Worthless Profession: Dragon Tamer

Chapter 1098, The Era of Mountains and Seas, and the Era of Slaughter

Translator: Silavin

“Teacher Ouyang, it’s been a while!” Ye Wuxian instinctively stepped forward to offer support.

Ouyang Bai Ge waved her off politely. “No need for that. You know what I am. I’m not someone who can’t walk on her own two feet.”

“Ah…” Ye Wuxian’s cheeks flushed, realising she had been overthinking things.

Given Ouyang Bai Ge’s level of power, to say nothing of walking, she could flash across hundreds of kilometres in an instant without the slightest effort.

One could only say that Ouyang Bai Ge’s outward appearance was remarkably deceptive.

There was no shortage of Ye Family members on hand to greet her, and who among them could have imagined that this frail, wind-battered old woman was a true Ancient God?

Ouyang Bai Ge adjusted her spectacles and looked Ye Wuxian up and down with a warm smile. “I’d thought that once you knew my identity as an Ancient God, there might be some distance between us. But looking at you now, it seems I was the one overthinking things. I could tell from the very beginning you’re a kind-hearted girl, a good child. And it turns out that’s exactly so. I appreciate the thought. But let’s first go and take a look at that secret chamber you mentioned.”

“Of course…” Ye Wuxian nodded and led the way.

Lu Fan stood to one side, watching the scene with no small amount of amusement, keeping pace beside Ouyang Bai Ge. “Teacher Ouyang, you may not know this, but truth be told, Senior Sister really had been worrying beforehand about how she would face you. I spent quite a long time talking her through it, actually. But I never expected that the moment she saw you, all those worries just melted away, and her mannerism towards you would be exactly the same as before.”

“Look, here I was, saying her worries were all unnecessary. Even though you carry another identity, you are still Ouyang Bai Ge. There’s no need to cast that Human part of yourself aside.”

“Stop talking nonsense!” Ye Wuxian turned from ahead and shot Lu Fan a ferocious glare.

Lu Fan shrugged, offering a helpless smile.

Ouyang Bai Ge smiled quietly and said nothing more.

Everyone present was now an Ancient God. Sooner or later, there would be plenty of opportunities to meet again.

That today’s meeting had passed without too much awkwardness between them was actually a good thing.

Before long, the group arrived before the Transport Array at the entrance to the secret chamber, stepped inside, and were teleported inside.

The moment they arrived, the colour drained from Ouyang Bai Ge’s face.

She raised her gaze to the massive nine-headed serpent statue looming before her, her expression still as deep water, and for a long while she said nothing at all.

Han Ke, standing nearby, could no longer contain herself. She leaned close to Lu Fan and whispered, “Fan’er, what’s wrong with Teacher Ouyang? She seems to know something about the origin of this statue.”

Lu Fan gave a slight nod, then made a hushing gesture towards Han Ke and murmured back, “Let Teacher Ouyang properly have a good look at it. This thing clearly has some history. Let’s see what she has to say in a moment.”

Han Ke nodded and kept her silence.

After a long while, the colour returned to Ouyang Bai Ge’s face.

“I truly didn’t expect to find where it had gone so quickly…” Ouyang Bai Ge shook her head and smiled faintly, her expression a tangle of complex emotions.

Seeing that Ouyang Bai Ge clearly knew a great deal about the stone statue, Lu Fan and the others immediately crowded around her, eager to learn who this ‘it’ she spoke of truly was.

Ouyang Bai Ge did not keep them in suspense. She spoke slowly and plainly: “Your guesses were correct. This statue is indeed a vessel for an Ancient God. And moreover, a tremendously powerful Ancient God at that.”

Upon hearing that yet another Ancient God’s whereabouts had been discovered, Lu Fan’s pulse quickened with excitement.

It seemed his luck really was quite something. He had only just obtained a Divine Seat from one Ancient God, and before he even had a chance to celebrate, here was another Ancient God’s location falling into his lap.

As though she had read the quiet elation in Lu Fan’s heart, Ouyang Bai Ge cautioned him. “Don’t get ahead of yourself just yet. This Ancient God is far more fearsome than any you’ve ever encountered before…”

Lu Fan’s brow rose at once. He carefully asked, “Is it a High Tier Ancient God?”

Ouyang Bai Ge nodded, then added. “Not merely that. Even among High Tier Ancient Gods, it is an exceptionally troublesome existence. To my knowledge, it has already claimed the God King position twice, having established both the Era of Mountains and Seas, and the Era of Slaughter.”

“Compared to the previous God King, the Fallen Corpse Ancient God, I am, if anything, even less willing to see this one become the next God King. Because…” Ouyang Bai Ge’s gaze grew distant and deep, as though she was reaching back through time, recalling a terrifying era she herself had once lived through.

“Whether it was the Era of Mountains and Seas, or the Era of Slaughter, the World Principles were all utterly merciless. During the Era of Mountains and Seas, countless Monsters were born. Every means of evolution available to those Monsters was oriented around consuming others. Reason and morality that ought to exist vanished entirely in that era.”

“As for the Era of Slaughter, it was even more against the very order of Heaven. In that era, every person possessed something called a Blood Essence. Only by dying could this Blood Essence be extracted. If another person consumed the Blood Essence, their power would grow. And this was the only method of growing stronger. So during the Era of Slaughter, every person desired to kill the other. Some even bred offspring solely for the sake of harvesting their children’s Blood Essence.”

“If the Era of Mountains and Seas was a cruelly extreme era, then the Era of Slaughter was an age of boundless perversion, one utterly devoid of any humanity. If we were to compare, the Era of Slaughter was the more terrifying of the two. After all, in a world where Human society still existed while slaughter formed the very foundation of existence, morality was trampled far more thoroughly, made it far more nauseating.”

At this, Ouyang Bai Ge sighed softly. “Among the thirty-six Ancient Gods, the one I despise most is this Ancient God, also known as the Slaughter Ancient God.”

“Twice he became God King, and twice he gave rise to those two truly horrendous anti-Human worlds. I truly cannot fathom what living Hell would be ushered in the next time he becomes a God King and a new era arrives.”

When Ouyang Bai Ge finished speaking, the expressions of everyone present, Lu Fan included, grew grim.

Whether the Slaughter Ancient God was powerful or not could wait; at the very least, he was clearly a perverted existence that was warped beyond measure.

In his eyes, slaughter seemed to be the most entertaining thing this world had to offer.

Were such an entity to become God King, everything this opportunity had cultivated would be wiped clean.

And the next era would, most likely, once again be a world steeped in despair.

Still, stripping this Ancient God of its Divine Seat would certainly be no simple matter. Having claimed the position of God King twice, his power could be imagined.

Lu Fan thought it over for a moment and decided to ask. “Teacher Ouyang, that Slaughter Ancient God, he must be extremely strong, right?”

Silavin: Mountain and Seas is from a book. It is technically like a map with Monsters to be found. When you think about Chinese mythos, it basically come from this book.