After that, the dark figure roughly explained to Chu Feng the story of this village and Bai Liluo.
All the villagers in this village were beings transformed from Heaven and Earth Oddities. Having grown up within the Ancestral Martial Cultivation Realm since childhood, they could sense other Heaven and Earth Oddities that had awakened.
And whenever they sensed a Heaven and Earth Oddity awakening, they would seek it out and bring it back to this place.
The reason was simple — they regarded every awakened Heaven and Earth Oddity as a companion, and every companion as a member of their own kind. In their eyes, only other Heaven and Earth Oddities could truly be considered family.
One day, they found another awakened companion. However, this one was somewhat special. Though it had already awakened and possessed its own independent consciousness, it remained in the form of a Heaven and Earth Oddity, unable to take on human form, let alone move about freely.
In short, this Heaven and Earth Oddity had not yet fully awakened.
To ensure its safety, the villagers brought it back to the village and assigned someone to take meticulous care of it. That person was the very woman now lying in the grave — Bai Liluo.
To help it awaken as soon as possible, the villagers even took turns infusing it with their own power. They had gone to tremendous lengths.
Although the Heaven and Earth Oddity could not move, it could speak and possessed its own intelligence. Through spending every day and night together with Bai Liluo, the two formed a deep bond.
Bai Liluo called it her little sister, and it called Bai Liluo its elder sister.
At the same time, it regarded every villager in the village as family.
After many years, the Heaven and Earth Oddity was finally on the verge of a complete awakening.
The villagers were beside themselves with excitement, for they all realized that this Heaven and Earth Oddity was different from them.
Although they were all Heaven and Earth Oddities, their own awakening had not granted them particularly strong cultivation talent. But this Heaven and Earth Oddity was different — it possessed immense power.
The villagers believed that once this Heaven and Earth Oddity fully awakened, it would become their guardian deity, perhaps even enabling them to reclaim their Ancestral Martial Cultivation Realm from the clutches of the countless cultivators and roam freely throughout the realm from that point on.
It was for this reason that when the day of the Heaven and Earth Oddity's true awakening arrived, the villagers treated it with the utmost importance, even holding a grand celebration.
However, never in their wildest dreams could they have imagined that the day they had longed for day and night would turn out to be their final day.
That day, the Heaven and Earth Oddity did indeed complete its awakening — but it had consumed the souls of every villager in order to obtain that chance at awakening.
Most of the villagers had only had half of their souls devoured, which was why they had descended into madness.
But the most tragic fate befell the girl who had cared for it so devotedly — Bai Liluo.
Her soul had been completely devoured. It was precisely because her soul had been entirely consumed that she had died.
After hearing the dark figure's account, Chu Feng's heart was shaken by tremendous waves of emotion.
"Is what you say the truth?" Chu Feng asked.
He found it hard to believe that Bai Liluo could have committed such a cruel act — that she would have snuffed out the life of the person who had cared for her for so many years, and in doing so, condemned the entire village, all for her own benefit.