The Romance of the Immortal Cauldron

"Why are there so many spirit tablets?" Matthew asked after taking a deep breath.

Within the light curtain, every where in sight was filled with densely packed spirit tablets.

There were so many that Matthew couldn't even count how many there were.

Moreover, each spirit tablet has a different name written on it.

These spirit tablets should be the members of the Mangcang tribe.

"This happened a long time ago. It can be said to be a disaster. Didn't I say before that humans are the most greedy?"

"This is how it happened. It happened when the previous clan leader was in power. He wanted very much to find the old master at that time."

"But he made a very wrong decision, which was to destroy those problematic restrictions, allowing Dengtian Lingdao to frequently appear in various places in the human world."

"It is undeniable that his starting point is good. There is an old saying that goes, "What goes up must come down."

"He was so eager to find the old master because there was a civil strife within the Mangcang tribe at that time. After seeing the situation in the human world, some members of the tribe no longer wanted to be trapped on the island for the rest of their lives. They wanted to leave Dengtian Lingdao."

The old man in white exhaled lightly and spoke slowly.

Matthew knew that what was coming next was the crux of the matter, so he did not interrupt the old man in white and just listened silently.

"The civil unrest was not very serious at the time and was still within control. The previous clan leader made the decision out of helplessness, fearing that the situation would become uncontrollable."

"But he himself did not expect that it was precisely because of his actions that the Mangcang tribe was almost wiped out."

The old man in white took a deep breath and continued speaking without pausing for long.

"At that time, there was an organization in the human world called the Black Evil Sect. They controlled many places in the human world and knew many secrets that ordinary cultivators did not know."

"In order to find the old master, the previous clan leader placed his hopes on the Black Evil Sect and took the initiative to contact the Black Evil Sect."

"In the beginning, the cooperation with the Black Evil Cult was quite good. They provided a lot of information and also helped us find the old master."

"But the Black Evil Cult has long harbored ulterior motives. They don't really want to help us find our old master. Their real purpose is to occupy the Dengtian Spiritual Island!"

"When the previous clan leader discovered the true intentions of the Black Evil Cult, it was already over."

"Those tribesmen who originally wanted to leave Dengtian Lingdao finally took action under the instigation of the Black Evil Sect..."

Things became simple afterwards. Although Matthew did not see the situation with his own eyes, he was able to guess some general ideas.

At the critical moment when the Mangcang tribe was in internal turmoil and fighting each other, the Black Evil Sect took action.

Faced with the sudden attack from the Black Evil Sect, the Mang Cang Clan, who were fighting each other, had almost no ability to resist.

The civil strife started because they were of the same ethnicity and had lived together for so many years.

There was some restraint during the fight.

But if the Black Evil Sect takes action, there will be no worries at all.

A large number of Mangcang tribe members died at the hands of the Black Evil Sect. At the critical moment, the former tribe leader knew that all this was caused by him.

He chose to sacrifice himself in exchange for the lives of the remaining tribesmen.

Under the desperate protection of the previous patriarch, the Black Evil Cult was eventually defeated.

However, only one-tenth or twelve-tenth of the original number of people are left in the Mangcang tribe.

Moreover, some of the remaining people were seriously injured.

Not long after the battle ended, those seriously injured tribesmen died one after another.

After the old man in white became the new patriarch, he learned his lesson and used secret methods to forcibly keep Dengtian Lingdao hidden.

They have also given up the idea of ​​looking for the old master and just want the Mangcang tribe to recover slowly.

After all, that incident caused too much loss to the Mangcang tribe.

The Mangcang people are different from the human race. It takes them a long time to reproduce.

The advantage is that they are similar to ghosts and have a very long lifespan.

The old man in white in front of Matthew said that he had lived for almost 100,000 years.

This completely subverted Matthew's understanding of lifespan.

The old man in white told Matthew that it would take at least several hundred years for the Mangcang people to produce offspring.

Moreover, it takes thousands of years for them to grow from childhood to adulthood.

At that time, Tong was already an old monster who had lived for more than 20,000 years.

After listening to the story told by the old man in white, Matthew couldn't help but marvel at the wonder of creation.

He had never heard of such a long lifespan.

At the same time, he also lamented how long the Black Evil Cult had existed.

As for why, after so many years, the number of people in the Mangcang tribe is still so small, it is because they need something special if they want to reproduce offspring.

And those things had already been almost destroyed in the civil war that year.

Even though the old man in white wanted to restore the Mangcang tribe to its former prosperity, a good cook cannot cook without rice.

Without those special things, he had no way out.

In addition, they can only reach Tianling Island secretly in the air, so even if they encounter what they need, they cannot get it.

"Since you can't show up, then the golden cloud in the Demon-Slaying Palace wasn't created by you?" Matthew asked after listening to the old man in white's story.

“That was the old master who activated the restriction on Dengtianling Island. We didn’t know what happened at the time, and we suddenly appeared there.” The old man in white shook his head and said.

"Since you call me Young Master, I must also take care of the affairs of the Mangcang tribe. What do you need to breed offspring?" Matthew asked.

They had been talking for such a long time, but Shi Tong had not come back yet. Matthew guessed that the old man in white must be waiting for his reply.

And now is the time to take a stand.

The first thing he had to do now was to enter the Mangcang Treasure Pavilion to see if there was anything that could assist him in his breakthrough to the God Transformation stage.

If you want to enter the Mangcang Treasure Pavilion, you must first appease the old man in white.

Seeing Matthew being so tactful, the old man in white breathed a sigh of relief.

He told Matthew so many things just because he wanted to get some benefits from him.

After all, Matthew is the old man's apprentice, so he must have what he needs.

"I need purple spirit jade." The old man in white said directly without any hesitation.

Matthew was a little surprised to hear this.

He originally thought it was some kind of elixir or other rare item, but he didn't expect it to be purple jade.

Just after the old man in white expressed his needs, some purple spirit jade suddenly appeared out of thin air in Matthew's storage bag.

It goes without saying that these purple spirit jades must have been given to him by the old man.

Now, Matthew also knew that the old man had been observing the situation outside.

Since the old man did not give any response and even took the initiative to give some purple spirit jade, it means that what the old man in white said is most likely true.