From Fairy Xi, Wang Yu learned the whole story.
It was not especially complicated; it mainly concerned events from the last few centuries, and it was also related to what Qing Xu Heavenly Venerate wanted to entrust him with, so she simply explained it all together.
The matter had to be traced back to a thousand years ago.
Around twelve hundred years ago, when cultivators of the Heavenly Human Clan were tempering themselves in the Immortal Domain of the "Ghost Spirit Race," they unexpectedly found themselves near an [Eye of Chaos] somewhere in the Cosmic Sea.
There, they discovered a Great World that had drifted over from some unknown place. Its sheer scale was already comparable to the volume of a Great Thousand World, but it had no subsidiary worlds at all; instead, it was a single-type great realm.
This meant that it could accommodate cultivators of any realm below the True Immortal Realm, including Tribulation Crossing Cultivators. Because of its special nature, it was also called—the [Soul Refining Great World]!
All in all.
Its world rules were unique, and its Heavenly Dao laws were vastly different from the outside world. It did not permit the existence of physical bodies. If outsiders wanted to enter, they could only do so as Soul Bodies.
As it happened, the Ghost Spirit Race was born with "Yin Spirit Ghost Bodies" and had no physical bodies. This Soul Refining Great World had a very deep connection to the origins of their race, yet it had been discovered by the Heavenly Human Clan.
This concerned an entire great realm, and the interests involved touched every side. The Heavenly Human Clan could not possibly give it up, so they secretly formulated the "Great Displacement Plan," intending to move the entire Soul Refining Great World into the