Hearing Hecatos say that, Bai Zhu lowered the Guan Dao instead.
"I don't even know when I became the inheritor. How did this debt end up on my head?"
Bai Zhu lifted a foot and stepped on a steel cable.
"When did Zhang Ye come here? Where did he start? How many places did he seal off? When did I arrive, and how long was the gap? Explain it clearly, then I'll consider who this debt should be collected from."
Hecatos held up its hands, and tens of thousands of skeletons stopped where they were.
Yet the fine golden particles surrounding Bai Zhu did not retreat. They hovered around him, forming golden arrows that pointed at him.
"You're willing to listen?"
"I'm already in here. What's a little more time?"
Bai Zhu dragged over a broken section of wall, kicked off the skull resting on it, and sat down.
"Go on, tell me. Don't skip the part where you got beaten up. I'm very interested."
Hecatos stared at him for a long time. The steel cables behind it fell to the ground one by one.
It had been alone for too long.
After Zhang Ye died, no one entered this city again. Now that someone with power from the same source had arrived, it finally had someone to whom it could pour out the grievances it had bottled up for ten thousand years.
"Zhang Ye began at the edge of the continent."
Hecatos raised a hand, and the glowing lines on the ground lit up once more.
"Chimera creatures lived there. They devoured, adapted, and reproduced. Every generation evolved at an astonishing speed."
A path of light stretched from the ruins toward the distance.
More than a dozen nodes lit up along the route. Several had already gone dark, while