"What is the root cause of the conflict between humans and devils?" Zhang Tie immediately perked up at Tang Mei's words and asked.
"The root cause of the conflict between humans and devils lies right here!" Tang Mei said with utter certainty, pointing at the enormous multicolored stone that continuously gushed forth the Nine Heavens Divine Spring.
"This stone?" Zhang Tie scrutinized it again. "You mean the struggle between humans and devils is over this stone?"
Fighting over this stone meant fighting over the Nine Heavens Divine Spring. That did seem to make sense in the Sky-Piercing Realm, but in the world he had come from, there had been no Nine Heavens Divine Spring at all, and yet the conflict between humans and devils had never ceased. How could that be explained?
"Of course they are not fighting over this divine stone!" Tang Mei shook her head. "No one in the entire Sky-Piercing Realm knows where this stone came from—not even the successive Wa Emperors of the Wa Emperor Palace. But according to the legends of the Wa Emperor Palace, this divine stone contains the secret history of the ancient gods, and within it lies the root cause of the conflict between humans and devils!"
"So that's how it is!" Zhang Tie suddenly understood. Thinking of that so-called secret history of the gods, he could hardly wait to try. "Then I'll give it a try..."
As he spoke, Zhang Tie sent a thread of spiritual energy into the divine stone. The moment that powerful strand of spiritual energy touched the stone's surface, before it could penetrate any deeper, it was absorbed—as though a drop of water had fallen into a parched desert.
Strange. How could this happen?
Seeing the strange look on Zhang Tie's face, Tang Mei also tried sending