Beyond the doors of the Scripture Pavilion, a wooden table had rotted away, and atop a reclining chair lay a stark white skeleton.
Even after several thousand years, and even within this sickly, distorted world, these remains had retained their basic integrity.
Such strength meant that, in life, this person had possessed cultivation above the third tier and had undoubtedly been a Body Cultivator who specialized in tempering the flesh.
Otherwise, the corpse could not possibly have endured for so long in this twisted age.
Moreover, the fact that the remains had survived also proved that, before his death, this person had deliberately extinguished his own mind, cutting off any possibility of mutation.
In a world as twisted as this, a body with such formidable physique would inevitably have undergone a mutation after death, becoming some Corpse Demon-like evil entity.
Chu Mu merely glanced at the skeleton before his gaze settled once more on the few scrolls before him.
His many earlier conjectures had clearly been confirmed by these scrolls.
The mutation of this world had not been like that of the Cultivation World, creeping in subtly and accumulating day by day.
Instead, it had been an exceedingly abrupt distortion of the world's rules. In only a few short years, all living beings in the world had likely perished along with it.
But the problem was that the Cultivation World's mutation had occurred because the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast had been suppressed by the Cultivation World and now sought to break free. That was why the Demon Clan had appeared, and why the world had begun to mutate.
But what about this world?
The world's mutation and the distortion of its rules had been completed almost in an instant.
In merely a few years, all life within the realm had