Chapter 0657: The Reasons for the Fall of the Four Seas Empire

Ouyang Ming and the others followed the middle-aged man nervously, startingle at his fierce roars.
They knew somewhat about the feud between this Lord Sand and the head of the War God Sect, but not in detail—only what the old dean had mentioned.
Lord Sand’s agreement with the Divine Wind Academy was actually an agreement with the academy’s former dean.
It was because of Sand’s existence that the three great empires feared the Divine Wind Academy; otherwise, no matter how influential it was, with its students spread across the Hengyuan Continent, it wouldn’t hold such high status.
Suddenly, Sand roared fiercely, with black mist swirling around him. The face within the mist was grotesque and terrifying, covered in fine black lines, with bloodthirsty flames burning in his eyes.
If not for his severe injuries in that battle, he wouldn’t have stayed in Hengyuan!
To Ouyang Ming and the others’ relief, after that sudden roar, Sand didn’t act abnormally anymore, and they flew quietly the rest of the way.
After a while, they flew out of the back mountain, emerged from the inner courtyard, and gradually approached the library.
“Ouyang Ming!” Sand suddenly spoke as they left the inner courtyard.
Ouyang Ming tensed up and quickly stepped forward respectfully, asking, “What instructions do you have, Lord Sand?”
“This time, after I help you deal with that young man, my agreement with your academy will end here. If you want me to intervene again, hehe, you’ll have to offer something good,” Sand said with a shrill laugh.
Ouyang Ming’s face twitched, and Chang Hai and the others also looked extremely upset.
When the old dean was still alive, when would Sand have dared to haggle like this?!
Something good? Was this old freak after the academy’s Divine Realm Magic Core?!
Yet, no matter how angry they were, none dared to voice objections.
“Understood, Lord Sand. Please rest assured!” Ouyang Ming said with his head bowed.
Sand grunted in response.
Before long, the library gradually came into view. Seeing the dense crowd surrounding it, Ouyang Ming and the others frowned.
They knew Lord Sand hated having spectators the most.
Ouyang Ming cautiously glanced at Sand. At that moment, he noticed that Sand’s gaze had sharpened, his expression serious as he stared ahead. Curious, Ouyang Ming followed his line of sight and saw Xil, the two-headed demon tiger, floating above the library.
“A Sacred Realm magical beast?” that thought flashed through Ouyang Ming’s mind.
But what puzzled him was why Lord Sand would look so serious just because of a Sacred Realm magical beast.

As they got closer, Ouyang Ming carefully examined this “Holy Realm Magical Beast,” but found nothing unusual. If there was anything odd, it was that he had never seen this beast before or heard that it belonged to the tiger-type magical beasts.
“Dean!” When Ouyang Ming and the others arrived at the library, the library curator, the senior enforcement team, along with all the teachers and students, respectfully stepped forward to greet them.
Ouyang Ming glanced at Sand. Seeing no abnormality on his face, he relaxed slightly before telling everyone to stand up. Scanning the crowd, he asked, “Where is Vice Dean Yuan Han?”
At Ouyang Ming’s question, a path immediately opened up in the crowd. Several members of the senior enforcement team carried out a person—or rather, a corpse. Ouyang Ming’s eyes narrowed, his expression darkened, and his whole demeanor turned cold. It was indeed Yuan Han’s corpse.
Sand glanced over, his eyes falling on Yuan Han’s body. On the surface, Yuan Han had no external injuries, only a terrified expression on his face. Yet the more Sand looked, the more serious his expression became.
Others couldn’t see the mystery, but he could.
In fact, Yuan Han not only had no external injuries but also no internal injuries!
Yet Yuan Han was dead, killed right in front of everyone’s eyes.
“Lord Sand, what do you think?” Ouyang Ming spoke up then.
“I don’t need you to remind me. I know what to do!” Sand waved his hand and snorted coldly.
Ouyang Ming felt anxious and quickly replied respectfully, not daring to speak again.
The teachers and students of the academy were puzzled by their dean speaking so respectfully, even subserviently, to this person shrouded in dark mist. They all looked at Sand with confused eyes.
Panna in the crowd vaguely guessed Sand’s identity; she had heard her father mention him before.
At that moment, Sand leaped forward and approached the two-headed demon tiger, Xil. Looking at the mountain-sized beast, he frowned. He knew it was the beast’s mount, but if it were a Holy Realm Magical Beast, it should have been terrified and unable to move by now.
The two-headed demon tiger, Xil, looked down at the middle-aged man shrouded in dark mist. A Divine Realm powerhouse? The lowest existence in the Netherworld!
Seeing the man examining him with a serious expression, he couldn’t help but look at him with interest as well.
“Hey, kid, have you had enough? Since I’m in a good mood now, if you’ve seen enough, just get lost!” After a while, seeing that the man still continued to examine him, Xil grew impatient.
He had indeed been in a good mood after leaving the Immortals’ Pavilion; otherwise, he would have slapped him long ago.

