After the Sword Clan occupied the Ruo Wood, they had no idea that the skeleton was there.
If the Sword Clan had to slowly investigate and eventually find the skeleton at the bottom of the Ruo Wood, it would probably take an even longer span of time...
Perhaps ten Divine Eras, perhaps ten thousand Divine Eras, or perhaps they would never discover it.
Although True Gods and even Saints had escaped the shackles of time and become eternal lifeforms,
if the God Domain fell, even the most eternal things would probably vanish in an instant...
A giant worm that suddenly emerged from the Ruo Wood, rampaged for no apparent reason, and was then slain by the Saints—no matter how one looked at it, the whole affair was exceedingly baffling.
Based on the Sanskrit deciphered by Luo Xiao and Nightingale Saint, they soon arrived at an answer.
That giant worm had originally been deliberately created by the skeleton. Its purpose was to make the Sword Clan living on the Ruo Wood discover its existence.
After figuring out the skeleton's intentions, they also understood that the heir the skeleton sought could only be a True God.
Moreover, such a True God had to possess extraordinary comprehension of the True Meaning of the Dao...
However, not many races in the God Domain understood the True Meaning of the Dao.
After much deliberation, the Sword Clan began the "Dao Strife."
They had no way to test a True God's comprehension of the True Meaning of the Dao...
They could only use the True Meaning Spirit Sword to test the True Gods' sensitivity. These tests were, in truth, measures born of helplessness.
"It's a pity. The Sword Clan truly wasted far too much, far too much time..." Yu Taibai spoke with a faint note of