God of Pets-Chapter 654: One Leaf

Chen Guan didn’t refute the old man, nor did he question the truth of his words. He merely looked at the old man and asked a question: "Old General, when the world was in chaos, why didn’t we see your presence?"

Most of the Great Qin Iron Cavalry followed the Emperor Ancestor to enter the Sky Secret Spirit, and it is said that fewer than ten thousand remained.

Of those remaining Great Qin Iron Cavalry, aside from some stationed soldiers, most were injured or ill, and therefore did not accompany the Emperor Ancestor on his expedition.

Yet of the over ten thousand Grotto Heaven Powerhouses, only a handful appeared later during the chaos.

If the ten thousand Grotto Heaven soldiers had joined the battle, the chaos might not have come so swiftly.

The old man’s expression became very complex upon hearing this question, but he did not refuse to answer Chen Guan’s question.

After a long silence, the old man sighed and said, "I am not an old general, just a low-ranking soldier. The reason for secluding away from the world is because at that time, Qin was no longer Qin."

Chen Guan looked at the old man, waiting quietly for him to continue.

"When the Emperor Ancestor was here, we needed only to fight for Qin, to fight for the Emperor Ancestor. But after the Emperor Ancestor departed, we no longer knew for what purpose we were fighting." The old man said.

Chen Guan paused and after pondering for a moment, understood the old man’s meaning.

When the Emperor Ancestor was absent, Qin had become the ruler of the world, there was no more war, it entered a peaceful era.

In the peaceful era, the professional soldiers who had originally made achievements through warfare had no ground for exertion.

Or perhaps they were still useful, but no one was willing to give them opportunities for advancement, only treating them as tools.

Chen Guan now somewhat believed that this old man was truly an old soldier of the Great Qin Iron Cavalry.

"I still want to give it a try." Chen Guan looked at the old man and said.

"Suit yourself, but after you see it, you probably won’t want to leave here, and you’ll stay to keep company with this old man." The old man shook his head and sighed.

Saying this, the old man stood up, walked to the well in the courtyard and pointed downward: "The thing is below, if you want to see, go and take a look."

Chen Guan came to the well, subconsciously recalling the old saying "Two people don’t look into the well."

He instinctively walked to the opposite side of the old man, to the other side of the well, then lowered his head to look inside the well.

He found the well contained no water, just endless darkness, and no way to gauge its depth.

"You are quite cautious." Seeing Chen Guan’s reaction, the old man couldn’t help but smile.

Chen Guan thought it was nothing, it was better to be cautious. So he asked, "How deep is this well?"

"Below ten thousand meters, you can see the leaf Secret Treasure." The old man replied.

Chen Guan thought, this should be the place the Daoist Mortar spoke of.

"I’ll go down and have a look." Chen Guan said to the old man, then turned and descended into the well.

He had the Mountain-Opening Axe with him, so he wasn’t afraid of the old man sealing the well, and with his Cultivation, he wasn’t worried about any tricks from the old man.

Chen Guan kept descending in the ancient well, with Ghost Immortal Step on him, it was not difficult.

Inside the ancient well, there was indeed nothing. As Chen Guan descended, estimated not quite ten thousand meters down, there was a faint light below.

Finally, when Chen Guan’s feet touched solid ground, he saw clearly the source of the light.

This was a cave deep underground, an empty cave with nothing inside. The faint light came from a leaf.

It was a dried, black tree leaf, slightly larger than Chen Guan’s palm, resembling a maple leaf with a ten centimeter leaf stem.

The whole leaf looked completely inconspicuous, resembling a blackened yellow leaf that had fallen in autumn.

It lay silently atop a stone, with a strange symbol faintly glowing rhythmically on its surface, like a heartbeat, then disappearing, reappearing, and disappearing again.

Chen Guan speculated, the strange light symbol on the leaf must be the power of the Netherworld Emperor suppressing the leaf.

He wanted to summon the Daoist Mortar to ask it, but the Daoist Mortar gave no response, presumably still asleep. Unless it was refining something, it rarely awakened.

"The old man had no issue, so I surely won’t." Chen Guan thought to himself, but he still summoned Ming Fei to take a look, to see if she could figure anything out.

Ming Fei was at the same Level as Chen Guan, now Level 40. She studied the leaf and said, "This leaf is a Secret Treasure, right?"

"It is indeed a Secret Treasure." Chen Guan nodded. He gave Ming Fei no hints, letting her assess on her own.

"This isn’t an Earth Secret Treasure. If I am not mistaken, it should be a Secret Treasure from the Celestial Secret Realm." Ming Fei said, staring at the leaf.

"How can you tell?" Chen Guan asked, intrigued.

"There is a very distinct difference between Celestial Secret Treasures and Earth Secret Treasures." Ming Fei explained slowly: "Celestial Secret Treasures are rejected by the Secret Realm’s power. The light symbol on the leaf is an anomaly caused by the rejection of the Secret Realm’s power."

Chen Guan was slightly startled. Originally he thought the light symbol was the power of the Netherworld Emperor suppressing the leaf, but according to Ming Fei’s words, it wasn’t the Emperor’s power.

"Are you sure this is the Secret Realm power rejecting the Celestial Secret Treasure?" Chen Guan asked.

Ming Fei replied, "You can try to see."

Saying this, Ming Fei reached out to touch the leaf. Her fingers easily touched the leaf, and when the light symbol reappeared, it seemed to pass through her hands without affecting her.

"It was indeed correct; this light symbol is the Secret Realm’s power. It rejects the Celestial Secret Treasure but does not reject life forms from the Secret Realm..." Ming Fei was speaking but suddenly fell silent.

Her fingers touched the leaf, and her expression became increasingly strange.

There she stood smiling, like a hungry 300-pound man having found food, even drooling at the corner of her mouth.

That saliva drew a thread, slowly dripping down.

"Ming Fei... Ming Fei..." Chen Guan called out several times, but Ming Fei did not respond, still standing there motionless with a silly grin.

"What’s happening? Is the leaf’s power affecting her?" Chen Guan was secretly relieved he hadn’t directly touched the leaf.

He called out to Ming Fei as he observed closely.

Ming Fei seemed dazed, her facial expression increasingly foolish, just standing there patting the leaf with a silly grin.

"Could the leaf have spiritual attack capabilities? That’s not right, didn’t the Daoist Mortar say this leaf could make things disappear? How did it have spiritual attack capabilities?" Thoughts flashed in Chen Guan’s mind, but he couldn’t figure out what was going on.

Seeing Ming Fei’s expression growing more peculiar, Chen Guan hurriedly used Fierce Tiger Roar on the Hill, roaring loudly at her: "Ming Fei."