"I've spent a full seven million years here in Desolate Ridge. Ordinarily, the only one I have to talk to is the Lord of Desolate Ridge."
Bai Chen shook his head.
"As for everything that's happened outside, you could say I know nothing at all."
"Kunwu Continent lacks spiritual energy. When Immortal Cultivators who cultivate using spirit stones die, their spiritual energy cannot return to heaven and earth; it can only dissipate. So as Kunwu Continent's spirit stone veins are depleted, its cultivation world is, in fact, marching step by step toward extinction."
Chen Yan continued his account.
"And then?"
Bai Chen prompted.
"A Void Return Realm cultivator on Kunwu Continent wanted to change all that."
Chen Yan said,
"He struck a bargain and shattered Kunwu Continent's Heaven and Earth Laws, causing the Mysterious Woman Statue wandering within the Space-time Fault to descend upon Kunwu Continent... But that statue had already been completely controlled by the pitch-black chains within the Space-time Fault. From each of the Mysterious Woman's ten fingers hung the corpse of a Sage. I recognized one of them. It was Tianji Saint's corpse."
Bai Chen offered no comment on this. Instead, he asked,
"So how did that Void Return Realm cultivator shatter Kunwu Continent's Heaven and Earth Laws?"
Chen Yan hesitated briefly at the question, his gaze drifting aside for an instant.
"I cut them apart."
"So even you have a day like this."
Bai Chen laughed at his answer.
"I never imagined that man would be so insane."
Chen Yan said.
"So who did that Void Return Realm cultivator from Kunwu Continent strike a bargain with, and what was the bargain?"
"I don't know."
Chen Yan shook his head.
"I don't know exactly what the entity he bargained with was, but I do know the terms