Divine Beast Creator

Chapter 2347 - 2348: The Transformation of Kastantos

After exploring the new city of Kashantos, Feng Yuan and his companions didn’t completely believe what the High Priest said. However, through various clues, they could infer a few things, indirectly confirming that part of the High Priest’s words were true. The reason they didn’t accept everything was solely because they couldn’t be sure of the authenticity of the unverified portions.

The most potent lies aren’t entirely false; lies that are nine truths and one falsehood, deceiving at crucial points, are the most troublesome. A slight oversight can lead to results contrary to the truth.

Therefore, even if part of the truth is confirmed, it doesn’t hold much significance for Feng Yuan and his group. They cannot ensure whether the remaining parts have any issues.

"It seems like we’re entering a particularly troublesome stage of investigation, but whatever, at least we have plenty of clues for now. How about returning to the present?"

Feng Yuan shrugged at Agunas, not because he was backing out, but because remaining here wouldn’t lead to any substantial investigation.

The group and the Divine Beasts had long left the Kashantos Holy City, and even investigating the entire Northern Snow Plains might not yield anything substantial. Feng Yuan felt it was unlikely that the group was still in the Northern Snow Plain; otherwise, they would’ve appeared during the war’s edge.

As for what’s inside the Cave of Garomar, although they couldn’t break the seal laid down by the Divine Beasts together, they could still harness the energy leaked from it without much difficulty.

However, to avoid getting entangled in external disputes, they chose to study the Salonto of the Mythical Era.

According to clues unearthed in the Kashantos Holy City, Salonto indeed had trade relations with the Kashantos Holy City, as for Salonto, all Mythical Era civilizations and technologies were objects of their admiration and research.

Being a civilization from the Mythical Era, Kashantos naturally gained Salonto’s friendship easily, although Kashantos here dared not freely spread those technologies.

Rather than being afraid they would use those technologies against them, it’s more about fearing the consequence of disrupting the existing order, leading the Divine Beasts to their doorstep.

With Divine Beings gone and Divine Beasts distant, present-day Kashantos is managed and ruled by ordinary people, giving their foreign strategies a unique appearance.

Veronia didn’t favor these approaches much but said nothing, as overly arrogant actions might not be good for ordinary people.

Agunas flicked its tail, understanding that staying here longer might not yield more clues. The only one feeling at ease was Milos Lulu, as the current clues already proved one thing: Coletos wasn’t colluding with Kashantos.

It’s merely trade interactions, having no substantial impact on Coletos, especially since, in its view, future trade between Coletos and Kashantos is already halted, at least in its eyes.

In this event, Coletos had emerged from danger, allowing Milos Lulu to adopt a more relaxed attitude towards the situation.

"Let’s head back then."

Ultimately, Agunas decided to return to the present, as staying here might not uncover useful clues. Feng Yuan didn’t mention it, but it wouldn’t forget that Kashantos Holy City still hadn’t revealed itself in the present.

According to the Kashantos people’s faith, they wouldn’t easily give up this place; therefore, in the present, either something has happened here, or they have successfully integrated into surrounding countries and completely concealed themselves.

To Agunas and its companions, the likelihood of concealment is high, as destroying Kashantos Holy City would create quite a stir, and might provoke revenge from the Divine Beasts. It’s impossible to achieve anything silently.

Whether those Divine Beasts are hiding or secretly engaging in misdeeds, Agunas is unclear. Its intuition tells it that this matter is challenging to investigate.

Considering Mythical Era Divine Beasts are top-level Divine Beasts, even casually finding a place to nest makes them difficult to locate.

Leaving the Kashantos Holy City, Agunas directly led everyone back, but landed not near Kashantos Holy City but in Loreman City.

"We’ve returned, hmm, seems like nothing has changed, looks like our luck isn’t bad."

Glancing around, Feng Yuan said, noticing no change in the surroundings, implying they hadn’t altered history. They merely went back in time to investigate; this situation is the best-case scenario.

"I want to go to Kashantos Holy City; I want to see how the present-day Kashantos Holy City has transformed."

Agunas looked at Feng Yuan and said, smiling. Feng Yuan replied,

"Let’s go together; I’m curious too about the state of the modern Kashantos Holy City."

With a sense of detachment from Coletos, Milos Lulu accompanied Feng Yuan and the others in space travel, adopting an attitude of mere spectator amusement. Utilizing the spatial coordinates Feng Yuan had noted, they once again arrived at Kashantos Sacred Mountain.

Unlike what they had seen before, the old city was now enveloped by a barrier. Feng Yuan recognized it as a barrier confining temporal changes. Although it wouldn’t result in immediate time flow completion upon barrier removal, such a confining barrier couldn’t be freely exited and entered.

Feng Yuan wasn’t surprised by this, as the old city had already deteriorated, unable to resist the effects of time passage on its own. Thus, preserving it this way for posterity wasn’t unexpected.

What surprised Feng Yuan were additional several new cities. The Holy City they previously visited seemed deserted, at least appearing uninhabited.

Upon seeing those new cities, Milos Lulu felt uneasy; those new cities evolved almost similarly to Coletos’s towns.

This indicates that Kashantos and Coletos likely have continued contact secretly, or perhaps they’ve already merged.

Just as Feng Yuan pondered how to integrate into the scene, a female High Priest approached. Although wearing priest robes, compared to the priests of old, her robes inevitably bore influences from Coletos’s civilization.

"Are you possibly the future guests mentioned by Master Damas?"

"According to Master Damas’s instructions, we’ve been searching for their traces tirelessly. However, despite originating from the same civilization, we couldn’t locate them."

The female High Priest glanced at Feng Yuan’s forgotten emblem and explained, causing Feng Yuan to scratch his head awkwardly; he hadn’t anticipated such arrangements from the priest.

As for the possibility of the other party deducing their arrival in the future, that wasn’t impossible. Mythical Era civilizations had profound understanding of such matters, making this conjecture relatively easy.

And it’s unsurprising that they couldn’t find the Divine Beasts. Even if High Priest Damas’s statements were entirely truthful, they might not locate those Divine Beasts. In the present Kashantos Holy City, the inhabitants were ordinary people.

No, Feng Yuan could discern they had integrated into this new era, where Beast Tamers were seen everywhere. Compared to them, the Mythological Remnants in the Parallel World truly lingered in the past. Even evolving forwards, they couldn’t directly adapt to this new world.

Perhaps precisely due to integration into the new era, the once-new city was abandoned, or preserved.

After all, during that period of new city construction, Beastmasters hadn’t yet been popularized, and the culture was straddling the transition between two eras.

The newly established cities unsurprisingly adopted naming styles akin to Coletos, making Milos Lulu notably uneasy.

Feng Yuan was unperturbed by it. Contact between Kashantos and Coletos wasn’t inherently bad. At least the current Kashantos seemed more trustworthy.

A nation isolated from cultures couldn’t reassure Agunas and its kind. It indicated conflict with the existing culture, potentially harboring hostility towards other regions.

Joint culture was different; at least, Kashantos wielded technologies capable of easily occupying a territory.

The Northern Snow Plains were vast with land, but they appeared uninterested in more territory.

Feng Yuan’s group wasn’t focused on Milos Lulu’s thoughts. What they were chiefly concerned about were the changes on Kashantos Sacred Mountain and the whereabouts of those Divine Beasts during this period.