"The human race in the final years of the Myriad Laws Immortal Dynasty—the depth of its corruption..."
Jiang Ding finished reading the cultivation manuals around him one by one. What he found was shocking.
Only a third of the manuals in this destroyed Golden Core sect contained so-called Dao Fruit cultivation methods. The remaining two-thirds taught ordinary, classical methods.
Looking through the sect's history, he saw that it had been in the midst of a transition. Two great lineages had begun to emerge within it, with orderly succession taking shape.
Halfway through that transition, a rival Golden Core sect had wiped it out.
Was there more to its destruction than appeared?
Jiang Ding made a few quick deductions.
"Among the strongest Nascent Soul sects in this region, a certain 'important figure' needed to advance to the Nascent Soul realm. That was why this sect was destroyed: causality and fortune drew it toward its doom."
"The causality behind that Nascent Soul sect leads, in turn, to the Fallen Wood Sect at the very top of the Absolute Spirit Domain... one layer wrapped around another."
"What a splendid shortcut this path is. One can advance without much effort at all."
Jiang Ding sighed softly.
He took no cultivation manuals or secret arts and left at once.
Now he understood the source of the turmoil and slaughter everywhere.
Certain beings needed humans to fight and kill one another across the land, dying without end. Only then would Dao Fruits keep appearing, ready to be harvested and refined into pills for advancement.
He traveled on, examining and assessing everything along the way.
At last, Jiang Ding reached the vicinity of the Fallen Wood Sect, the strongest sect in the Absolute Spirit Domain.
It possessed the strongest spirit vein in the Absolute Spirit Domain. Though