No matter how he looked at it, it felt so mechanical that Chen Chong was thoroughly displeased.
But before the Devil Lord, he could not say much. He immediately nodded. "Lead the way. Let's go take a look. By the way, I've been in Nightmare Capital for so long—has anything changed outside?"
"How could there not be? The changes have been enormous. But after you help Master break open Cangming Snow Mountain, the Cangming Realm will undergo further changes. I'll give you a rough explanation on the way." Zhu Hong made a gesture of invitation.
"There will be more changes?"
Chen Chong voiced his suspicion, then followed his guidance forward.
They circled around the main hall from the side and stepped onto the jade corridor leading toward the back mountain. Only then did Zhu Hong begin to explain, "Although the Cangming Realm and the Cosmic Realm have had a passage connecting them since ancient times, that passage was fraught with peril. Though people entered from time to time, there were never many.
"But after the ancient Cangming Realm shattered, that passage expanded ten thousandfold. While it still could not accommodate a thousand people traveling together, a hundred passing through would not be a problem. Fortunately, the various factions each sent people to block it, so few foreign enemies managed to enter.
"Ever since the ancient Cangming Realm shattered, Master's consciousness has awakened for who knew how many years. His hatred for the Immortal Emperor drove him to oppose the Immortal Emperor at every turn. The Immortal Emperor destroyed the ancient Cangming Realm, so he sought to rebuild it.
"All these years, Master has devoted himself to rebuilding Cangming. Yet Cangming had been destroyed after all; even if rebuilt, it would no longer be the ancient Cangming. For reasons even I