Seeing Chen Cheng stand there for so long, Ye Rong sensed that something about him had changed. But with Kui Niu's death weighing on them, he did not ask.
When he saw Chen Cheng looking at the mountain of bones, he stepped forward and said:
"Your Majesty, have you noticed something?"
Chen Cheng withdrew his Divine Eye, then looked at Ye Rong.
"So you do know something, General Ye Rong."
Hearing this, Ye Rong knew Chen Cheng had seen through it. He cupped his fists.
"Please forgive me, Your Majesty. After the Great Wall was moved here, it became water cut off from its source. Every use drained its power, and it could never have lasted this long.
By the time of His Majesty the Fifth, the Great Wall had lost much of its power, and the filth it suppressed had begun to surface. Prince Pingbei discovered that the bones piled up beyond the Great Wall had formed the beginnings of a Demon Realm.
We had only heard of Demon Realms in legend. There was no known way to deal with one.
The Abyss was also in a period of eruption, and the Great Wall was showing signs of breaking.
In the end, the master of the Demigod Temple brought something His Majesty the First had left behind, channeled the foul demonic energy here into the Great Wall, and made it a source of power for it."
Ye Rong sighed again.
"But this is a place steeped in demonic energy. To avoid causing panic, word of it was never passed down. I learned of it only because I read ancient texts about the Northern Frontier at the Demigod Temple before I was sent to guard the border."
Ye Rong's information was of limited use, but it confirmed for Chen Cheng