Sander’s expression twisted into something ugly—“Little brat?! Get lost?!?” No one in the Hengyuan Realm had ever dared call him a “little brat,” let alone tell him to get lost! Not even that old bastard, the head of the War God Sect! “Seeking death!” Fury surged in Sander’s heart, and the last traces of caution and doubt vanished. He soared upward, his dark combat energy surging out, darkening the surrounding space. But just as he took off, suddenly, a giant foot appeared before him, followed by an overwhelming force. Faced with this power, he was shocked to find he couldn’t even think of resisting. “Is this…?!?” The thought flashed through his mind before his body was flung away. Just like Yuan Han before him, he quickly disappeared from the sight of the teachers and students at Divine Wind Academy. Sander drifted high in the air for thousands of miles, flying out of Divine Wind Academy before crashing down from above Divine Wind City. Chaos reigned in the streets of Divine Wind City. Ouyang Ming, Chang Hai, and the others, who had warmly welcomed Sander, froze with their smiles still on their faces, but their eyes were filled with extreme terror—unlike the other teachers and students, for they knew Sander’s true identity: a Divine Realm beast! And one at the peak of the middle stage of the Divine Realm! At that moment, Xir retracted his beast leg, ignoring the flung Sander, and snorted coldly, “An annoying little brat!” After a pause, he added, “But Lord Zerom’s move seems quite good.” It turned out he had learned that leg strike from the rogue dragon Zerom. After saying that, Xir’s bucket-sized beast eyes scanned Ouyang Ming and the others. Seeing this, they trembled in fear, almost falling from the sky. Just as Xir was about to speak, suddenly, a figure flashed, and the Yellow Dragon appeared high in the air. “Master!” Xir ignored everything else and rushed over to pay his respects. The Yellow Dragon nodded, landed on the two-headed demon tiger, glanced at Ouyang Ming, Panna, and the others, then said, “Let’s go!” With that, he rode off on the two-headed demon tiger and vanished from sight in an instant. When these two terrifying beings, the Yellow Dragon and Xir, left and disappeared completely, Ouyang Ming and the others, who had narrowly escaped death, were too weak to stand and fell from the sky. “Dean!” Seeing this, the teachers and students rushed over to Ouyang Ming and the others.

Ouyang Ming waved his hand to indicate it was fine, then said to Chang Hai and the others, “Let’s go check on Lord Sander!” At that moment, Ouyang Ming’s voice trembled slightly. After speaking, he forced down his fear and flew in the direction Sander had fallen. Seeing this, Chang Hai and the others quickly followed.

After a while, Ouyang Ming and the others finally saw Sander lying on the ground on a street in Divine Wind City. By then, the street was surrounded by a curious crowd, who were pointing and discussing loudly. These commoners had no idea that the middle-aged man in black robes lying on the ground was a powerful being from the Divine Realm.

Ouyang Ming and the others quickly landed and rushed to Sander’s side. Seeing that he was no longer breathing, they couldn’t help but look grim, even though they had expected this.

Lord Sander is dead!

With Lord Sander’s death, they wondered what impact it would have on Divine Wind Academy’s status in the Hengyuan Realm! What scared them even more was that Divine Wind Academy had offended a powerful being far more terrifying than Sander, whose mount was also far stronger than Sander’s.

They felt utterly lost ahead.

Following Ouyang Ming and the others, the teachers and students of Divine Wind Academy also rushed in the direction Sander had fallen. Only Panna stood there motionless.

Yuan Han was dead, and Sander, the greatest asset of Divine Wind Academy—a powerful magical beast from the Divine Realm—was also dead! Once this news spread, one could imagine how chaotic and shaken the Hengyuan Realm would become!

“It seems we must report this to Father as soon as possible!” Panna thought to herself as she regained her composure.

While Divine Wind Academy was in chaos, Huang Long rode on the two-headed demon tiger Xil toward the northern part of the Tanghai Empire. From the ancient books in the library of Divine Wind Academy, Huang Long finally deduced the true reason for the downfall of the Four Seas Empire.

One hundred thousand years ago, before the Realm Wars began, Huang Long, Huang Xiong, Zhao Rong, and others were trapped in the Five Elements Space. When Bishop failed to find them, he took his anger out on the Four Seas Empire of the Hengyuan Realm and sent a higher deity to destroy it.

After the fall of the Four Seas Empire, only a few direct descendants of the Huang family managed to escape.

According to the ancient records, those few survivors fled to the far northern part of the Hengyuan Continent. Based on the current map of the Hengyuan Realm, this would be in the mountains to the north of the Tanghai Empire.

It wasn’t long before Huang Long and Xil arrived at the mountains in the northern part of the Tanghai Empire. These mountains are now known as the Dragon God Mountains in the Hengyuan Realm.

“Dragon God Mountains,” Huang Long stared deeply at the rolling mountains before him. He remembered that when he returned to the Hengyuan Realm, the people there had called him the Dragon God.