Starting from Shrouding the Heavens, Stealing Heavenly Secrets-Section 811

A solemn, murderous aura filled the heavens and earth.

It was as if countless living beings had once treated this place as a battlefield, only for too many mighty figures to perish and countless cultivators to be buried here.

Yet the murderous aura, the terrifying might, and the battlefield steeped in the sediment of countless ages were all merely the surface.

There were places ordinary cultivators could not see.

The origin of Primordial Imperial City was connected to a Law Abyss, which was constantly drawing out the city's essential origin.

"Primordial Imperial City's spiritual essence has been exhausted. Its collapse is not far off. The arrangements left behind by the kings of Immortal Ancient truly leave no hope."

Walking across this battlefield that had been tempered by the flames of war and sensing those ancient, mottled traces, it was as if the years of endless warfare had resurfaced before his eyes.

"The aspirations of all beings of the heavens, the helplessness of changing eras, the scroll of blood and bone, the years of ceaseless war—when will it ever end?"

Feeling the sorrow accumulated between heaven and earth, Li Zhi was overwhelmed with emotion.

Everyone fought for supremacy, lived or died, and slaughtered without end. What was it all for?

For immortality, to break through the king realm and become an emperor, or to roam freely along the Immortal Dao?

Where were the enfeoffed kings who had once received the blessings of all the races?

Could the descendants of those enfeoffed kings still uphold their glory?

Was all of this meant to protect all beings, or was it merely for a shred of personal desire?

Why was a perfect world always filled with chapters written in blood and bone?

Could endless, repeated slaughter truly unravel the fate of reincarnation?

It seemed