Ren paid no mind to what Ye Fan and the others thought. He simply continued, "Xuanming... never mind what they found. Tell us about the secrets of the Earthly Fiend Layer! Dijiang and the others must have reached its fifty-sixth level. They must have uncovered quite a few secrets, right?"
The question immediately drew everyone's attention. No matter how many resources the Earthly Fiend Layer held, its secrets mattered more.
The more they knew about that mysterious place, the better.
Xuanming did not hide anything. "I don't know much about its secrets. My eldest brother and the others didn't go into detail, and they even kept some things from us. But while I was cultivating in seclusion in the Underworld, I learned something from my younger sister Houtu. The deeper you go into the Earthly Fiend Layer, the more it cuts you off from the Heavenly Dao—not the Great Dao!
"Back then, my second brother Zhu Jiuyin said that the deeper we went, the more the Great Dao within us would be suppressed. He was wrong! The Great Dao within the Wu Clan comes from our bloodline—from Father God's bloodline. So while it is suppressed in the Earthly Fiend Layer, the suppression isn't severe. We can still use our Bloodline Divine Abilities, though their strength varies!
"But those members of the Demon Race who cultivated Primordial Spirits had everything within them cut off. Only their physical bodies remained, as if they had become mortals! At the time, my second brother and the others thought they were simply too weak to withstand the Earthly Fiend Layer's suppression. It was only as Houtu grew stronger that we understood. They weren't too weak. They had cultivated Hongjun Immortal Dao, or methods derived from Hongjun's teachings!
"Hongjun merged himself with the Dao, and the