Decades later, within the ancestral grounds, an utterly barren stretch of land lay beneath endless dark clouds that blotted out the heavens, vast and mighty, completely shrouding everything.
Countless bolts of lightning cascaded down, turning the place into an ocean of thunder and lightning.
The nearby tribes and demonic beasts all knew that this place seemed to have become a forbidden zone. Ever since it had suddenly turned into this state decades ago, the lightning here had never ceased.
The sounds of battle and slaughter could often be heard from within as well, as though thousands upon thousands of troops were galloping through it. It seemed like an Ancient Battlefield.
What had happened decades ago was neither long ago nor recent. Aside from those who had always lived here, no one else remembered what this place had looked like back then.
The new generation that had grown up in the tribes no longer knew what this place had been decades ago. There were also rumors that it had always been an Ancient Battlefield, where powerful experts had fought a decisive battle. Others said that two tribes had slaughtered one another here until blood flowed like a river, and that decades ago, this Ancient Battlefield had undergone a mutation and produced something unclean.
That was why it had provoked the fury of the heavens, which began sending down lightning to eradicate the unclean thing within. Moreover, the lightning was incredibly dangerous. Some tribal elders had even seen humanoid and beast-shaped lightning moving within. Such terrifying lightning, unseen through the ages, completely extinguished everyone's desire to investigate.
Fortunately, the thunder and lightning remained confined to that barren land and had not spread outward in decades, allowing many worried tribal elders to breathe easy.
Recently, however, the lightning showed signs of growing ever