Primordial Violet Qi had become the "Source of Chaos."
Li Yu had long known that the Hong Huang world within this Pearl of Origin was far from simple. Now, hearing the system prompt, he was even more certain of it.
"Can the system recycle Primordial Violet Qi? Then... recycle it!"
At his command, the Primordial Violet Qi stored within the Soul Scattering Gourd Shard was instantly absorbed completely by the system.
"Plane location marker detected."
A plane location marker? Something like the marker used for traversing the myriad outer worlds?
Li Yu froze for a moment, then quickly came to a guess.
"Saints are not human, Saints are dead. Heh, and now there's a plane location marker. Clearly, someone had 'descended' upon all these Saints."
The "Peerless Great Omen" Red Cloud had spoken of was this plane location marker.
According to Li Yu's deduction, the Saints had fused with Primordial Violet Qi to attain sainthood, and then... someone had followed the "plane location marker" to "descend" into this world and seize the Saints' bodies.
So-called sainthood was merely allowing some existence to "descend."
No wonder Saints were said not to be human. No wonder Saints were said to be dead. No wonder Red Cloud had died.
"I remember that Tai Xuan Heavenly Emperor once said he was the ruler of the Outer Realm. If there is an Outer Realm, then there must also be rulers of middle realms, inner realms, and other such realms."
Li Yu was almost certain that the Saints of the Hong Huang world were people like Tai Xuan Heavenly Emperor, who had "descended" into this world and become Saints.
"Eight Saints—could there be eight existences similar to Tai Xuan Heavenly Emperor? Including Red Cloud, the intended target, there should actually have been nine Heavenly Emperors. Why...