With Yang Qingyun's eyesight, he could naturally see the true identities of the figures beneath those mysterious black robes.
Although they had human forms,
in reality, they were no longer human.
There was no blood left in their bodies.
Their entire bodies showed not the slightest trace of vitality.
They had completely transformed into aberrant beings akin to anomalies!
Recalling the information about this world that he had learned from Daoist Fushou,
Yang Qingyun understood.
Two years ago, because of Wang Zhongguan, Daoist Fushou had come out of seclusion to lend his aid.
Although the other party had clearly harbored ulterior motives during that journey, Yang Qingyun was not so unreasonable as to let him become an experimental guinea pig like Blood Butcher.
Thus, at least, they could still receive a certain level of guest treatment.
During their later exchanges,
Daoist Fushou had told him about some of the secrets surrounding anomalies in this world.
For example, in the anomalous world, any major force with a lineage spanning several hundred years would basically have one or two ancestors who had entered slumber and sealed themselves away.
Those ancestors were all in a state of self-sealing, thereby obtaining an extended "lifespan" for their existence.
The reason they had to seal themselves away was supposedly that those beings had already completely transformed their bodies into aberrant forms.
During that process, it seemed that some terrifying "tribulation" would arise.
To evade that "tribulation," they had no choice but to pay a tremendous price to build "coffin tombs," seal themselves away, and even lock away their consciousnesses in slumber, making it impossible for them to venture out again.
Those beings
had thus become the trump cards of the top major powers standing at the pinnacle of the anomalous world.
They were also the foundation