Wu Chu had a faint suspicion, but he did not interrupt Pangu's account.
Sure enough, Pangu soon reached the crucial point. "We joined forces and defeated the Devouring Demon God. Unwilling to accept defeat, he tried to use a Primordial Spirit-devouring method to consume my Primordial Spirit. In the end, however, I killed him instead and devoured both his Great Dao and Primordial Spirit. Only then did I learn of his origins from his Primordial Spirit, as well as the Heaven-Opening Method for Dao Attainment."
Playing the perfect straight man, Wu Chu promptly asked, "The Devouring Demon God was actually trying to incite a war among the Demon Gods so he could use the Heaven-Opening Method to attain the Dao, wasn't he?"
Pangu nodded slightly. "Indeed! After obtaining that method, I simply slew all the remaining Demon Gods on his side and used it to open the heavens, to see whether I could advance further. Yet who would have thought that although the world was created, I also suffered the backlash of the Great Dao of Primordial Chaos? My body could no longer withstand that force. It appeared as though I had died from exhaustion, dissolving and merging into this world."
Wu Chu asked again, "Was the Devouring Demon God an Outer Universe Being?"
"He had been possessed by an Outer Universe Being. Without the body and Primordial Spirit of a living being from this Primordial Chaos, an Outer Universe Being cannot gain the recognition of this Primordial Chaos's Great Dao Will."
Pangu let out a quiet sigh. "From his Primordial Spirit, I learned that Outer Universe Beings like him came from a place called the Eternal True Realm. There, beings who attained Sagehood through the Heaven-Opening Method were far from rare. Sages who attained the Dao in ways like