The Wang Family's founding ancestor? The Wang Family's patriarch from the Mythological Era? Meng Qi's pupils contracted slightly, and an inexplicable shudder ran through him.
Though the Wang Family had deliberately kept things under wraps, and matters of antiquity often involved secrets erased from the long river of history or sealed away by powerful figures, leaving his legend vague and incomplete, the most basic facts were still known to everyone.
He had obtained the Luo Shu, comprehended the fundamental truths of the Heavenly Dao, and created the Calculation Scripture, a work comparable to the Emperor-Suppressing Eight Trigrams. He had exhausted every mystery of the heavens and established a foundation that would endure for ten thousand ages. He was at least a Legendary Great Power—perhaps even stronger!
Yet such a Great Divine Ability User had let out such a heartrending, terrified scream before his death, one that echoed through the ages and could not be wholly erased?
What had he encountered before passing away? What had he seen?
More terrifying still, this had not been an isolated incident. Every Wang Family ancestor who had attained the Dharmakaya let out a similar scream before passing away. Could the Calculation Scripture have been too overbearing, with the backlash of the Heavenly Dao turning into a curse that had seeped into the technique? Would anyone who practiced it either die young before fifty or meet a terrible end?
For some reason, the words "meet a terrible end" kept circling through Meng Qi's mind, crimson and hideous.
Doubt, shock, and other emotions bubbled up inside him like rising water bubbles. He wanted to press for answers, but this concerned the Wang Clan's secrets, and the place was the Wang Clan Ancestral Hall. There was no way they would let an outsider like him investigate. So