The old general’s duty was to guard the Immortal Relics, preventing outsiders from entering. Only Senior Sister, Lu Yang, and the immortal ghost within Lu Yang were allowed to enter the Immortal Relics.

Upon entering the Immortal Relics, Lu Yang didn’t feel unfamiliar.

The Immortal Sect’s Yanjiang branch had a secret realm, which was built entirely according to the Immortal Relics, aiming to enhance the sense of belonging and faith in the Immortal Beings.

The platforms floating in the air, the ancient buildings on the platforms, everything was familiar. The buildings had collapsed under the ravages of time, making it hard to imagine their original appearance.

Senior Sister snapped her fingers, and the collapsed buildings floated up, piecing together to form their original shape, as if time was flowing backward.

The architectural style was different from the contemporary one, but these buildings had nothing to do with the word “ancient”.

Contemporary architecture began in the Daqian era and evolved over three hundred thousand years, changing with the times.

The ancient era had lasted for more than three hundred thousand years. By the end of the ancient era, arts, language, and other aspects were highly developed, not inferior to the present, with the only difference being the style.

The main body of the building was majestic, with pavilions scattered in an orderly manner. Even the main gate was inlaid with yellow jade, green jade, and red gold, exuding a grand aura.

“Do you recognize these buildings, senior?” Yun Zhi asked.

In the ruins, there were only the three of them. The Immortal Fairy didn’t need to hide her whereabouts and came out of the spiritual space.

She carefully examined these buildings, then gently shook her head: “I don’t recognize these buildings. Although I don’t understand architectural styles, I always feel that these don’t seem to be from our era.”

Yun Zhi rarely showed a surprised expression: “According to the Daxia Dynasty’s identification, this relic existed between three hundred thousand and four hundred thousand years ago. The Daxia Dynasty has never made a mistake in time identification.”

“Moreover, the architectural style and layout here do not match the early Daqian period.”

“The academic community generally believes that with the ancient Nameless refining the stars, the glorious ancient era was destroyed, along with countless wealth.”

“So when the Daqian Dynasty was just established, it advocated frugality, reduced taxes and rents. Looking at the buildings in the Immortal Relics, they are not extravagant, but they are not frugal either.”

These were not Yun Zhi’s words, but what the scholars organized by the court wrote in the report submitted to the Emperor of Daxia after investigating here.

“I don’t know then.” The Immortal Fairy honestly said, she was not good at thinking about these issues.

Lu Yang remained silent from beginning to end. He didn’t expect to encounter difficulties from the start of exploring the relics, not even determining the era in which the relics were located.

Moving forward, there were the murals that Lu Yang was familiar with.

On the mural, an Immortal Being, whose gender was indistinguishable, spread its arms. The Immortal Being held countless planets in its arms, and on each planet, a small figure was kneeling, offering gifts to the Immortal Being.

Thinking back to four months ago, the head of the Yanjiang branch brought Lu Yang and the others into the secret realm, introduced the origin of the Immortal Being in front of the mural, and let Lu Yang and the others know about the hardship of the ancient Nameless refining the planets.

Things have changed, Lu Yang sighed. It hasn’t been long, the head of the branch was such a good person, but he disappeared suddenly. The murderer is still at large, unpunished.

On the right side of the mural was a large section of text that Lu Yang couldn’t understand.

“Is this the language of the ancient era?”

Yun Zhi nodded and gave Lu Yang a simple translation. The general meaning was that the Immortal Being protected the human race in the ancient times, fought against the ancient Nameless, died from exhaustion, but as long as the name of the Immortal Being was recited, it could be revived.

Now it was certain that this part of history was fabricated. Neither the Immortal Fairy Huang Doudou nor the Immortal Being had ever done such a thing.

The Immortal Fairy had fallen before the ancient Nameless refined the stars, and the Immortal Being was only a few months old.

“So this is actually a relic from the ancient era?” Lu Yang frowned, feeling that things wouldn’t be so simple.

Yun Zhi shook her head: “If it were before, I would think so. But after what senior said, I feel that the text on the mural might have been deliberately left by the people behind the scenes to mislead us.”

Yun Zhi turned her head and asked the Immortal Fairy: “Senior, I just translated most of the text. In the current era, people can’t fully translate the ancient language, like this signature, the scholars sent by the court, and I, can’t translate it.”

The Immortal Fairy looked at the signature, frowned in silence. Of course, she could understand it, but the sentence was strange, so strange that she thought she had read it wrong.

She read it word by word: “May the Immortal Being bless, the Firewood Dynasty lasts forever.”

The Immortal Fairy then asked: “What is the Firewood Dynasty?”

Lu Yang was also curious, he had never heard of a dynasty called “Firewood”.Looking at the timeline, the ancient era ended, and the Da Qian Dynasty was established from the ruins. A hundred thousand years later, the Da Yu Dynasty replaced the Da Qian Dynasty. Another hundred thousand years passed, and the Da Xia Dynasty replaced the Da Yu Dynasty, lasting until today.

There was simply no place for the Xin Huo Dynasty.

The Xin Huo Dynasty couldn’t possibly have existed in the ancient times, according to the Immortal Fairy.

Lu Yang and the Immortal Fairy both turned to Yun Zhi, hoping for an answer.

Yun Zhi frowned slightly, also puzzled by this, “I’ve never heard of the Xin Huo Dynasty either. Could it be that there was a Xin Huo Dynasty in the ancient times?”

Lu Yang denied this possibility, “Impossible. The Fairy once told me that there were only tribes in the ancient times, and concepts like ‘dynasty’ and ‘law’ didn’t even exist.”

The Immortal Fairy nodded.

Lu Yang proposed a hypothesis, “Could it be possible that the concept of a dynasty emerged after the Fairy’s fall, and a dynasty was established?”

Yun Zhi shook her head, “After the senior’s fall, the nameless ancient quickly refined the continent, erasing all those who knew the Fairy’s real name. The time difference between these two events wouldn’t be too long. It’s impossible to establish a dynasty in such a short time.”

What Yun Zhi meant was that the fall of the Immortal Fairy marked the beginning of the end of the ancient era.

Lu Yang seemed to have thought of something, but this speculation was too frightening, completely overturning people’s understanding.

“Since all doubts have been ruled out, there are only two possibilities left.”

“The first possibility is that the mural was the work of the mastermind behind the scenes, who fabricated a non-existent ‘Xin Huo Dynasty’ to confuse us.”

“The problem with the first possibility is that fabricating a non-existent dynasty is too easy to be exposed, and it makes no sense to fabricate it.”

“The second possibility is that there was another dynasty between the ancient times and the Da Qian era, called the Xin Huo Dynasty.”

“The Xin Huo Dynasty was the first dynasty in history, and it inherited from the ancient times, used the ancient language, obtained the ancient wealth. When the Xin Huo Dynasty was destroyed, the ancient inheritance was completely cut off.”

“The problem with the second possibility is, why does no one know about the existence of the Xin Huo Dynasty? Wouldn’t the birth and destruction of a dynasty leave any trace?”

(End of the chapter)