Chichi!!
Casually dealing with the revenant noble who was sucking his essence.
After Pure Black recovered his condition, he unhurriedly explored the depths of the Divine Realm.
Passing through a body of water, a golden thunderclap appeared out of nowhere, and Pure Black was fried to a crisp.
"Ouch, you did..."
Pure Black touched his scorched arm. He was a bit frustrated. Besides the abundance of revenants, another notable feature of the Divine Realm was the prevalence of lightning.
Thunderclaps would occasionally sound in the sky, and the VR physics engine of "Sekiro" was too excellent. Anything that could conduct electricity and came into contact with his body would indirectly be struck by lightning.
This wasn't the most infuriating part!
What was truly absurd was that the dogs commonly found throughout the Divine Realm could also unleash lightning. Was there any way to live?
It was as if this place was the backyard of the Thunder God.
The heavenly lightning that once seemed so magnificent was now so common that even dogs in the Divine Realm wouldn't bother with it.
If this were to be said, it might be met with laughter.
Xie Ichiro: "I feel personally attacked!"
"Hello there, young man..."
Returning to a dwelling, an old woman with a red sash tied around her waist suddenly spoke, startling Pure Black. He cautiously approached the old woman.
"Young man, please be careful."
"The nobles of the palace crave young essence."
"They are very eager to absorb essence, and I can hardly bear it."
In the rare instance of the Divine Realm, filled with demons and monsters, there was a kind old grandmother.
This warmed Pure Black's heart, which had been filled with negativity, and he subconsciously nodded. "Mm."
"Especially ahead, the central courtyard is a gate to hell. The palace nobles are in groups... If you must go forward, go around the lush green."
"Why are you asking me?" Although he already knew that nobles liked to absorb essence, it was still kind of someone to warn him at this moment, and Pure Black reciprocated with his own goodwill.
"There is something I hope to entrust to you, young man, about my father... When Father became a noble, he was bewitched by the carp parasites. For a long time now, he has been continuously feeding the carp."
The old woman pleaded, "Young man, please help my father escape the curse of the carp. This form of eternity may not be what Father desired."
Father?
Pure Black looked up and carefully examined the wrinkled, white-haired, and even cloudy-eyed old woman before him. How old must his father be?
Wait a minute!!
Pure Black stood frozen. It was as if a bolt of lightning struck his mind, and a terrible thought emerged:
Could this old woman before him be a maiden in her prime or a young girl?
And then she was absorbed by the mutated nobles, aging into this state?
His eyes widened, and anger began to burn within him.
He had thought that this essence-absorbing monster only targeted players, but he never expected these disgusting monsters to absorb even their own kind.
The old woman before him didn't have the player's revival cheat, her vitality had not fully recovered to its youthful state.
Ordinary people whose essence was absorbed permanently lost their lifespan!
"I will kill them all!!!"
"I will find the source of all this and kill them all together!!"
Pure Black's voice was cold, but surprisingly, the viewers did not mock or question the streamer's arrogance.
Chichichichi!!!
Chichi!!
Chichichichi!!!
For the next half hour, Pure Black did not advance the plot at all. He merely went on a rampage in the Divine Realm, slaughtering those disgusting essence-absorbing monsters that were entirely blue and had octopus tentacles for feet.
This included countless dogs that could unleash lightning, as well as elite monsters such as Waterborne Flower Wolf and Seven-Men Warrior.
After slaughtering to his heart's content, Pure Black's conviction was clear.
"Huff, that was satisfying!"
Stretching himself and organizing his equipment, Pure Black continued to advance the plot. As for the father mentioned by the old woman, he would try to save him if he encountered him, otherwise, he would leave it to fate.
Later, Pure Black encountered the perpetrator who had been zapping him in the water – the person who actively drew lightning from atop the mountains.
So, the heavenly lightning wasn't naturally formed.
Instead, someone was specifically targeting this body of water, drawing lightning to destroy anyone who intruded.
A clever tactic!
Killing the lightning-drawing person with a single blow, Pure Black felt a great sense of relief.
Without artificial lightning, the lake before him was a safe haven.
He didn't waste any words and immediately dived to the bottom of the lake.
In "Sekiro," whether in the sky, on the ground, or underwater, any explorable area could contain clues.
He had already scoured the Divine Realm on the ground, and only the seabed remained unsearched for clues.
Gugugugugu!!!
Bubbles slid past his cheeks and floated straight towards the surface. Pure Black plunged in the opposite direction, going deeper.
As soon as he reached the bottom, he encountered a familiar old friend, the Headless.
These headless, white-haired, sword-wielding corpses at the bottom of the water seemed to be placed in every underwater location of the world in an organized, planned, and premeditated manner, as if guarding some secret.
At least, Pure Black encountered Headless every time he dived to the seabed. This creature was comparable to an elite monster in terms of strength, but its actions were somewhat restricted in the water.
Active items such as firecrackers, oil, and fire could not be used.
With this reduction in advantage, the Headless posed a considerable threat to ordinary players. However, for Pure Black, it was merely a few perfect deflections followed by a stealth kill.
With swift efficiency, he easily dealt with the Headless and began to search for the treasures guarded by them.
Most of them were items like scales of precious carp. Beside a chest on the seabed lay the skeleton of a giant fish, emitting a faint, eerie glow. This was the skeleton of the Divine Dragon.
Based on scattered clues, Pure Black inferred that the revitalizing water and the parasitic infestation might be related to the Divine Dragon.
These glowing skeletons might be the color of the parasites after the Divine Dragon's death, and it was precisely these parasites that caused the water pollution.
As the water flowed from the Divine Realm downstream, it caused the creatures along the downstream streams to gradually become infested with parasites.
The guardian dog of the Divine Realm, the Guardian Ape, obtained parasitic infestation after eating the meat of the Divine Dragon. This could be verified by the accurate information Pure Black obtained after digesting the memory of his fight with the Guardian Ape.
Therefore,
A grand storyline began to unfold very clearly: A long time ago, the Guardian Ape, in pursuit of eternal life, came to the Divine Realm because of the immortal Divine Dragon that existed there.
Upon devouring the Divine Dragon raw, the Guardian Ape attained eternal life, while the Divine Dragon's skeleton sank to the bottom of the Divine Realm's lake and flowed downstream to the outskirts of Ashina Castle.
The Divine Monkey, which drank the lake water along the way, also transformed into a parasitic monster. Senpou Temple, being close to the water source, was also researching immortality, hence most of its abbots also became infested and even conducted numerous experiments to replicate the Dragon's Heritage.
The reason for this was nothing more than the fact that parasitic infestation had certain drawbacks, otherwise, why would the Immortal Senpou, an old fellow already infested, have died?
As for why the Divine Realm became this way, it's hard to say, but from Pure Black's perspective, although the Divine Realm appeared beautiful on the surface, with countless people vying to enter it and become Celestial Dragons,
In reality, it was terrifying. The nobles and Celestial Dragons of the Divine Realm were extremely eager for eternal life. Their obsession with immortality had become a mad obsession, so much so that they could no longer be called human.
It was too twisted!
Pure Black found it frightening just thinking about it.
Both the Divine Realm and Senpou Temple were like this: the most beautiful places housed the ugliest people!
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