When it came to demands involving the secrets of worlds and promises, this was not excessive at all.
After Feng Jun and the others made their promise, they received more than a hundred volumes concerning the hidden history of this world.
More than thirty of them had actually been written by visiting Venerables, while another two had been recorded by True Lords.
In other words, when powerful cultivators came to travel here, they might not only be invited to help hold the fort, but also be asked to leave behind some of their insights.
That was only natural. The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants enjoyed the shade. Since they had benefited from the protection of those before them, caring for those who came after was their duty.
Qing Yao and Yi Jue even discovered the names of predecessors from their own sect among those Venerables.
Jing Nian, however, was somewhat surprised that he had not found the names of any predecessors from the Azure Lotus Sect.
Still, some of the volumes bore no names, and the Guardian Hall guaranteed the credibility of these records. There had to be a reason for that.
Xuanyuan Buqi was astonished to discover that a Kun cultivator from the Xuanyuan Clan had left behind a volume of secret history—and he knew her.
That Kun cultivator was not much older than him, yet she had gone traveling while only at the Nascent Soul realm.
What she recorded in the volume also showed that even after coming here, she had still been at the Nascent Soul realm.
A Nascent Soul cultivator traveling Beyond Heaven... that was rather unusual. Xuanyuan Buqi calculated with his fingers and learned that the woman had long since perished.
He asked Qing Jia a couple of questions, and Qing Jia tremblingly replied,