Recently, Ian had encountered far too many shocking truths.
Star Gods, Terminus, Echoes... the secrets of the Immovable Fortress, the paths of prophets and the future... how to defeat those nearly despair-inducing enemies from beyond the world...
By now, even Ian found it difficult to identify what truly mattered most.
He had gained much, but he had also acquired countless new questions. All he could do was return to his own territory, continue developing the Arcane Path, and diligently tend his fields.
At the very least, when it came to development, he could not fall behind the Star-Extinguishing Path and the Spirit Calamity Path.
The Spirit Calamity Path had spent roughly thirty or forty years completely transforming the cultivation system of the entire Terra Continent.
This was no exaggeration. On Earth, in an era where technological reserves had fully matured, it took less than ten years for handheld terminals to almost entirely replace laptops and desktop computers, while human culture and forms of entertainment underwent drastic upheaval.
And on Terra, among the Ascenders—a class defined by brutally intense competition—once they obtained the relevant technology, they would certainly update and replace it at the fastest possible pace.
However, several issues remained with the Spirit Calamity Path.
First: what mindset had led the Empire to permit the Spirit-Veneration Church's initial development? Was it because of the Prophet? Beyond that, what hidden demands had there been?
Second: the Spirit Calamity Path had not seen the 'Light Calamity.'
The Dark Gold Dragon could not destroy the outermost spacetime membrane of the Star-Prison. The Light Calamity had not been caused by Echoes... so who had triggered the Light Calamity? Why had the Spirit Calamity Path been able to stop it?
These questions had not been taken seriously before, but in light of the information brought