Chu Tian drew a deep breath and lifted the dark gold skeleton with both hands, his movements gentle and solemn, as though he were holding the most precious treasure in the world.
He reverently laid the remains of one of the Seventy-Two Human Kings to rest in his hidden space, at the very center of the newly reconstructed Great Thousand World, beneath the phantom of the Epoch Ancient Pagoda.
The Mysterious Woman remained silent in Chu Tian's mind for a long while before she said softly:
"Back then... he was the strongest fighter under the Primordial Human Emperor."
"What kind of enemy could such a glorious Primordial Era have faced?"
"And what was the relationship between the Great Human Emperor and the Primordial Human Emperor?"
Chu Tian rose without answering and silently continued along the road of bones.
The dark red glow deep in the Primordial Battlefield grew thicker, until it felt as though he were moving through blood.
Chu Tian discovered that this battlefield was not merely a land of death. Countless tiny, faintly gleaming motes floated within the dark red light.
They were fragments of will left behind by fallen figures of heaven-defying power.
As Chu Tian passed, the Dao of Proving the Dao with Force within him resonated fiercely with those fragments.
Broken yet staggering scenes of memory flooded into his mind like a tide.
He saw the Seventy-Two Human Kings before they marched to war.
The starry expanse stretched vast, and the army stood in formation.
The Human Emperor stood before them all in golden imperial robes, his back like an insurmountable divine mountain.
He slowly drew the golden sword at his waist and swung it, forcibly tearing open a passage to an unknown abyss at the end of the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
Before entering