"Haha, enough with the pleasantries. Yang Chen, if there's anything you don't understand, just ask me. I'll tell you everything," Great Emperor Hua Wu said.
Yang Chen nodded. Without standing on ceremony, he asked, "This junior already understands a little about the Gate of Proving the Dao, but what exactly does it mean to clear out the Gate of Proving the Dao?"
"Let me put it this way. The Gate of Proving the Dao opens roughly once every one to two hundred years. No one can accurately predict the exact timing. However, the royal family and our four sects all possess mystical methods of calculation. The Tu Lang Beast race and the Fire Spirit Beast race have such methods as well, so we can roughly calculate when the Gate of Proving the Dao will open. When Great Emperor Renhu came earlier, he was already here to explain this matter," Great Emperor Hua Wu said.
Yang Chen nodded. He knew a little about this matter as well.
"Before the Gate of Proving the Dao opens, there will be a great number of Dao Slaves before it. Of course, Dao Slaves is merely the name we gave them. What that species is truly called, we have no idea. There is no record of it in the ancient texts either," Great Emperor Hua Wu said.
Yang Chen was stunned. It seemed there was still much unknown territory that humanity had yet to explore.
"What exactly are these Dao Slaves?" Yang Chen asked.
"Key fragments exist within the Dao Slaves' bodies. Roughly every five to seven Dao Slaves killed will allow the fragments to be combined into one complete key," Great Emperor Hua Wu said.
"And the purpose of these complete keys is...?" Yang Chen asked.
"Their purpose is to explore the treasures within