"The Longevity Banquet... It seemed this world was important."
Even if it was only a fragment of the past unfolding anew.
It was still a promising lead.
At least it meant he had found the source.
The Long River of Time in Cosmic Heaven had also been affected. It was deeply strange.
There could not be much of the true past left.
The corpse's Great Dao had been corrupted and fallen so terribly that tracing this world's cultivation system back to its roots brought forth faint wisps of demonic energy.
Those who cultivated to the end lost even more reason than ordinary Demonic Cultivators.
They were practically Fierce Beasts.
Let him think. The Longevity Banquet was about to begin, wasn't it?
As for how much power to bring to bear this time... Well, after the groundwork laid by the previous mission, he could intervene with a little more.
This ancient Dynasty had endured for over five hundred years.
But today, news of the Longevity Banquet seemed to breathe an eerie vitality into even this oldest of dynasties.
The news stirred the Dynasty into a storm of intrigue, and countless figures in the shadows began to move.
Outsiders who should never have appeared in this bygone age joined in as well.
Infinite Paradise was as generous as it was cruel. Those who had made it this far as mission-takers carried a certain madness in their bones.
But what happened after the Longevity Banquet had nothing to do with mission-takers who had completed their main mission.
"We can finally leave. That Capital City was something else, though."
Their group had reached the outskirts of the Capital City. Centuries of prosperity had settled upon the ancient city.
Yet an evil presence clung to it, like a fallen god out of some fantastical world.