"Spiritual energy revival?"
Xiao Yan pondered Yao Wan's somewhat strange term, feeling as though he had heard it somewhere before.
"Though he has been chattering nonstop ever since he came out, he has lived for tens of thousands of years. Even if his cultivation is now inferior to ours, his knowledge and experience still surpass ours."
Yao Wan shook her head. Though she remained somewhat unwilling to accept it, facts were facts, and she had no choice but to concede.
Living a long time did have its advantages.
"If I am not mistaken, the Dou Qi Continent gradually lost its ability to produce Dou Di not solely because Source Qi had dried up. The depletion of Heaven and Earth Power caused by the battle between the ancestors of the eight clans and the Spirit Devouring Saint King during the Tunling Clan's invasion must also have been a major factor."
Yao Wan raised her pale golden eyes and gazed at the land before her. Then she suddenly said, "The present Dou Qi Continent is probably what Zhongzhou was back then, isn't it?"
"What?"
"This is merely a conjecture based on the Spirit Devouring Saint King swallowing the space of an entire region. It may not be right, but I think the possibility is fairly high."
"In the past, the Spirit Devouring Saint King led the Tunling Clan in devouring the Dou Qi Continent until only the present territory remained. Then the ancestors of the eight clans defeated him. From then on, most of the energy between heaven and earth had been swallowed by the Tunling Clan and transformed into demonic qi."
"Even after the Spirit Devouring Saint King was killed, it followed the Demon Fetus through reincarnation, forming the Ruins of Forgetfulness, a cycle of burial grounds specifically meant to erase