Mu Qing and Ronan continued deeper into the snowfield.
With Ronan around, who understood the writing of the ancient era, they found many clues and pieces of information, learning that the massive force the Divine Son had built back then had nearly been destroyed by internal strife.
"Those who kept their sanity still couldn't escape their doom in the end." Mu Qing shook his head.
Many fortunate survivors had retained their sanity and followed the Divine Son.
Yet at a certain point, these people too went mad one after another, desperately attacking those around them and slaughtering everything they saw.
Not even the Divine Son, with the Origin Crystal, had been able to stop the tragedy from unfolding.
Another two days passed, and they came upon another enormous church.
This was the Second Church, though it too had become a field of ruins.
There, they saw the remains of a mountain demon.
This mountain demon was extraordinarily huge, nearing the size of a giant. It wore a white holy robe adorned with golden patterns and a golden crown atop its head.
Yet its face was incomparably savage. Its chest had been pierced by an enormous spear, which had nailed it firmly within the church.
The two examined the mountain demon. Though it was only a corpse, they could still sense the powerful aura it had possessed in life.
"This should be the mountain demon that helped the Divine Son leave Heavenly Oracle City. Its bloodline had likely reverted to its ancestors—it was close to transforming into a true giant," Ronan said in surprise.
Mountain demons were merely descendants of the giant race and possessed a portion of giant bloodline.
Even so, mountain demons were generally powerful, all entities at the Dominator level.
True giants, meanwhile, were exceedingly rare—a race akin