"Do you know these things, meaning you’ve investigated everything clearly?" Helian Zheng inquired.
"I heard it from Chang Furong and them, Unrestrained is leaderless and almost got wiped out. They wanted me to be the leader, but I didn’t accept it," Xiang Beifei said.
"Chang Furong? So that’s how it is."
Helian Zheng naturally knew Chang Furong, someone who awakened the [SSR-level Evil-accumulating System], lived over eighty years, and because he didn’t want to follow the system tasks, he only had the strength of the Meridian Opening stage.
Chang Furong is a particularly special person in Unrestrained. Even though his strength isn’t high, everyone respects him.
Since it was Chang Furong who said it, the situation is probably about eighty to ninety percent accurate.
"You and he both aren’t willing to become our leader."
Helian Zheng seemed somewhat disappointed.
"If you truly want to achieve real Unrestrained and break free from the system’s shackles, then you should understand one thing: the answer to Unrestrained cannot be found in Jiuzhou," Xiang Beifei said.
"He said the same thing to us back then," Helian Zheng said with a bitter smile.
"Is that why you two left Jiuzhou? Because you listened to him and decided to take a chance in the depths of the wilderness?" Xiang Beifei said in surprise.
"Yes, but also no. This matter must start with the mysterious disappearance of our leader."
Helian Zheng paused, recalling their former Unrestrained leader, looking very bitter.
"Our Unrestrained leader, who is Jialuoluo, at that time, the alliance released a statement telling everyone Jialuoluo fought against the artificial intelligence ’God’ developed by the alliance to prove himself and ultimately suffered a crushing defeat by ’God.’
But in reality, anyone who understood the situation knew that ’God’ could never overpower our leader. Our leader wasn’t someone who awakened a so-called hacker system; he was an exceptionally gifted martial artist!"
Talking about their former leader’s strength, Helian Zheng also looked very solemn.
"His strength was mighty, with half a foot into the Immortal Realm, and only one martial artist in Jiuzhou could threaten him!"
Helian Zheng paused here and then looked at Xiang Beifei, solemnly saying, "That would be Luo Yunxian!"
"Luo Yunxian should be the most powerful martial artist I’ve ever seen, without exception. It’s fortunate for Jiuzhou to have him! But Luo Yunxian is a principled martial artist who doesn’t take action casually, and his personality also seems out of place in the Jiuzhou Alliance, just like our leader."
Helian Zheng held Luo Yunxian in high regard, with a look of admiration in his eyes: "Even our leader once said Luo Yunxian was the only person in the entire Jiuzhou that he couldn’t defeat, so you can roughly understand what kind of martial artist our leader was."
"So that’s how it is."
Xiang Beifei nodded thoughtfully.
Helian Zheng asked, "You should know Luo Yunxian, right? I don’t even know which university you graduated from."
"Elder Luo is my master," Xiang Beifei said.
Helian Zheng was incredibly shocked!
It took him a while to recover, then he said, "No wonder! I should have thought of it earlier; both you and your father were trained by him. No wonder your strength is so formidable, everything makes sense now."
"However, Jialuoluo and Luo Yunxian have different ideologies. Luo Yunxian takes protecting the safety of Jiuzhou as his responsibility, and as long as Jiuzhou’s people’s safety is ensured, he does not care much about other matters.
While our leader does not like the survival mode of Jiuzhou’s people, he seeks to find a way to break free from the system and give freedom to those shackled by it, which is also the goal and hope for all of Unrestrained.
Over twenty years ago, our leader discovered something very strange. He felt a very powerful force seemed to be controlling these systems, he said that force was lurking somewhere in the Jiuzhou Alliance, he had been pursuing this force all along."
Xiang Beifei frowned, "A force that controls the system?"
He exchanged a glance with Xiaohei, who also seemed puzzled.
The only ones capable of controlling the system were him and Xiaohei.
But over twenty years ago, Xiang Beifei hadn’t been born yet!
So what did it mean for someone to be able to control the system?
Xiang Beifei found it strange.
Jiuzhou was the homeland his grandfather led humans to find, and the people in Hanxia did not have a system, but Jiuzhou’s people did. That is to say, Grandpa used some method to turn the Dao embryo into a form of a system.
But if it was indeed Grandpa who managed to do this, then why did Grandpa lose his memory?
"What specifically is the force you mentioned?"
Xiang Beifei needed more information.
Helian Zheng said, "I can’t say for sure, even our leader couldn’t determine it. But our leader said he discovered the origin of Jiuzhou and found the great ancestor who established Jiuzhou."
Xiang Beifei was slightly surprised!
Jialuoluo found his grandfather?
"The leader didn’t tell me who this ancestor was, but he said that the ancestor encountered trouble, lost all his memory, and Jiuzhou was invaded by that force, possibly related to that force. That force is very terrifying and can pose a great threat to humanity; he had been searching for the source of that force."
Helian Zheng spoke cautiously about this matter too.
Xiang Beifei frowned and said, "With something this important, shouldn’t he have told Elder Luo? If he understood Elder Luo’s character, he should have known that Elder Luo wouldn’t stand by idly."