After Austin returned to the queen's palace, the old priest reported his conversation with Austin in detail to the queen.
Once she heard the good news that the seal could be destroyed, the queen was suddenly thrilled and let out a sigh of relief. She had always longed for the day when she could finally be free from this palace which became her prison.
So the queen instantly changed her attitude towards Austin. She began to treat Austin and his friends as distinguished guests in the palace as if she never tried to kill him in the first place. In order to show her apologies for her previous rudeness, the queen held a banquet in honor of them.
While they enjoyed the delicacies laid before them, Austin started to converse with the queen and got to know her and her race even better. And just as he had previously thought, they were not human beings at all. Instead, they belonged to the evil shadow race.
The evil shadow race was a special race which had a very long history. Back then, the evil shadow race did not have many members as compared with other races, but everybody knew of their existence. That was because there were countless powerful members in the evil shadow race. Their capabilities were known far and wide.
Austin finally understood why the queen and her people were sealed in this small alternate dimension in the first place.
It turned out that they incurred the wrath of an extreme powerful creature a thousand years ago.
Driven by the rage, the formidable enemy decided to slaughter one-by-one all the members of the evil shadow race and erased them from existence.
To avoid their total annihilation, the former leader of the evil shadow race found the small alternate dimension which was the perfect hiding place which can fit all of them. The former leader's cultivation base was already at the Emperor Realm. So he was powerful enough to seal some members of his race into the small alternate dimension. It was like a Noah's Ark in order for their race to continue existing.
As time flew by, the remaining members of the evil shadow race had lived in the small alternate dimension for a thousand years, unable to even get out and see a glimpse of the outside world.
Austin sighed deeply and pitied the evil shadow race after he found out the pain and suffering that they all have to go through in order to survive.
He could never imagine that the evil shadow race who lived in the small alternate dimension were actually sealed by the former elderly leader. But then again, he had no other choice back then. It was either perish or stay hidden in this dimension.
Since a thousand years had already passed, the evil shadow race's enemy might have already died.
But even if the enemy was still alive, he might have already forget his hatred for the evil shadow race. It had been a long time after all. No one could possibly bear such hatred for someone for so long.
So all the members of the evil shadow race were quite desperate to leave the small alternate dimension. They wished to finally be free of this place which used to be a safe haven but had turned into a prison.
But more than anything, the evil shadow race found it extremely difficult to cultivate in the small alternate dimension.
The energy contained in this small alternate dimension, which also powered the entire dimension and kept it stable, repelled against the cultivation of the evil shadow race. It was as if it couldn't handle such high energy cultivation.
What they needed for cultivation was the evil energy. Although the small alternate dimension was full of spiritual energy, only a minimal amount of evil energy existed here.
Confined in the small alternate dimension, the power of the evil shadow race slowly faded. And because they couldn't cultivate properly, the once mighty and feared race had been reduced to a pitiful group of people.
They were desperate to go to the outside world and find a place rich in evil energy. That was why the evil shadow race wanted to leave the small alternate dimension more than anything. The evil energy was as important as food itself for their race. To not have it meant starvation and weakening of their body.
Austin was like a ray of sunshine for them. He gave the evil shadow race hope to leave the small alternate dimension earlier because he mastered the Unearthly Fire. They needed the power of the Unearthly Fire to break the seal.
After the queen's explanation, Austin finally saw the bigger picture of everything.
However, Austin was amazed that Emma and Debby were actually the princesses of the evil shadow race.
It took Austin quite a while to wrap his head around everything that had just happened. The Xian Clan in the Water City where Emma and Debby lived were actually not humans, instead they all belonged to the evil shadow race.
Back then, the former leader of the evil shadow race also sealed the blood power of several other members of his race. He turned them into human after he sealed more members in the small alternate dimension. The members of the evil shadow race whose blood power were sealed were responsible for guarding and protecting the small alternate dimension's entrance, which was called the Xian Clan's Shrine.
After their blood power was sealed, their appearances looked just like the normal human. The seal acted as a camouflage so that they could live normally among humans.
They were able to get married and produce off-springs with normal humans. Their numbers grew and later on became the Xian Clan of the Water City, all the while guarding the entrance of the small alternate dimension.
Only a few days have passed since the queen activated the blood power of all the members of the Xian Clan members after they had entered the small alternate dimension.
After she ran a test on all the people, the queen discovered that Emma and Debby's blood were ninety percent pure.
The purity of their blood was even higher than that of the queen, who was just seventy percent pure.
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