"Electrolux, does your Shengmo Continent have such a cold place?" Zhong Kui said curiously as he used a flight Soul Tool while searching for the Ice Empress.
Zhong Kui said this because he had never read Divine Throne of Primordial Blood, mainly because the book adopted a Western fantasy system yet used Chinese names.
And there was another point, which was that cuckolded knight who had mentally imagined putting a green hat on himself.
When Zhong Kui heard about these plot details in his past life, he felt extremely speechless, so he chose not to read it, feeling that the author might have a very serious bad taste, and fearing he would be disgusted, he decided against reading it.
Later, however, he heard that Divine Throne of Primordial Blood was being adapted into an anime and the plot was decent, so he originally planned to watch it, only to time travel before he ever got the chance.
"Yes," Electrolux said.
Following that, Electrolux began to name relevant locations.
Cold regions of the Shengmo Continent
Northeastern part of the Shengmo Continent
The surroundings are covered in ice and snow year-round with perpetual snow cover; outside the pass is a bone-chilling, barren wasteland where not a blade of grass grows, swept by forbidden-spell-tier ice and snow storms, serving as a natural barrier to resist the Dragon Clan.
Kunbai Mountain Range / Northeastern Mountain Region
Close to the northeastern strategic town of Jiyang City, belonging to a high-altitude, cold mountainous area with a frigid climate.
Northern freezing wasteland.
These regions were all exceptionally cold places on the Shengmo Continent, giving people the feeling that they were seemingly no less powerful than this extreme north.
"It looks like every world has very cold places. In my hometown, there are cold places like the Arctic and the Antarctic, and both are especially cold places. Because of my world's technological development, however, it seemed to cause some environmental pollution, which caused the weather to slowly grow hotter, causing many places to heat up and the Arctic and Antarctic to slowly grow warmer as well."
"We must pay attention to environmental protection. After all, no matter what, it is our own home. If we choose to destroy the environment for the sake of development and ravage our own home, that is an erroneous and ridiculous behavior."
When Electrolux said this, he likely harbored remorse for having once chosen to drag innocent people into his revenge.
Zhong Kui did not speak. Although he had not read Divine Throne of Primordial Blood, he had heard some of its contents from friends, and he also knew some of Electrolux's story.
For the sake of revenge, Electrolux had indeed harmed innocent people, and he had also mentioned it in the original work.
In the original work, after transforming into the Scourge of the Undead, he led a million-strong undead army to sweep across the continent -- destroying the Kaidun Empire, crushing the remnants of the Pangbo Empire, attacking the Glorious Holy See, and occupying nearly a third of the territory. Large-scale undead wars are indiscriminate; a large number of ordinary soldiers and civilians died in undead massacres or were refined into the undead, rather than only killing enemies.
Later, when Long Haochen and Cai'er entered the Tower of Eternity, Electrolux said to Long Haochen himself:
"No matter how I slaughter them, my family can never be resurrected. Moreover, so many innocent people died because of me. My guilt can never be redeemed for all eternity. I am a sinner of humanity."
Simply put, subjectively, Electrolux only wanted to take revenge on the Holy See and the traitors, which was why he chose to transform into the Scourge of the Undead.
Objectively, however, Electrolux chose to transform into the Scourge of the Undead for his revenge, implicating a vast number of innocent commoners. This was also why, a thousand years later, he felt extreme remorse and was willing to dissipate and redeem himself.
It could be said that Electrolux was indeed a formidable figure, but letting revenge cloud his mind and implicating innocent people into this vortex of revenge was wrong. This was also the reason why he was not a good person.
Therefore, netizens in Zhong Kui's past life all said that Electrolux was pitiful, but he was not a good person either, because he implicated many innocent people.
Furthermore, it triggered another event: objectively, Electrolux's "Scourge of the Undead" greatly facilitated the Demon Clan's subsequent invasion, even though he himself had never cooperated with the Demon Clan nor intentionally helped them.
For instance, it severely weakened humanity's combat strength to resist the Demon Clan.
It destroyed human empires, wiped out the Kaidun Empire, crippled the Pangbo Empire, and heavily battered the Glorious Holy See, severing numerous top human powerhouses and inheritances.
Humanity had just emerged from the undead war with its vitality severely damaged, and due to internal friction and division, various factions were still fighting over territory, unable to unite to deal with external enemies.
When the Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars descended upon the Shengmo Continent, it was mere two hundred plus years after the Scourge of the Undead.
Humanity had yet to recover, the authority of the Glorious Holy See had collapsed, and there was no unified command, causing the Demon Clan to encounter almost no effective resistance in the early stages, allowing them to quickly gain a foothold and expand.
Even characters from the original Divine Throne of Primordial Blood bluntly stated: "Electrolux's Scourge of the Undead led to humanity's decline, which allowed the Demon Clan to exploit the opportunity."
Thus, netizens concluded that Electrolux subjectively only targeted the Holy See and traitors for revenge and had nothing to do with the Demon Clan, but his war objectively destroyed the foundation of humanity's golden age, indirectly creating the conditions for the Demon Clan's effortless invasion.
This was also one of the reasons why, a thousand years later, he felt deep guilt and was willing to redeem himself.
"Speaking of which, it seems an extremely formidable spirit beast has discovered you, and it's very powerful, oh."
"!!!" Hearing Electrolux say this, Zhong Kui realized it was likely the Ice Empress, and soon a huge ice spike shot toward him.
Zhong Kui quickly dodged it at that moment. He had to admit that the speed was truly fast; the speed of this ice spike was so fast that Zhong Kui almost got hit.
Fortunately, Zhong Kui was a dual cultivator practicing both Dou Qi and Soul Power, giving him exceptional combat strength and reaction speed; otherwise, an ordinary Spirit Master would have been struck by this ice spike long ago.
Shortly after, Zhong Kui immediately spotted a huge scorpion, which was obviously the Ice Empress. With an aura this formidable, it was at least at the Title Douluo level—who else could it be besides the Ice Empress?
At this moment, Zhong Kui also quickly flew down and then shouted loudly, "May I ask if Your Excellency is the Ice Empress? The Ice Empress, one of the Ten Great Fierce Beasts?"
"That's right, foolish human! This seat is the Ice Empress, one of the Ten Great Fierce Beasts. What are you doing coming to my extreme north? If you are thinking of hunting, of wanting the soul rings and soul bones of my extreme north's spirit beasts, then forget it! It's impossible for us to collude with humans and kneel down to be dogs for humans!"
The Ice Empress shouted loudly, preparing to launch another attack at any moment.
"You've misunderstood, Ice Empress! We came here wanting to cooperate with you, and it's definitely a good deal. I won't harm a single spirit beast in your extreme north."
Zhong Kui shouted loudly.
"???" When the Ice Empress heard these words, she also wore a blank expression. What kind of joke was this human playing? Not harming spirit beasts? For how many years had humans hunted spirit beasts and acquired soul rings just to grow stronger? Ten thousand years? A million years?
"Ice Empress! I know your 400,000-year tribulation limit is approaching, and you're about to be struck by lightning, right? We can cooperate and help you survive this heavenly tribulation."
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