Could that strange tribulation that had erupted within the chaos have been the "Dao Defining Tribulation" the snow-white spider spoke of?
If so, one could infer that the owner of that War Blade had once been defeated in the Dao Defining Tribulation.
That person had most likely perished. Even the War Blade had been ground to pieces by the great tribulation, leaving behind only a fragment lost to the world.
And because this War Blade fragment bore a trace of that person's bloodstain, it had also retained a wisp of that person's consciousness!
Perhaps the snow-white spider had accidentally swallowed the War Blade fragment, and thus came to possess a wisp of that person's consciousness.
Or perhaps the consciousness within the War Blade fragment had been unwilling to die, giving rise to an obsession that, through transformations over boundless years, had taken over the snow-white spider as its vessel.
In short, the owner of the War Blade fragment was indeed dead.
Even the consciousness he had left behind was most likely nothing more than a wisp of obsession!
And because of Su Yi's appearance, the other party had mistaken him for a fellow cultivator who had survived the "Dao Defining Tribulation," which was why that scene had occurred earlier.
At this thought, Su Yi could not help but sigh inwardly.
Since the War Blade's owner had attained the Dao at the beginning of the Chaos Epoch, he must have been an extraordinary existence.
Merely a fragment of the War Blade he had left behind could keep a wisp of obsession from dispersing through the ages. One could well imagine how formidable he had been in life.
"The secrets hidden within this Origin Realm must all be connected to the earliest era of the Chaos Epoch. If I can unravel this