[What appeared on the Celestial Screen was a piece of the past, several files.]
[The destruction of Nuoding City was not only a great loss to the Heaven Dou Empire, but an immense loss to all humanity.]
[Because of the plague, this was the first time in human history that humanity had lost a homeland it depended on for survival.]
[It was also one of the few places humans could never set foot in again.]
[After the plague subsided, everyone shared a thought: if they could not resolve the plague, they at least had to learn its origin.]
[The Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall joined forces, their scholars and officials frantically sorting through every piece of intelligence from before and after the plague outbreak in Nuoding City.]
[They attempted to find any suspicious clues.]
[In the end, those scholars singled out two people from countless intelligence reports.]
[Two Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters with innate full soul power, Tang San and Ye Wuhen.]
[Before they became completely infected and lost their independent consciousness, Spirit Hall's two loyal deacons, Su Yuntao and Martino, verbally relayed their accounts to others, passing them through one person after another to inform Spirit Hall of the suspicious nature of these two individuals.]
[Both of these people had had their martial souls awakened personally by Spirit Hall's Deacon Su Yuntao.]
[Information passed by word of mouth inevitably contained errors, but even setting aside the accounts given by Su Yuntao and Martino themselves, the information pieced together by various parties did make Tang San suspicious.]
[First, as a genius with innate full soul power, regardless of his martial soul, Nuoding City's Spirit Hall should have reported Tang San's circumstances to its superior Spirit Hall.]
[However, according to Spirit Hall's investigation, the Spirit Hall above Nuoding City had no records of the martial soul or soul power of anyone named Tang San.]
[That was very suspicious.]
[Ye Wuhen, on the other hand, had a clean background, with clear records of his mutated Blue Silver Grass martial soul and innate full soul power.]
[No matter how they looked at it, Tang San was more suspicious than Ye Wuhen.]
[Yet the messages Su Yuntao and Martino passed on attributed every possible cause of the plague to Ye Wuhen.]
[Ye Wuhen was from Fu Niu Village near Nuoding City, and Su Yuntao had awakened his martial soul and soul power when he was six.]
[Afterward, he attended Nuoding Academy as a work-study student.]
[But fourteen days after school began, he mysteriously disappeared.]
[After searching fruitlessly for three days, Spirit Hall and Heaven Dou Empire officials declared that he had died in an accident.]
[These scattered pieces of intelligence gathered by the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall themselves could all be verified; several of his classmates who were also work-study students had even held a simple funeral for Ye Wuhen.]
[Yet strangely, according to the information passed on by Su Yuntao and Martino, after Ye Wuhen had been missing for seven days and seven nights, he returned!]
[Under the eyes of everyone at Nuoding Academy, Ye Wuhen returned.]
[With mud and some green grass on him, Ye Wuhen returned alive.]
[If Su Yuntao and Martino's information was correct, seven hours after Ye Wuhen returned, the plague appeared in a teacher and student at Nuoding Academy.]
[They were none other than the suspicious Tang San and that "Master of Theory," Yu Xiaogang, though there were also vague reports that a third person had been among the first infected.]
[Seven hours and seven minutes after Ye Wuhen's return, all the relevant teachers and students at Nuoding Academy were infected.]
[At seven hours and fourteen minutes, the plague spread throughout Nuoding City, infecting every resident.]
[The initial symptoms were various signs of poisoning, including vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, and so on.]
[Seven minutes after infection, the infected began to suffer rotting flesh, with all manner of pustules and red rashes appearing on their bodies.]
[By then, however, the initial symptoms had disappeared, or rather, those initial symptoms no longer caused their bodies any real discomfort.]
[Those descriptions of the timing were frighteningly precise, yet also seemed somewhat false.]
[Even illness varied from body to body, so how could the timing be so precise, and all in sevens at that?]
[Ultimately, the scholars involved concluded that Su Yuntao and Martino had already been infected with the plague at the time and, their minds beginning to grow muddled, had simply spoken those numbers at random.]
[As for Ye Wuhen's supposed "resurrection," perhaps he had never died at all, but had merely contracted some unusual disease in the wilderness?]
[In short, because of these various factors, the name Ye Wuhen ultimately became known to the upper ranks of every major power because of the plague.]
[Furthermore, the major powers presumed that Ye Wuhen was the plague's first infected person, as well as its spreader.]
[Back in reality, Bi Shuo looked up at the picture high in the sky with a rather grim expression.]
["I never thought that fellow was still alive, let alone that he had brought such a tremendous calamity upon humanity."]
["This is trouble. Ye Wuhen is infected. Although we don't know why the plague stopped spreading back then, there's no guarantee that this fellow won't repeat what happened in Notting."]
[Ultimately, the plague had not been contained because the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall had acted quickly to seal it off.]
[In Bi Shuo's own view, the so-called containment line was nothing more than a high wall that the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall had built around the places where transmission had stopped.]
["Honored King of the Forest! What exactly did Ye Wuhen do to provoke such fury from the Star Dou Great Forest?"]
["This man is also a major fugitive wanted in our human world. We are willing to join forces with the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt him down, so please do not vent your anger on us uninvolved humans!"]
[So that human was called Ye Wuhen?]
[Xiong Jun's beastly eyes stared disdainfully at Bi Shuo a short distance away, his powerful voice resounding across the entire area.]
["I can't be bothered to discuss this and that with you. Just hand over that whoever-he-is."]
["As for joining forces..." Xiong Jun's beastly face still bore an extremely human expression of disdain.]
["You humans are on far too low a level. You aren't worthy of discussing any alliance with us."]
[With that, Xiong Jun rolled over and actually closed his eyes to doze, right in front of all the soul beasts and humans.]
[The whole bear looked utterly at ease.]
["That fellow is far too arrogant!"]
[Several team leaders of the Sons of Glory were immediately filled with indignation at the sight of Xiong Jun showing their leader such disrespect.]
[What they did not know was that information from across the battlefield was passing into another person's consciousness through several stalks of Blue Silver Grass.]
["Exactly! Far too arrogant!"]
[In a dense stretch of woodland within the Star Dou Great Forest, Ye Wuhen, the instigator of everything, currently held a fiery red apple in his mouth as he watched the battlefield below with interest.]
[Beside him, the Ten-Thousand-Year Emerald Swan's soul ring had already vanished, and even the corpse had turned into stark white bones.]
[This place was not far from the battlefield, yet strangely, neither Chrysanthemum Douluo nor those hundred-thousand-year soul beasts had discovered any trace of Ye Wuhen.]
["I'm Grandfather's most beloved child, yet that beast didn't even remember my name."]
["Tsk, tsk. Perhaps I should take this opportunity to do something big, and let the entire continent know the names of Grandfather and me, Ye Wuhen?"]
[Ye Wuhen stroked his handsome face, his eyes suddenly lighting up.]
["How about I charge over with my army at the most crucial moment and rescue that group?"]
["The other Three Gods have restricted Grandfather's love for the Douluo Continent, but surely they haven't restricted me from spreading Grandfather's benevolent name?"]
["Khorne even has people shouting 'Blood for the Blood God,' so there's no reason not to let me spread Grandfather's name!"]
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