Chapter 4897: A Taoist Corpse

Fang Yu sat back in his chair and said, "Go ahead, let's talk about your identity first."

"My identity... Hehe, if I tell you that in practical terms, I have no identity, can you understand?" Tianzun smiled and asked back.

Fang Yu narrowed his eyes and said, "You mean... you are no longer a living being, you are actually dead... right?"

"It seems that you already know something." Tianzun was not surprised by Fang Yu's guess and said, "Just as you guessed, it is true... I am not a living being, I am a corpse."

The previous guess became a reality, but Fang Yu's face showed surprise.

A corpse can still retain consciousness? Can it still communicate normally, and even practice?

What is the difference between such a corpse and a normal living being?

Aren't living corpses also living beings?

"From the point of time, I have died in the Seventh Immortal Realm War." Tianzun continued, "From then on, I am a corpse, without any vitality."

"It has been a long time since the Seventh Immortal Realm War. You died at that time... Why are you still here as Tianzun now?" Fang Yu frowned and asked.

"How can I continue to this day in the form of a corpse... The answer is in the scarlet scroll in your hand." Tianzun replied, "That is the highest secret of our tribe."

Fang Yu remembered what Mingxu said and asked, "What tribe are you from?"

"The Dao tribe." Tianzun replied.

"The Dao tribe?" Fang Yu was stunned for a moment.

Such a concise tribe name made him unable to react for a while.

"Yes, the Dao tribe." Tianzun replied, "Have you not heard of it?"

"Uh... No, but this name sounds like a super tribe." Fang Yu replied.

"Super tribe... Hehe, the former Dao tribe, it is indeed." Tianzun laughed again.

His smile was dry and cold, sounding emotionless, but instead exuding a weird and terrifying feeling.

Fang Yu was also a little surprised at this moment.

Gods, demons, monsters, etc... He had heard of all kinds of tribes.

But the Dao tribe, a tribe that sounded like it should exist, he had never heard of it!

This was a very strange thing.

"The Dao tribe once stood at the top of the fairy world, just like the human race in the past and the gods now, it was the existence that ruled the fairy world." Tianzun said.

"So strong?" Fang Yu was surprised, "Then why haven't I even heard of it now?"

After asking this question, he knew the answer himself.

Just like when in the Jitian Fairyland, there were not many records of the Minggui tribe in various history books...

Obviously, the traces left by the Dao tribe in history have been erased by the later tribes.

Especially the current gods, even the traces of the human race have been almost wiped out, not to mention the Dao tribe in the earlier period.

But how did the Dao tribe decline?

Who can make a race that once stood at the top of the fairy world decline?

Is it like the human race in the past, besieged by all races?

"The decline of the Dao race is due to the fairy war." Tianzun said.

His tone was still calm.

"From the first fairy war to the seventh fairy war... every fairy war, the Dao race will be weakened a little, until the seventh fairy war... which is also the most recent fairy war we know... the Dao race is completely destroyed." Tianzun said.

"Fairy war..." Fang Yu's heart was shaken, and he said, "Then, what caused the fairy war?"

"I don't know, I only know... Fairy war is inevitable, it will always happen, every time it happens, it will create some new powerful clans, and it will also cause some powerful clans in the past to decline." Tianzun said, "Every fairy war is a reconstruction of the fairy world."

Fang Yu nodded and agreed with this view.

"During the seventh Immortal Realm War, our Dao Clan had actually declined to the extreme, and was not even enough to become a rival to some large clans... However, the God Clan did not let us go. One of their pure-blooded clans took action and destroyed all the foundations of our Dao Clan and killed the remaining bloodlines of our Dao Clan... Including me." Tianzun continued.

"It was after that time that you died." Fang Yu said.

"Yes, but through the scarlet scroll, my consciousness continued. Although I am still a corpse, but..." Tianzun paused, "I can do a lot of things."

"So, what kind of form are you in now?" Fang Yu frowned and said, "If you are a corpse, then you should not be alive. Even if your consciousness continues, you are still a living being, not a corpse."

"No, I am a corpse, a Taoist corpse." Tianzun replied.

Taoist corpse! ?

Fang Yu's heart was shocked, and he said, "What's the difference between you and a living being?"

"The difference is that my existence violates the law of life... Therefore, every day I exist, I am suffering from the backlash of cause and effect." Tianzun replied, "These ribbons on the surface of my body are not used to cover my face, but to isolate the death energy emanating from me."

"I am not a living being, and this can never be changed. Even if I can do everything a living being can do, I am still a corpse, a corpse that should have died in the Seventh Immortal Realm War."

These words made Fang Yu's heart tremble even more violently.

He suddenly remembered the exiled ghost fairy he had faced before!

The ghost immortal between life and death also suffered the backlash of cause and effect!

And the Tianzun in front of him... said that he had died a long time ago and was suffering from the backlash of cause and effect all the time!

"What will the backlash of cause and effect bring to you?" Fang Yu asked.

"It is devouring my memory and destroying my will." Tianzun replied, "For me, the pain is getting worse every moment..."