Epoch of Light
Chapter 1999

The Primordial Scroll and a Visit

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The divine war would continue. In three days, they would gather the full strength of all gods from the major divine clans, attack the Undead Continent, and wipe out the Undead pantheon!

After much deliberation in the Divine Domain, that was the final outcome. Lin Qi neither approved nor disapproved of this somewhat muddled conclusion, while Mu Wei only reluctantly accepted the final decision made by the gods. All she needed, in any case, was someone to vent her fury on. As for who had truly assassinated Mudel, Mu Wei naturally had her own thoughts!

Once the assembly of gods had adjourned, Lin Qi went to the most secret archive hall in the Divine Domain. He consulted records dating back to the very beginning of the ancient divine war, and at last found the greatest reason why the Undead pantheon was so unwelcome among the gods.

At the very beginning, during the era when the many origin races of the undead were enslaved by humanity's ancestors, the role those undead played was the very job now held by the God of Retribution. They were executioners. They were punishers. They were the harshest enforcers under humanity's ancestors, freely using the cruelest methods to torment every unlucky soul who fell into their grasp.

Many members of the major divine clans had committed offenses and been seized by those freaks of the Undead pantheon. They were tortured until they were a gruesome sight, then forcibly transformed into undead puppets with no intelligence whatsoever, completely controlled by others.

The undead and the other origin races were two utterly opposed extremes. The other origin races had evolved from the vital breath of life within the universe. The undead, on the other hand, had sprung into being from nothing due to the universe's most fundamental law

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