"What was the Corpse Demon?"
Ask whenever you don't understand.
"The appearance of Bone Canyon was related to the Corpse Demon," Wang Kui said slowly. "It's perfectly normal that you young people don't know about him, because he was a figure from the Nether Era."
"The Nether Era? That was an extraordinary age."
Jiang Qiao played along.
"Indeed."
"That era produced heroes in droves. Geniuses of unparalleled brilliance were as plentiful as carp crossing a river, inspiring endless admiration," Wang Kui said with a sigh.
"No one knows the Corpse Demon's true name."
"Very few people had ever seen what he looked like, and even his gender was a mystery."
"But he was one of the most troublesome and terrifying figures of that era. When he reached the Ninth Rank, he had already half-merged with a law, with one foot over the threshold of the Half-God realm."
"The law he controlled was known as the Law of Withering."
"It could wither all humans, evil entities, and even supernatural tales, reducing them to bleached bones."
"Such a law also exists in later ages."
"But in that era, he was considered its originator—the earliest recorded Evolver to control this kind of law."
"Yes."
"He wasn't an Awakened. He was an Evolver."
"That was why he was so bloodthirsty."
"He was violent and ruthless by nature. If anyone offended him, he would turn that person's entire family, from the oldest to the youngest, along with everything within hundreds of miles, into heaps of bones."
"He had slaughtered too many people. Eventually, he killed someone he shouldn't have and brought disaster upon himself."
"He killed the wrong person."
"He crossed the Green Lotus Sect."
"This valley was his dwelling place in those days, as well as his final burial ground. When he died, his