Within the Immortal Palace, inside the Azure Coffin's starry world, Ning Chen stepped inside to investigate the source of the Darkness Power.
Within the starry world, ages evolved until the early primordial era. When human cultivators rose in radiant ascension and became immortals, the dark aura upon them remained in the human realm.
Chaos held clarity and turbidity: the clear rose to become heaven, while the turbid sank to form earth.
The human heart held good and evil. Kind thoughts rose in radiant ascension, while evil thoughts remained below in the human realm.
Over thousands upon thousands of years, evil thoughts in the human world accumulated grain by grain, until they finally became a darkness that blotted out heaven and covered the sun.
In the starry world, Ning Chen watched the passage of ages, while the vitality within him rapidly dissipated along with them.
Within the coffin world, a single instant spanned a hundred years. To understand the origin of the darkness, Ning Chen stood in the starry world for a full thirty thousand years.
Over thirty thousand years, half of Ning Chen's vitality had dispersed. Even with the body of an Immortal Demon, he found it difficult to endure.
Over those long years, countless powerhouses of the human realm ascended to the Immortal Realm, and the Darkness Power accumulating in the human realm grew ever greater, nearly condensing into tangible form.
Gradually, after an unknown length of time, the Darkness Power in the human realm actually began to develop consciousness. Though exceedingly faint, it could be clearly sensed.
The Darkness Power that had just gained awareness was still very weak, like a child holding a sharp divine sword, capable of unleashing only limited power.
Yet no one noticed the Darkness Power that had begun to sprout. Even the immortal