Hearing this, Chen Changsheng's eyelid twitched.
"I have indeed encountered the Uncanny, and more than once."
"At its worst, the Uncanny completely permeated a Small World."
"To eradicate the Uncanny, I launched the Investiture of the Gods War. At the cost of three million cultivators' lives, that Small World was buried with them."
"The Uncanny's methods of infiltration are exceedingly covert. Anything in this world could be a place where they hide."
"Even with the investigation of peerless great powers, no one would dare claim that not a single fish had slipped through the net."
"And once one of those fish escaped, it would swiftly grow like wild grass."
"To destroy them, one could only burn them with Spirit Fire."
Facing Chen Changsheng's reply, Pang Tong nodded. "It seems your research into the Uncanny truly runs very deep."
"But Spirit Fire is not the only means of eliminating the Uncanny."
"Auspicious beasts and Heavenly Mandates can both kill the Uncanny. The method of bearing a Heavenly Mandate was also developed in the process of fighting the Uncanny."
"In other words, long ago, Heavenly Emperor-level cultivation was not the end of the path of cultivation."
"I believe you have noticed this as well. People such as the Great Emperor of the Four Brahma Heavens and Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li all possessed strength beyond the Heavenly Emperor level."
"I know all that, but I'm not interested in it right now."
"What I most want to know is why the Uncanny makes you so afraid."
At those words, Pang Tong's expression grew even graver.
"The Uncanny is a form of energy, a living creature, and, more than that, an idea."
"Though energy-type and biological-type Uncanny are formidable, so long as one is willing to fill the gap with lives, there will ultimately