The Legend of the Demon Hunter

"Who are you referring to when you say 'they'?" Xiao Zhu asked.

"They are a family that came here a thousand years ago. Their surname is Gu, and we call them the Gu Clan."

"Thousands of years ago? Ancient tribe?" Xiao Zhu thought of the three major witch tribes in the ancient city of Loulan, and glanced at the three beast god statues in front of Nangong Hou.

"Was this beast god statue also spread by the ancient tribe?" Xiao Zhu asked.

"Sir, you have a keen eye. Do you know something about this ancient clan?" Nangong Hou replied.

"Patriarch Nangong, the sins committed by the Nangong family in the Tianling land are enough to send us to the eighteen levels of hell, but since you are being driven by someone, in order to find the culprit, how about we make a deal? As long as you tell me everything you know about the ancient clan and take me to find the location of this ancient clan, I will spare your life today." Xiao Zhu said.

After hearing what Xiao Zhu said, Nangong Hou also started to make his own plans. Now his family had been destroyed by Xiao Zhu, and he was the only one left. His strength was totally not enough in front of Xiao Zhu. It would be better to lure Xiao Zhu to the location of the ancient clan, and with the help of the power of the two old monsters of the ancient clan, he could kill Xiao Zhu in one fell swoop.

By then, with his strength, it would not be difficult for him to unite with the two old monsters of the ancient clan and dominate the Tianling land again.

But he was a little confused, where did this young man come from? Why did he choose to fight for those lowly miners as soon as he arrived here?

"As long as you can spare my life, there will be no problem." Nangong Hou said with pretended gratitude.

"To be honest, the Ancient Clan is an alien race in the Tianling Land. In fact, a thousand years ago, the Nangong Family was already a major family here. Before the Ancient Clan invaded this place, there were neither demon hunters, law enforcers, nor miners. The Tianling Land at that time was completely different from what it is now..."

Nangong Hou's first sentence attracted Xiao Zhu's full attention.

"A long, long time ago, the land of Tianling was a paradise. Although there were big families and common people at that time, everyone made a living by farming. Although the big families were relatively wealthy, they also understood the principle of 'a mansion with a bed of seven feet, a thousand acres of fertile land, and only three meals a day', and did not encroach on the farmland here, so everyone could be said to live and work in peace and contentment. I don't know how many years this life lasted."

"Until a thousand years ago, a lineage of foreigners invaded the Tianling Land. They possessed magical powers and could call the wind and rain, and chase the moon with a wave of their hands. The natives of the Tianling Land had never seen such a powerful force. But these people did not intend to live in harmony with the natives of the Tianling Land. As soon as they arrived here, they occupied the most precious Tianling Mountain. While expelling the natives of Tianling Mountain, they also killed several people. In the eyes of the natives, the image of these people gradually changed from gods to demons."

A thousand years ago...

Hearing the time point mentioned by Nangong Hou, Xiao Zhu thought of the disaster of the monsters a thousand years ago. Did the two happen at the same time? Could it be that the invasion of the ancient tribe into the Tianling Land has something to do with the disaster of the monsters?

In the ruins of the ancient city of Loulan, Fairy Luoxia once said that the Loulan witch clan was destroyed by the monsters. Perhaps the ancient clan survived the battle and then fled to this spiritual place, where they have lived in seclusion ever since.

"As you know, the spiritual energy in Tianling Land is extremely thin, and demon hunters cannot practice at all. The reason is that the spiritual energy has been completely absorbed by the spiritual mine under Tianling Mountain. Although the people of the ancient tribe are cruel and murderous by nature, their wisdom is amazing. By observing the flow of spiritual energy here, they unexpectedly discovered that there is a spiritual mine hidden under Tianling Mountain. The ore in the spiritual mine is almost endless, and it will never be exhausted even if it is developed for ten thousand years."

"So the Ancient Clan began to try to control the indigenous people here to help them mine spiritual ore. However, the Ancient Clan is an alien race after all, and although the indigenous people here are weak, they still have some backbone. At first, the Ancient Clan wanted to control these indigenous people through violent means of coercion, but many people would rather die than surrender. This made the Ancient Clan's ideas fail again and again, and they were very troubled by this."

"Until later, the ancient tribe used their wisdom and intelligence to come up with a grand plan."

"What plan?" Xiao Zhu asked puzzledly.

"This plan is very complicated. It is said that the original plan has tens of thousands of words. However, since you have seen its final product, it is also very easy to understand. In simple terms, it can be divided into three steps."

"The first step is religious control. We spread the beast god religion passed down by the ancient tribe to all the indigenous people and guide them to believe in this religion. The indigenous people will be more likely to accept a nation with the same beliefs."

"The second step is to be the law enforcer. We select people with bloodline talents from the indigenous people and give them some help so that they can complete their bloodline awakening and become demon hunters. Once these people experience the power of demon hunters, they will be unable to stop and will never be able to return to being ordinary people. So these people will be completely loyal to them and become the most powerful force under the ancient clan."

"The third step is to establish a puppet regime. By cultivating a large family like the Nangong family to serve them, they can completely hide behind the scenes and use the Nangong family to deify the existence of the ancient clan to the world. Gradually, the ancient clan has become the real unshakable god of this world."

After listening to Nangong Hou's introduction, Xiao Zhu couldn't help but feel cold sweats coming out. The wisdom of the ancient clan was really superb. Only these people could think of such a way to cut off their lineage and make hundreds of thousands of people in such a big world become tools, and this tool drives a huge machine, and ultimately serves the private interests of a family.

Many vested interests emerged in this process. To use an inappropriate analogy, when everyone worked together to hunt a deer, the ancient tribe ate the meat, the law enforcers drank the soup, and the vast majority of ordinary people just contributed and got nothing in the end. But the law enforcers who drank the soup cherished their vested interests, so they would rather betray their native people and provide shelter for the meat-eating ancient tribe.

"How do you know so much about the background of the ancient clan?" Xiao Zhu looked at Nangong Hou with doubt in his heart.

"In fact, this information is top secret in the Tianling Land. Ordinary people have no way of knowing it. But because the ancient clan needs to rely on the power of the Nangong family to obtain spiritual stones, I became the only one who can enter and exit the ancient clan's secluded place to offer spiritual stones to them. Over time, I learned this information."

The reason given by Nangong Hou was still very reasonable. Xiao Zhu chose to believe him. Besides, such a grand plan was definitely not something that one person could make up casually.

"Where exactly is that ancient tribe?" Xiao Zhu asked.

"It's in a valley behind Tianling Mountain called Tianling Secret Valley." Nangong Hou replied.