The first thing that comes to mind is the contract that Xia Chao and Qiushi are very familiar with - the master-servant contract.
It's just that the usage of the master-servant contract on the mural is very different from the current Lingxi world.
Xia Chao saw the powerful contract beast on the mural surrendering at the feet of the human race and being loyal to the human race. The annotation on the side showed that this was a master-servant contract, and the mark held by the human race symbolized the master's intention.
"When the master-servant contract was first used, humans were the masters and the contracted beasts were the slaves. It is the opposite from now."
Xiaoqing and Bonewing White Tiger were angry and dissatisfied with the previous era.
Why should humans be their masters?
Xia Chao ignored Xiao Qing, who was hanging on his neck and rolling his eyes, and continued to try to decipher the content of the mural.
The murals don't seem to record something as a souvenir. Instead, they seem to go crazy in despair and want to record everything and leave their own traces in the world.
Therefore, the murals and annotations are not easily identifiable.
It is unimaginable what could have happened to force a monk who was at least in the late stage of divine transformation into a desperate situation.
"Although they have signed a master-servant contract, the human race does not treat the contracted beasts as slaves and call them here and there at will. Instead, they treat the contracted beasts as friends and give them equal status."
"Contract beasts help humans practice, so some humans start to study the laws of various things in their spare time, summarize the laws, and use spiritual energy as a driving method."
"This method greatly promotes production and facilitates humans and contracted beasts..."
"More and more contracted beasts are falling in love with the human race's technology, voluntarily signing contracts, becoming slaves, and serving the human race."
"Humans and contract beasts develop harmoniously, and both sides become stronger and stronger."
"One day, a strange monster appeared. It had a snake-like body and nine heads. No one dared to sign a contract with the strange monster."
"A man named 'Ba' signed a contract with this monster."
"The nine-headed contracted beast cultivates very quickly. Due to the effect of the master-servant contract, the slave's cultivation level cannot surpass the master. 'Ba''s cultivation level is always one level higher than that of the nine-headed contracted beast."
"When the nine-headed contracted beast reaches the stage of becoming a god, it opens its spiritual wisdom, inherits the memories of its ancestors in its bloodline, and finally understands its own life experience."
"The contracted beast with nine heads is named Xiangliu. It is a species of fairy beast. It has an atavism phenomenon in it. The purity of its bloodline is highly consistent with its ancestors. This is why it cultivates so fast."
"Later, after continuous fighting and fighting, Xiang Liu became the period of transcending tribulation, and 'Ba' also became the period of transcending tribulation."
"At this time, people realized that above the integration stage is the tribulation stage."
"After that, Xiang Liu will become an immortal, and 'Ba' will also become an immortal."
In the mural, Xiang Liu, who is taller than the mountain, stretches out his nine heads to resist the catastrophe of becoming an immortal. "Ba" stands next to Xiang Liu, asking Xiang Liu to block the catastrophe of becoming an immortal for him.
The ladder to immortality appears, and Xiang Liu and "Ba" become immortals.
"This is both the first and the last person to ascend in the Lingxi world. Whenever someone asks how to become the Tribulation Stage, 'Ba' and Xiang Liu are worried that someone will surpass them, so they keep silent about it."
"No one in Lingxi World has ever become an immortal."
Seeing this, Jiang Li shook his head slightly, and "Ba" and Xiang Liu openly said that being in the Tribulation Stage was the one who harmed the world of Lingxi.
It's a pity that people in Lingxi World didn't understand his meaning and thought that "Ba" and Xiang Liu were unwilling to share their experiences.
"After one person and one beast ascended, they never came back. Perhaps they ascended to the fairy world and could not come back down."
After Xia Chao read the notes on the mural, he turned to ask Jiang Li.
"is that so?"
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"Of course not. As long as there is a ladder to immortality, an immortal can go from the immortal world to any world, including the world he ascended to."
"Then why haven't they come back?" Qiushi was puzzled.
"Because 'Ba' has never practiced, it is equivalent to becoming an immortal lying down. Although he has reached the immortal level, his actual combat ability is far inferior to that of the same level. The immortal world is not a place where harmony and wealth can be made. After he ascends, he may Died in battle. Due to the existence of the master-servant contract, when the master dies, Xiang Liu will also die."
"But these are just guesses and may not be accurate."
"Although 'Ba' and Xiang Liu did not come back, they left a rich legacy before their ascension. The world of Lingxi has developed explosively. The number of contracted beasts and monks in the integration period has continued to increase. Various bounty competitions, world competitions, and league competitions have been held. , both humans and contract beasts are happy to participate in the competition and gain fame and wealth."
On the mural, people and contract beasts are holding hands, with happy smiles on both sides.
"Everything was going in a good direction, but suddenly one day, a contracted beast became the tribulation period, but its owner did not."
"I don't know what method this contracted beast used to break the contract and break away from control."
"This contracted beast seems to hate both humans and monsters. It has a violent temper and has killed countless people."
"Humans and monsters want to resist, but unfortunately they have no power to fight back when facing the second Tribulation Stage."
On the mural, a monkey with a red head and white feet grins and looks ugly. At first glance, it looks like a ferocious monster.
Xia Chao and Qiu Shi have never seen this kind of monkey.
"It's Zhu Yan. Judging from Zhu Yan's appearance on the mural, I'm afraid he's another atavist." Jiang Li and Bai Xueling both recognized him. Zhu Yan was also an immortal beast with a powerful bloodline.
Xia Chao continued to interpret the mural: "People had no choice but to hide in the air raid shelters, hoping to block the terrifying contract beast."
"That contracted beast made humans no longer trust other contracted beasts. People abandoned the contracted beasts and hid alone in air-raid shelters."
"The human race has built hundreds of large air-raid shelters, but every day we receive news that a certain air-raid shelter has collapsed. That contracted beast seems to be looking for something, what could it be?"
"It seems to have discovered that human beings can communicate using radio, and for some unknown reason, it broke off the contact."
"We have completely lost contact with the outside world."
"That contract beast is coming..."
The mural ends here, and the monk who painted the mural did not finish the last sentence.
Although it was not written, everyone could guess that Zhu Yan, who was in the tribulation period, broke open the door and broke into the air-raid shelter. No one was spared, including the mural author.
Although the author of the mural is in the late stage of becoming a god or even in the integration stage, in front of Zhu Yan who is in the tribulation stage, there is no difference and he can only let him slaughter him.
"Gone?" Xia Chao didn't expect that the original era was destroyed by a Zhu Yan.
But how Zhu Yan broke the master-servant contract, why he hated humans, and where he is now are all unknown.
"Maybe there will be a follow-up." Jiang Li used his spiritual consciousness to scan the air-raid shelter and found something interesting.
Bai Xueling also discovered it.
The air-raid shelter is like a giant maze. Without a map, it is easy to get lost.
Under the leadership of Jiang Li, everyone came to a small room. There was a scattered corpse in the room. It was unclear whether it belonged to one person or several people.
Jiang Li picked up a diary. After two thousand years, the paper was so fragile that Jiang Li refined it a little to increase its strength and toughness.
The first page of the diary reads:
"Today I signed a master-servant contract with a little monkey with a red head and white feet."