Hongmeng Ancestor, Chaos Ancestor (Grand Background)

When Ye Wen slid down the stone staircase to the ninth level, he suddenly realized there was still space beneath the Demon Suppressing Tower. He had always thought the tower only had nine floors, never imagining there would be a tenth floor below the ninth.

Looking at the words on the large door not far away—"Ninth Level of the Demon Suppressing Tower"—Ye Wen felt uneasy. He had a feeling he would learn about some earth-shattering event today.

The major incident he had just caused was already overwhelming. Should he really go in now and break open the ninth level of the Demon Suppressing Tower?

But he seemed to have no other choice. Ever since the Human Ancestor, as Old Uncle Zong called him, brought him to the Ancestral Star, he was perhaps destined for anything but an ordinary life.

Old Uncle Zong had said he waited for him in Yu Village for 200 years. Perhaps this world would truly change because of him!

Ye Wen no longer hesitated. He pushed open the door to the ninth level and walked in.

The space on the ninth level was countless times larger than the eighth level above. It was as if stars adorned the sky above. Were those glowing stones, or actual stars?

After walking for some time, Ye Wen didn't know how long it had been, but it was certainly very long. He still hadn't found Xingyu, and Xingyu hadn't contacted him through telepathy.

Suddenly, the entire space lit up, like the sunrise of a red sun. A massive luminous body appeared in the sky above the distant space.

"Is this truly a world? Is this a star, a sun? Incredible, simply incredible!"

As Ye Wen was bathed in the rising sunlight, he suddenly felt something was wrong. This wasn't real sunlight; he felt no warmth, only pure brightness.

At this moment, the entire world filled with light, and his vision became clear. He saw a mountain in the distance, with a city below it.

"A city? How can there be a city here? Isn't this inside the Demon Suppressing Tower? Could it be that the city is filled with imprisoned members of the Demon Race?"

Ye Wen walked towards the city below the mountain as he pondered. Upon entering the city, Ye Wen realized it was like a dead city, devoid of any signs of life. All the houses were dilapidated and on the verge of collapse.

As Ye Wen walked through the ruined streets, even though the "sun" was high in the sky, he felt no warmth. Instead, he felt an bone-chilling cold.

Could this be the hiding place of the ancient Hongmeng Human Race, their refuge from the crisis of extinction? Were the ancestors of humanity on Earth taken from cities like this and exiled to Earth?

"Come in!"

When Ye Wen reached the largest house, he received another telepathic message from Xingyu in his mind. Was he in the large house ahead?

Ye Wen slowly walked forward and pushed open the great door that hadn't been opened in millennia. Following the guidance that suddenly appeared in his mind, he passed through room after room and arrived in a chamber resembling a temple.

Inside the chamber stood two tall stone statues of middle-aged men with solemn expressions. Lying beneath the statues was a person, or perhaps, what was once a person, now just a dried corpse.

Ye Wen walked forward, approaching the statues, and looked at the dried corpse before him. Who was this?

Suddenly, a white mist emerged from the dried corpse. This mist was identical to the mist that had sealed the Azure Dragon. The mist slowly condensed into a human form. If one looked closely, they would realize it bore a striking resemblance to the dried corpse on the ground.

The condensed mist-person spoke.

"Hello! Our successor, I am Xingyu!"

"This, this is truly Xingyu? Weren't you dead? What is this then, a soul, a ghost?"

Xingyu didn't explain his current state and began to narrate directly.

"Ye Wen! We were sealed for ten thousand years. Now that the Demon Suppressing Tower has appeared, it signifies the seals have been broken. A new era has begun! And you are the leader of this new era."

Ye Wen looked at the misty old man. He wasn't concerned about eras or seals right now; those things were too distant for him. His mind was filled with too many questions, about himself and about the Hongmeng Human Race.

"Are you still alive?"

Ye Wen knew he had to get the answers from Xingyu to understand the current situation.

"I am dead. The ones who attacked us ten thousand years ago were far too powerful. I couldn't escape their grasp, but I don't know about the others? Their outcomes likely weren't good either."

"Then what is this... are you a ghost?"

Ye Wen knew there was ghost cultivation in this world, so he asked naturally.

"No, we didn't have a chance to cultivate the ghost path. At that time, he had already scattered our souls. The ghost path cultivates the soul. Before I was killed by him, I happened to be near the Demon Suppressing Tower. Using the Demon Suppressing Token, I was teleported in before I died. Shortly after entering, I died here.

What I am now is merely a remnant of my memories, which I instructed the Order Law to collect for me before I died. After this manifestation, these memories will vanish!"