"In the end, we paid an unimaginably terrible price, nearly exhausting the reserves of all three clans, before we barely managed to bury that era when fiends and savage beasts ran rampant."
"But not all of the strongest fiends and savage beasts died."
Yuanfeng's voice suddenly grew exceptionally grave, even carrying a trace of a tremor.
"They were too powerful. On top of that, Heaven's Way had yet to take shape then, so no power could erase them completely. To prevent them from rising again, we could only seal them separately within three forbidden grounds of the Primordial World."
"Beneath the boundless earth."
"In the depths of the endless sea eyes."
"And the last was here... the Undying Volcano!"
Boom!
Yuanfeng's words exploded in Dijiang's mind like divine thunder from the highest heavens.
His understanding suffered a tremendous shock.
He had always believed that the leaders of the three clans used their own bodies to suppress these forbidden grounds to cleanse the karmic burden they had incurred during the Initial Tribulation of Longhan.
He had never imagined that such an earth-shattering secret lay behind it!
What they were suppressing was not some upheaval of the earth's veins, but ancient fiends and savage beasts that could destroy the Primordial World at any moment!
"No wonder..."
Dijiang murmured to himself, "No wonder you not only survived the scorching of karmic fire, but even broke through to become a primordial Daluo Golden Immortal."
"You've been drawing on the origins of those sealed fiends to resist the karmic fire, and even... absorbing their power?!"
Yuanfeng did not deny it. She merely gave a bitter smile.
"I had no other choice. Without borrowing their power, I would have been burned to ashes by the karmic fire long ago. But this is no different from drinking