Based on the information from before, along with what he had uncovered recently, Zhang Yuanqing's imagination ran wild, and countless bold, chaotic conjectures surged into his mind.
In the distant, unknown ancient past, a world-shaking upheaval had occurred. That change had been caused by the confrontation between the two great camps—or perhaps there had been other factors as well.
After that, spiritual power began to decline, and the world fell into disorder and chaos. Later generations cultivated by relying on spiritual power, and all kinds of professions emerged.
They had all been free, with no conflict between camps. Evil Professions and Orderly Professions could coexist peacefully. But that was not the norm. As spiritual power gradually dried up, ancient cultivators went extinct, and an era came to an end.
Then the Spirit Realm was born, the confrontation between the two great camps was reestablished, and a new cycle began with the birth of the Spirit Realm.
That was why the Light Compass had made such a prophecy!
The logic connects, but there are still far too many loopholes and missing details. If I let my imagination run even wilder, I could think of it this way—every mass extinction was a grand cycle. Since the birth of heaven and earth, there have already been countless cycles... Feels like I could write a novel about it, Zhang Yuanqing thought.
There were too many mysteries. Without evidence, getting even one guess wrong could lead to vastly different conclusions.
For example, perhaps the cause of the apocalypse was humanity's excessive evil thoughts, which twisted into terrifying monsters. In truth, Evil Professions might be humanity's emotional trash cans, bearing the karmic fire on humanity's behalf.
The Orderly Professions were the true villains. They wanted to eliminate and destroy those trash cans, allowing the garbage to