The Missing Memories

The Green Oak Clan is a peaceful and tranquil clan. They value bloodlines, love tranquility, and there is no such thing as betrayal or abandonment; this is their innate character.

As time went by, Dayi gradually began to learn to think.

It studies its bloodline heritage and memories every single day.

It pondered the various reasons why its leader might have become so indifferent to its people.

Finally, one day it found a possibility.

It was a tiny detail, barely occupying any space, hidden in a corner of the vast memories of bloodline inheritance. If one didn't look carefully, they might never have noticed it in their Dayi.

"Later, I spent hundreds of years scouring through the memories of my bloodline inheritance, and finally I found the reason why you lost your bloodline inheritance memories."

"The memories of bloodline inheritance... are lost?" Qingle asked, puzzled.

Since it's a bloodline inheritance, how could it be lost? Although he truly has no memories of his own clan, the only inheritance he received were innate supernatural Divine Ability and various Law Technique of the Green Oak Clan.

Dayi nodded vigorously. "Yes, you must have been forced to lose your bloodline inheritance memories. The records say that our Green Oak Clan has always grown naturally in our clan territory, absorbing the essence of the sun and moon over a long period of time. If there is a leader, we can awaken our spirit and cultivate under the leader's protection. If the leader is not present, we need to awaken our spirit ourselves, so that we can obtain the complete bloodline inheritance of the clan."

"There is only one exception: the inability to obtain a complete bloodline inheritance. That is when one's spirit is awakened by a different race."

"If your intelligence was awakened by the alien race using their own Law Power, then you would be missing a portion of your bloodline inheritance."

After hearing this, Qingle looked at Dayi with some astonishment, but her gaze seemed to be looking at someone who existed in a distant memory rather than at the freshman.

He recalled the first person he saw after successfully awakening his spiritual awareness.

At that time, he knew nothing about this world and had no memory of it. He only remembered that person's gentle smile, warm hands stroking his branches and leaves, and soft voice saying, "You are the last remaining Green Oak Clan. You must live well and leave the Great Wilderness Domain with me. I will take care of you from now on."

That person even gave himself a name, Danling.

The name Qingle was chosen by herself later to remember the difference between herself and human cultivators, and to remember her clan name.

Later, Qingle formed a spiritual pact with that person and left the Great Wilderness Domain.

That person was one of the founders of the Zhenyang Sect, Venerable Changfu.

Qingle had always regarded him as her only family. After living in the Mysterious Extreme Domain for a hundred or two hundred years, and after Venerable Changfu failed to break through to the Spirit Transformation and passed away, Qingle still stayed at the Zhenyang Sect to guard this place.

Later, Zhenyang Sect was poorly managed and could not make ends meet. It was on the verge of complete ruin when one of the elders suggested that he use his innate supernatural Divine Ability to build a city.

This led to the later Zhenyang City.

Thinking about these past events, Qingle felt her mind was in turmoil.

If that's the case, then it matches what Dayi said. It's very likely that Changfu prematurely activated his spiritual power before it naturally awakened, causing him to lose his bloodline inheritance memories and leave the Great Wilderness Domain with him, completely forgetting his own clan.

The time spent with Changfu was very relaxing and enjoyable for Qingle, and he was very unwilling to put Changfu in a position that would hinder him and his clan.

"As for why we haven't seen a single oak tree before..." the Dayi began, pausing for a long time before finally saying in a somber tone, "It's because our Green Oak Clan was wiped out more than five thousand years ago."

"Extermination of the entire clan?!" Qingle was shocked.

Dayi scratched his canopy with a branch. "When I was in the Great Wilderness Domain, I asked some senior demons, but they didn't know much about it either. They only said that about five thousand years ago, a huge upheaval seemed to have occurred in the Great Wilderness Domain. Many great Demon Race were wiped out, and many Demon Race fled the Great Wilderness Domain, resulting in a very small number of Demon Race in the Great Wilderness Domain for a long time. Later, many new Demon Race were born, or the descendants of Demon Race who fled returned to find their homeland, and life slowly returned."

"Elder brother, our clan's land wasn't like that before. According to the records, our clan's land used to be very lush, nurturing batch after batch of saplings, and each batch of saplings was very strong. However, it was severely damaged during the Great Wilderness Domain Incident, and it can be said that it was almost completely destroyed. Therefore, it was very difficult for the clan's land to nurture our clan again. It was a long time after your birth that my batch of saplings was born," Dayi said.

It turned its head and looked around at the stunted appearance of its other kin, and said dejectedly, "We Green Oaks, born after the destruction of our clan's territory, are completely incomparable to the Green Oaks of the past."

Hearing that the clan's territory had been destroyed, Qingle couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness, even though he had no inherited memories. Looking at the tender little oak trees surrounding him, he could clearly sense the cultivation level of each of them.

The Green Oak Tree is naturally able to conceal its cultivation level from others, but these little green oaks revealed their true nature to him without reservation.

Qingle still remembers how she followed Changfu from the Great Wilderness Domain all the way to the Mysterious Extreme Domain. Although Changfu was already Nascent Soul cultivator at that time, and although she cultivated very quickly along the way, the journey was not easy for them.

Besides, these are just young oak seedlings!

They were all only at the Spirit Opening Stage stage, with the highest being only at the Dayi, barely reaching the Spirit Awakening Third Layer. Their realms were still very unstable and they looked like they could fall back to the Spirit Awakening Second Layer at any time.

Qingle couldn't imagine how these young members of their race had crossed the two great spiritual domains of Chongxiao Domain and Netherworld Domain to reach this place.

It's unimaginable how many members of the Green Oak Clan have perished along the way.

He felt an uncontrollable heat well up in his eyes, and he raised his hand to stroke the sparse canopies of the small oak trees beside him, his throat choked as he asked, "Have you all been waiting for me outside the whole time?"

Qingle knew he had asked a pointless question, but he still wanted to ask it and hear the answers from his people.

"Yeah, yeah!"

"Boss, we're all waiting for you!"

"Boss, I've been waiting for you outside ever since I got here!"

"Me too!"

"Boss, me too!"

Watching them laugh and jump around, eagerly answering her questions, Qingle felt as if her long-lonely heart was instantly enveloped in warmth.

Once everyone had calmed down, the Dayi looked at Qingle with expectant eyes and asked, "Boss, will you still be our leader?"

With tears welling in her eyes, Qingle smiled at them and said, "Of course."