The Old Village Chief saw the villagers on the ground who had become Black Robe's people, and a deeply gratified smile rose in his heart. His eyes were full of affection as he kept nodding. "Good! Good! I knew it. Once you learned these children came from Wuyuan Village, you would never wipe them all out."
"Since you acknowledge the Son of God, why would you still do something like this?" Blackheart Elder still could not understand.
"You should know by now, shouldn't you? The so-called Seal-Guarding Clan are actually all vengeful spirits. They believe they have lived for ten thousand years, but how could people possibly survive such long ages?" The Old Village Chief looked at Blackheart Elder and spoke slowly.
"They were all people who died after the Boundary Rift appeared back then. It was only that the god who descended here restored their minds so they were no longer muddleheaded, though they also lost some memories."
"So that's why they were told not to leave this place? Because once they leave a special environment like the Sea of Nether Domain, they'll vanish like smoke." He Dazhi suddenly understood.
So the so-called inability to leave was, on one hand, because they truly needed to guard the seal and could not abandon their post without permission; on the other hand, it was also to protect these seal guardians. Once they left an environment like the Sea of Nether Domain, where soul bodies could exist, it would be no different from suicide.
The Old Village Chief nodded.
"But many of them looked like people to me. I couldn't tell they were vengeful spirits at all!" Blackheart Elder looked at the Old Village Chief in confusion and asked.
"That was the work of a god. Even they themselves believed they were