Chu Qing was stunned.
"Days?"
"Yes!"
"But I stepped into the darkness and traveled across so many continents. No matter how fast I was, it was impossible for me to set foot on tens of thousands of continents in just a few days!"
Chu Qing frowned in thought.
Suddenly, something stirred in Chu Qing's heart. He remembered how, after leaving the last Emperor, one of his feet had stepped into darkness while the other remained in the light.
He also recalled the last Emperor saying that everything he had experienced was history.
All the continents, all the people, had actually died.
What he had seen and experienced had all been the obsessions of the beings from that world.
Those living beings had actually died long, long ago.
Only because of their despair and unwillingness to accept it had those obsessions formed gathering points one after another.
Those ruined exotic treasures had actually perished long ago.
Li Xue and the others had rotted away so completely that not even bone fragments remained.
Chu Qing carefully recalled everything. Then he suddenly realized:
He had traveled across so many continents and seen so many settlements.
Yet in all those settlements, he had never seen a single infant or child.
Everyone in every settlement had been an adult, all Realm-level experts, even Realm Ancestor-level powerhouses.
At some point back then, the light of the exotic treasures had gone out completely, and these people had died completely!
The stronger among them had developed obsessions, becoming things akin to ghosts, souls, Yin Gods, and the like.
Their memories had all stopped at a certain moment before their deaths.
As for the weak, and children and the like, they had been too weak to form obsessions.
*It was even possible that, during some period before their extinction,