The ancestor of the Mountain Ghosts?
That answer was far beyond anything Jiang Qiao had imagined.
As he listened to the old man's description, images of a cultivation world first surfaced in his mind, followed by scenes of interstellar exploration.
The so-called Star Realm should be the galaxy, while the so-called Dead Silent Star Sea was somewhat like the Asteroid Belt on the galaxy's outskirts. As for the enormous cloud cluster, there was no doubt it was the cloud surrounding the entire galaxy in the Edge of the galaxy.
From beginning to end, he had listened as though it were merely a joke, half believing it and half doubting it. He had never taken it entirely seriously.
But who would have thought?
In the end, it had somehow turned into the ancestor of the Mountain Ghosts?
Did the Mountain Ghosts have an ancestor?
As everyone knew, the so-called Mountain Ghosts were one of the culprits behind the Great Cataclysm of the Supernatural World. They marked the beginning of a Normal World's descent into the supernatural.
Thus, for a long time, the experts of the Supernatural World had been searching for the secrets of the Mountain Ghosts, wanting to know where they had come from.
Where, exactly, did those bottomless hollows lead?
But.
The old man before him seemed to be telling him that the Mountain Ghosts were not the source of the supernatural. They were merely the result of it.
Before the Mountain Ghosts, there were even more ancient secrets!
After a long while.
Jiang Qiao calmed his emotions and looked at the old man, who had stopped speaking. In a cold voice, he said:
"You and I have never met."
"Why are you telling me all this?"
Setting aside the old man's identity and whether this story was true,