The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

The old man was the first one to speak up. He brushed his long beard while praising Rein for his composer and then he introduced himself. He turned out to be a True God realm powerhouse who had fallen in the war many many years ago. His name was Huanlong and he was famously known as Mountain Suppressing Saint in his times.

Rein did not recognise this name but Lu Shi. Even though both of them read a lot of books, most of the books Rein studied were about cultivation and very technical in nature. He very rarely read through history books. But Lu Shi was a big fan of knowing about many ancient secrets and so she read many books of historical nature.

And in one such book she had come across the name of Mountain Suppressing Saint.

Lu Shi immediately told Rein about it and Huanlong was also interested in knowing what the future generation had written about her. According to what Lu Shi had read, Huanlong was a saint who was alive about five hundred thousand years ago. He got his name after he suppressed a mountain demon with just one palm and turned it back into a real mountain.

He was known to be helpful to common people and had a very good reputation.

The incident of his death was very mysterious and no one was sure what had actually happened. There was obviously a big war hundreds of thousands of years ago where quite a few True Gods fell. As Huanlong disappeared after this war, it was speculated that he was also killed by one of his enemies.

There were also some rumours about other kinds of history and him being alive but not many clues were found about it so no one was sure about his condition.

After telling this far Lu Shi looked at Huanlong with curiosity. She wanted to know what actually happened that time and to learn about the truth of that incident. Seeing this interest, Huanlong started to tell Lu Shi and Rein about what happened hundreds of thousands of years ago.

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A long time ago when Huanlong was still in his prime, a massive war started between three of the strongest sects of that time. At that time there was no royal dynasty ruling over everything and the sects had the highest authority in the land. Among the many sects three were at the very top. They were the Golden Peak Sect, Dimensional God temple and Lingting Mountain Palace.

All those sects had more than one True God realm powerhouses.

The war actually only started between Golden Peak Sect and the Lingting Mountain Palace concerning a valuable natural treasure and Dimensional God Temple had no interest in this. But soon this little conflict suddenly became big because of various coincidences and soon one of the disciples of the Dimensional God temple was killed unfairly in the crossfire.

Then it turned out that the person who was killed was the grandson of a true god from the Dimensional God Temple and that person attacked both of the other sects in a frenzy.

Dimensional God temple was the most mysterious sect among the top sects and it was very rare for one of their powerhouses to make a move. So the other two sects wanted to take this chance to hurt the Dimensional God temple badly and joined together to attack the True God who came out of the stronghold of the main Temple.

Seven True Gods attacked that person and was successful in killing him. Then the very next day all the temples of the Dimensional God temple disappeared into thin air. This was something weird as the other two sects had not done anything. Then suddenly 10 True Gods appeared out of nowhere and attacked both the Golden Peak Sect and Lingting Mountain Palace.

The True Gods were taken aback by this sudden attack and the large number of powerhouses and were unable to properly fight back. So very quickly one true god from both sects died and the others were badly injured.

The Dimensional God temple did not take this chance to wipe out those two sects but instead they again disappeared after killing one true god from both of the sects. The Dimensional God temple remained a mystery to this day.

But the major thing happened after this. The sects who only had one true god find this to be a perfect chance to gain a huge advantage and they created an alliance to attack the weakened top sects. Huanlong was also invited to join the alliance but he rejected that as he was a cautious person by nature and this whole incident was very abnormal.

But even though he tried to keep out of the trouble, he was unable to do so. He had very few friends and one such friend was suddenly attacked by the alliance. So to help his friend Huanlong fought and was badly injured by the sneak attack of two true gods. It turned out that this whole incident was a plot to lure Huanlong out.

Using a secret technique Huanlong was able to somehow run away but he was at the end of his line. So he died soon afterwards. But before that he was able to create this trial ground for the future generation and was also able to leave a part of his soul behind who was taking care of this place.

Currently the Royal family that was ruling over this whole world was actually the previous Golden Peak Sect who was able to become the supreme winner of that conflict. But they were unable to become too domineering because they still had the secretive Dimensional God temple to be fearful about. And that was how the current delicate situation appeared.

After learning all this Lu Shi was very excited. Rein on the other hand was very calm as he did not care much about the history of this world. So he asked the other question he had in mind. That was about how Huanlong was planning to find a successor.

Hearing this question Huanlong said that he was going to judge by himself who among the people able to reach this place was worthy of being his successor. Rein also asked him why the first few stages needed cooperation but the last few did not. The answer to that was very simple.

Huanlong made the first few stages to reward groups who had good relationships and the last few floors were actually there to find his successor. That was the reason why this place was designed in this manner.

While this conversation was going on, the other people were also about to reach the final stage.