Questionless Scholar stepped out of the darkness, frowning as he watched Su Chen and Li Chuyuan leave.
With a spell, he vanished from where he stood.
When he reappeared, he was already within a mountain covered in the flesh and blood of the Heavenly Dao Prophet. After passing through the formations within and entering a secret realm, he arrived at a place carpeted with white bones, where cultivators of Tianli Hall cultivated throughout the area.
People occasionally returned to the secret realm carrying corpses, then delivered those corpses to other cultivators to be refined into pills, magical treasures...
"Alas."
Questionless Scholar sighed. He dearly missed the world of old. Those mountains and rivers he had once grown tired of looking at had truly been rare beauties, and even the bustle of mortal life had not been so unbearable.
It was all because the world now covered by the Heavenly Dao Prophet's flesh and blood had long since changed beyond recognition. Flesh-covered ground was the norm, so many powerful cultivators opened secret realms like this one to escape the Heavenly Dao Prophet's perception and Devour. The living beings of the world were like creatures dwelling within the Heavenly Dao Prophet's body.
Under such circumstances, many "monsters" also appeared upon the body covered by the Heavenly Dao Prophet's flesh and blood. The cultivators in the secret realms would kill those monsters. They often possessed powerful spiritual energy, which could replenish the spiritual energy within the secret realms.
This created a situation where ordinary living beings simply did not appear in the outside world, instead surviving within secret realms. Cultivation outside was difficult, and there were no resources to speak of. Thus, cultivators within every secret realm kept its location strictly secret, because the secret realm itself was the greatest resource... The world