"Did this turn out to be the truth behind everything back then?"
"So this was the secret history of Divine Relic Ridge, involving the war between the Heaven Swallowing Race and the Giant God Race, the bloody battle between the Crimson Immortal Sect and the Blood Demons, and everything that happened afterward..."
After hearing Qing He's words, Lin Bai wore an expression of sudden enlightenment.
The general course of events was that Qing He had been betrayed by a friend, and the Giant God Race had learned of his whereabouts and identity. At the time, the Giant God Race had sent a Giant God who had engraved the Burial God Curse to hunt Qing He down.
Qing He fought him to the death and accidentally shattered a spatial rift. He and the Giant God were both swept into the spatial turbulence. Qing He then slew the Giant God, but because his injuries were too severe, he died soon afterward as well!
Later, the Burial God Curse within the Giant God's body activated, and the Blood Demons were born. They began slaughtering martial artists throughout the Myriad Kingdoms Domain. Unable to bear it, Qing He—who felt that the disaster had begun because of him—used a secret technique to preserve a fragment of his remnant soul and reached an agreement with the second-rate sect Crimson Immortal Sect.
Later, the Crimson Immortal Sect went back on its word. Qing He activated a formation, causing the Crimson Immortal Sect to vanish from the Barren Ancient Continent overnight!
And the root cause of everything was the war between the Heaven Swallowing Race and the Giant God Race.
"I never thought the war between the Heaven Swallowing Race and the Giant God Race would have spread all the way to the Barren Ancient Continent." Lin Bai's