Zhao Tongxuan watched Li Qingyuan's expression change again and again and said, "You needn't worry too much."
"When I first learned this news, my expression was the same as yours now."
Li Qingyuan looked at Zhao Tongxuan and waited for him to continue.
Zhao Tongxuan said, "Though no one knows why those Core Formation Prodigies who remained behind all vanished so mysteriously, later trial-takers searched the entire relic continent and found neither traces of battles left by Core Formation Cultivators nor any corpses."
"Furthermore, from the discovery of this continental relic to its opening once every fifty years, it has remained so for more than two thousand years. During the Foundation Establishment Trial, there has never been a large-scale occurrence of cultivators dying mysteriously."
No large-scale occurrence meant there had been small-scale ones.
Li Qingyuan fell into thought.
Even if a few people died mysteriously and vanished without a trace, everyone would only fix their eyes on the relic's resources and high-level inheritances, sending Foundation Establishment geniuses in every fifty years to fight over secret treasures again.
When a few cultivators died strangely or disappeared mysteriously, they had no time to care about other things. Everyone was fighting for resources; if you did not fight, you would fall behind.
And once you fell behind and became weak, destruction awaited.
Human greed had always been like this. Even the wise would be swept along by the tide of the times, powerless to resist.
Li Qingyuan secretly thought, It seems I must be even more cautious in what comes next. Before leaving, I should avoid using my killing moves and trump cards whenever possible.
I feel deeply uneasy. I must prepare for a rainy day and preserve my strongest firepower.
Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
At that moment, waves of Core Formation pressure