirths, my soul was kept whole; it still exists.

And that soul was marked by him one hundred and sixty thousand years ago.

The Old Ancestor has been waiting for his moment."

"Years ago, when the Human Emperor killed you, that was a chance.

But there wasn't enough flesh and blood then to fuel his breakthrough to the Mahayana Realm."

"Now, with the world in chaos, there is no one left to stop him. That is why..."

"I sought out the Azure Cloud Prefecture. I made sure to find the Azure Cloud Li Clan!"