"There's a stone stele here?"
After leaving the temple, they spotted another stone stele by the rear gate. The writing upon it recorded certain events. Only then did they realize they had entered through the back door; this side was the true main entrance.
"To seek the Primordial Origin, I severed my demonic thoughts and created the Demon Womb Severance Mantra. Yet I never imagined the demon womb would not die and would eventually bring calamity. I had no choice but to use the relics of many eminent monks to suppress it here forever. Those who come to this tower in later generations must not touch it."
Who knew how many years had passed, yet the writing remained clear, suffused with a faint golden glow, as though it had been carved by a finger. Mere writing possessed such spirituality that this stone stele could practically be used as a magic artifact. The cultivation of the one who had inscribed it was plainly terrifying beyond measure.
"These aren't characters from the upper realm." Azure Dragon Venerable was the first to speak. "The one who suppressed the demon womb here was a great human cultivator."
Quite a few objects in the Divine Ruins bore inscriptions, all of them obscure and incomprehensible Heavenly Dao script. Since this had been written in human characters, it naturally had not fallen from the heavens.
"Primordial Origin..." Daoist Yan murmured.
The Great Dao of Chaos wielded by the Old Ancestor of Crow Nest in the South Sea was darkness taken to its utmost extreme, immensely powerful. Its counterpart was the Primordial Origin, light taken to its utmost extreme.
"Even a severed demon womb possessed such powerful cultivation. Just what level had this great cultivator reached back then?" Caiyi's eyes shimmered. "Could he have been a ninth-realm divine