Chapter 2751 - 2748: The Radiant Clan

When the light beam dispersed, the full view of the underground world was finally revealed to Ling Feng and his companion.

Around the square where the statue stood, there were densely packed statues stretching beyond sight. Ling Feng casually estimated there might be hundreds of thousands of statues, but couldn’t see the distant scene clearly.

A rough divine sense sensing estimated the number of statues to be around five hundred thousand, surely less than a million.

The statues varied in appearance, posture, and even age, yet their expressions were uniformly of terror, as if they’ve seen something horrific.

"These are..." Ling Feng was stunned. He had never seen so many petrified statues before, but had some vague guesses upon seeing them.

"These are my remaining clan members, or you could say the remaining members. I am their Clan Leader," Tianyang’s voice turned sorrowful.

"What exactly happened here?" Song Ruozhao asked, but having gone through many things, he had some suspicions about the cause and Tianyang’s attitude towards the Shui Clan.

"This has to be said many, many years ago, so long that I’ve even forgotten how many years have passed."

"At that time, the ruling power of this world wasn’t the Shui Clan. They were just a minor race in our Glorious World, absolutely incomparable to our Glorious Tribe. Back then, our Glorious Tribe was populous, almost spread across the entire Glorious World,"

"The remaining small races had to heed our commands, including the Shui Clan,"

"At that time, I was the Clan Leader of the Glorious Tribe. Relying on our innate powerful strength, I swept through many races of the Glorious World, annihilating those who did not submit to me with my army,"

"And those who submitted were granted land and resources to thrive in the Glorious World. After years of warfare, I nearly conquered the entire Glorious World,"

"My ambition swelled tremendously, and with no one daring to admonish me, I attempted to break the barrier between Nine Nether Worlds to conquer other worlds, becoming the true ruler of Nine Nether!"

"Thus, I allied all races of the Glorious World to breakthrough the world barrier, intending to attack those other worlds. The Shui Clan was among my forces at that time, led by Clan Leader Shui Hong,"

"But it was only when I led my army to the bordering Dark World that I realized there was always someone stronger, beyond what I imagined. My clan faced complete defeat, the worst since my conquering began,"

"Later, knowing the strength of the Dark World, I tried to retreat to the Glorious World only to be pursued by the Clan of Darkness. I had no choice but to make a costing retreat in terms of manpower, material, and finance, barely bringing back less than thirty percent of my original force to the Glorious World,"

"That was when I realized our disparity with other worlds, losing the courage to wage war again, I announced a ceasefire, planning to rule the Glorious World alone,"

"However, our clan guarding the world barrier discovered that the Clan of Darkness was watching us with interest, ready to attack our world at any moment!"

"Then, I finally realized how foolish and presumptuous I had been, I provoked those I shouldn’t have just as a new war was about to erupt,"

"At that time, Shui Hong, Clan Leader of the Shui Clan, presented a powerful secret potion claiming it could increase each warrior’s combat power threefold,"

"I was completely overwhelmed by the terror of war and the potential damage to the Glorious Tribe, I used the secret potion on my warriors without checking its reliability,"

"In the ensuing war, my warriors were indeed incredibly brave, but then came the side effects. No, it should be said the intended effect — my warriors fell dead on the battlefield, their corpses turning to black powder,"

"A certain victory was abruptly reversed, I was stunned, but seeing the blades of the Clan of Darkness right before me, I had no choice but to flee alone,"

"Indeed, it wasn’t that I didn’t want to lead them away, but I was the only one left..."

"You didn’t take the secret potion?" Ling Feng asked in disbelief.

"Haha, at that time, I was extremely confident, thinking that failure was due to the warriors not being strong enough, so I didn’t take the potion,"

"Sometimes I think it would have been better if I had taken the potion too, dying with the soldiers on the battlefield, I was the one who got them killed, it’s all my fault for trusting that bastard Shui Hong!"

"When I realized the abnormal deaths of my soldiers, I discovered a traitor in the Glorious World. I immediately went to confront Shui Hong, only to discover he had already evacuated all Shui Clan members from our main city,"

"Along with the disappearance were my clan members. When I followed the scent left by my confidants to this plain, my clan members were already held captive by Shui Hong. At that time, my mind was clouded by the loss of many soldiers,"

"I charged forward, intent on fighting Shui Hong to the death, but he was prepared. He set up an array from somewhere, binding me and my clan members when I tried to rescue them,"

"He intended to use the array to refine our remaining clan members for his own cultivation!"

"After numerous attempts to break the array failed, I resorted to using a treasure I acquired after defeating other races to save my clan,"

"Thus petrifying myself and my clan members, preventing the array from refining us. Then I used my remaining strength to shatter the ground creating a fissure sealing myself and my clan in the underground world until today,"

"How did the Shui Clan handle the Clan of Darkness’s invasion afterward?"

"At that time, some remnants of my power revealed that that bastard Shui Hong had traded with the Clan of Darkness, dividing part of the Glorious World to merge into the Dark World, thereby annihilating our Glorious Tribe,"

"That’s how peace was obtained, or else do you think the bunch from the Dark World would have let it slide?"

"And thus, my clan and I were sealed until today."