"I once told you that early Zero Realm was an exceptionally resource-rich third-party world system derived to sustain Higher ghostly creatures. In essence, it was also a restrictive prison for them. Once a soul was eroded by the aura of the Zero Realm, humanity's original potential would gradually be sealed away."
"Those top-tier ghostly creatures, who had thought they had finally found a place to hide, lived comfortably in the Zero Realm for a while before discovering that their abilities were becoming increasingly difficult to improve. They eventually found that the cause was the erosion of their soul cores—the 'Resentment Crystals'—by the aura of the Zero Realm. That was also when the term 'nightmare' was first proposed."
"Yet this erosion did not make some short-sighted or weak ghostly creatures feel uncomfortable. Even knowing all this, they still lived leisurely in the Zero Realm, an environment without prison envoys. Those with vision and ambition, the strong who had recognized early on why the Zero Realm had come into being, began seeking ways to break through from the moment their bodies were contaminated. Because they were exceptionally powerful and the Zero Realm was rich in resources, some of them broke through their bottlenecks."
"That group was the death spirits we are facing now."
As Yu Ming reached this point, Zhang Chen interrupted him with some confusion. "Wait a moment. If people like Great Emperor Dongji had noticed the problem with the Zero Realm in advance, why didn't they use their own abilities to resist the erosion of its aura and become like the ghostly creatures in the Ghost Realm?"
"Haha, I knew you would ask that. According to the records, there was not a single ghostly creature in the early Zero Realm. At first, I had the same doubts. After all, judging