Braised Dragon with Soy Sauce

"The Feather Emperor Palace, such a powerful entity, actually intends to annihilate your entire clan."

My guess is that your people pose some kind of threat to them, or that they know some of their secrets. To eliminate this threat, they are going to great lengths to kill you.

Mo Yuming said.

"Although it's not quite as the young master guessed, it's not far off."

In fact, our Wu clan has always been one of the many branches of the Feather Emperor Palace. The elders and some highly skilled clansmen have held important positions in the Feather Emperor Palace.

Our ancestors deserve immense credit for the Feathered Emperor Palace's ability to stand strong and dominate for a thousand years.

As for this catastrophe, it is said that our Supreme Elder, who serves as the High Priest in the Feather Emperor Palace, accidentally discovered the unspeakable secret of the Feather Emperor Palace. He learned that our Wu Clan has been aiding and abetting evil for thousands of years, so he decided to leave the Feather Emperor Palace and lead his people to live in anonymity, no longer concerning themselves with worldly affairs.

However, the people of the Feather Emperor's Palace were unwilling to let us go. After arresting all the clansmen holding various positions within the Feather Emperor's Palace, they directly declared our Witch Clan a criminal clan and issued the Feather Emperor's Decree, ordering the five kingdoms of Tianxuan to exterminate us with all their might, leaving no one alive.

Park Ah-joo said.

"Since your elder can serve as the high priest, that is an extremely high position, and he should be a very capable person."

Before he decided to retire, he should have come up with a foolproof plan, so that even if he were captured, he would still have the ability to protect his people.

Besides, you haven't done anything wrong, so why does the Feather Palace want to exterminate you all?

Mo Yuming found the matter quite strange.

"As for the specific reasons, we don't know either."

They don't tell us about the things that adults do.

I only overheard some things from my grandfather, the clan chief. It is said that our witch clan has a kind of bloodline inheritance. Every once in a while, some outstanding descendants in the clan will be able to awaken their bloodline and inherit the legacy of their ancestors, thus gaining an extremely mysterious and heaven-defying ability.

As for what exactly this ability is, no one knows.

I suspect that the Feather Emperor Palace learned of this secret and, fearing that these future powerhouses would pose a threat, decided to strike first.

Park Ah-joo said.

“This situation is indeed very possible. After all, your witch clan was once an extremely important member of them and has many of their unspeakable secrets. Naturally, they do not want anyone to be born who poses a threat to them.”

Mo Yuming said.

"Now it's all good. No matter if any of you awaken your bloodline in the future, the Feather Emperor Palace will not be able to find this place."

You can rest assured, because above this canyon are the Cloud Condensation Illusion Array and the Thunder Barrier, which have existed since ancient times.

Everyone in the entire Tianxuan Continent believed that this canyon was a death canyon. No one had ever been able to enter it safely, and those who fell into the canyon never came out again.

Therefore, people call this place the Valley of Heartbreak. For thousands of years, we are the first people to leave the canyon, while you are the first people to successfully enter it.

You are free to move around in this canyon.

A hundred miles south of here lies Xianghe Valley, where ancient Homo sapiens live. They are very docile, and as long as you don't provoke them, you can live in peace with them.

If you travel more than a hundred miles north, you'll reach Ruimu Valley. It's best to avoid the area past Huoyun Cave, as it contains many high-level magical beasts.

When your cultivation level is higher, you can go for the trials, but with your current level, it's best not to go.

Mo Yuming said.

"Ancient Homo sapiens? I heard my grandfather talk about it when I was a child. It is said that they were more powerful than humans ten thousand years ago, but then they suddenly disappeared from the Tianxuan Continent for some reason!"

It is said that there are still some ancient Homo sapiens' inherited cultivation techniques in the Feather Emperor's Palace, but the writing is not our current writing system, and no one can understand it.

Park Ah-joo recalled.

After settling Park Ya-joo and the others into their accommodations, Mo Yu-ming and He Ye went to visit the place where he kept his magical beasts.

There, Mo Yuming kept hundreds of different kinds of magical beast cubs. Most of them were injured little magical beasts he adopted after the beast tide, and a small number were hatched from abandoned magical beast eggs, as well as those captured by Mo Yuming.

Since they left the valley, the two baby apes have been helping Mo Yuming look after the magical beasts most of the time.

Because the two Homo sapiens cubs had been treated by Mo Wen, they were very close to him.

Later, Mo Yuming often went to Xianghe Valley with Mo Wen to play, and gradually became friends with them. After Xinlan left, Mo Yuming often played with the two Homo sapiens cubs, and the elder Homo sapiens were also very comfortable with them befriending Mo Yuming.

After playing with them for a while, Mo Yuming taught them to communicate with each other using body language.

Homo sapiens were as intelligent as humans, and they also had their own language and traditions, but these were gradually lost as Homo sapiens declined.

Over the years, the two Homo sapiens cubs have learned a great deal of knowledge and skills from Mo Yuming.

For example, the technology of raising magical beasts is what they like to do most. Perhaps due to the inheritance of their ancestral bloodline, they are naturally closer to humans and have a stronger desire to conquer magical beasts.

Since most of the captive-bred monsters are herbivores, they can simply be kept in an area with abundant aquatic plants.

Normally, all we need to do is prevent them from escaping.

A few carnivorous magical beasts were kept in caves by Mo Yuming and his group, and River Master would regularly prepare some meat for them to eat.

These magical beasts grow much slower than wild animals, and haven't changed much in over a year.

The vegetarian monsters, on the other hand, grew much faster, more than doubling in size within a year.

After everyone left the valley, the salt mining also stopped.

Outside, Mo Yuming and his team could simply buy some inexpensive coarse salt from the market and then secretly refine it in their secret chamber to obtain high-quality natural salt, thus eliminating the need for mining and refining from the valley floor. The tools were still there; they only needed a quick clean before use.

From now on, Park Ya-joo and the other twenty-odd children will be living here for a long time, so Mo Yu-ming wants to teach them how to refine salt themselves.

The task of teaching was entrusted to Grandpa He, who was once one of the few people who really enjoyed the work of refining salt, so he taught these witch children quite well.

More than twenty children surrounded Grandpa He, watching him clean and crush the salt ore, then dissolve, filter, wash, and rinse it, finally drying it to obtain snow-white refined salt.

It was like watching a magic show; everyone was thoroughly enjoying themselves.