As Liang Zhaohuang listened to the Vermilion Bird Lord's words and connected them with the knowledge, information, and records he had encountered over the years, a few deductions gradually took shape in his mind.
Since beginning his cultivation, he had never seen the four spiritual creatures of heaven and earth in this world: the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise.
Now, it seemed that these four spirit clans had likely been slain and exterminated by Ascended Immortals tens of thousands of years ago, their remains refined into the Four Spirit World-Suppressing Steles, including the Black Tortoise World-Suppressing Stele.
According to the Vermilion Bird Lord, the Four Spirit World-Suppressing Steles had been meant to resist the invasion of the demonic path.
Then it was highly likely that those Ascended Immortals had discovered the danger of the demonic path invading this world long ago. The invasion itself might even have begun earlier still.
The so-called Four Spirit World-Suppressing Steles used the power of the Four Spirits and Four Symbols to penetrate deep into the Great Dao's origin of this world, suppressing and guarding the world, resisting the demonic path's corrosion of its foundation and origin, and fending off the demon realm's invasion.
Yet the demonic path had still invaded this world afterward. The Black Tortoise World-Suppressing Stele had broken here, while the other Four Spirit World-Suppressing Steles had likewise vanished without a trace. Moreover, the Four-Headed Demon Dragon in the Demon Realm Underworld had mastered the origin powers of earth, fire, water, and wind, and when Liang Zhaohuang had once entered the world's origin with a thought, he had seen the great dao of origin being corroded by demonic origin... All of it pointed to the same conclusion.
The methods left behind by the Ascended Immortals—the Four Spirits Suppressing