Grave Beast Transformation, Jade Cauldron Celestial Venerable

Han Yi stood within the chaos. Though his frame was not particularly imposing, he was like an eternal boulder, standing firm and unmoving.

At his side, neither the deteriorating power of chaos nor the pervasive aura of death and extinction within the Burial Calamity Dao Domain could affect him in the slightest.

His gaze fell upon the chaos, hazy and unfathomable, yet the disappointment within it could not be concealed.

"There's nothing. Absolutely nothing."

"This... shouldn't be."

Over a hundred years, Han Yi's search range had expanded from Yellow Wind Valley to the Shattered Domain Territory, then continued outward until it eventually encompassed the entire Burial Calamity Dao Domain.

Other than three places that even he found too dangerous to enter, he had searched everywhere else.

Yet apart from the aura within Yellow Wind Valley and the bloodstained fragments of ancient artifacts in the Shattered Domain Territory, he had gained nothing else of relevance.

That was why he was thoroughly disappointed.

However, through this process, he had also confirmed his suspicions.

Dongfang He's death had definitely not been caused by the peculiar dangers of the Burial Calamity Dao Domain itself. There had been human interference.

If he had fallen due to the Burial Calamity Dao Domain itself, or because of changes involving Dao Tombs, Grave Beasts, and the like, traces would certainly have remained—and they would have been quite obvious. They could not have been wiped so cleanly as they were now.

The one who had acted was at least a peak Celestial Venerable. Han Yi even suspected that it might have been a World Venerable half a step beyond transcendence.

Furthermore.

Over these hundred years, Han Yi had encountered only ten mature-stage Grave Beasts in the Burial Calamity Dao Domain, and all ten had only just entered the mature