"Good... very good. What is there to fear!"
"I have seen far too many prodigies, and quite a few possessed the bearing of a King. Unfortunately, they were all too arrogant, and in the end, they stopped here."
"Since that is the case, let me show you the road I have traveled. Perhaps it will also help you become a King."
Yuan Heng's voice rang out once more.
"Buzz!"
In an instant, the skeleton upon the Throne erupted with unimaginably brilliant immortal light. The once deathly silent palace was drowned in endless radiance.
Su Bai only felt the scene before him twist violently as Space-Time reversed. The next moment, he was no longer within that ruined hall.
Instead, he found himself in a strange world, witnessing a sealed history from a perspective that transcended Space-Time.
It was a Small World where spiritual energy was thin.
A simply dressed youth ran through the mountains and fields, practicing his fists beneath waterfalls.
When children his age had already begun working in the fields, their futures set in stone, he had made up his mind to leave the mountains!
His name was Yuan Heng.
At the age of fourteen, he left behind a letter and entered the mountains alone.
He said that he wanted to see the world beyond the mountains.
The hundred-thousand-mile mountain range was boundless and vast, with no end in sight.
Demonic beasts ran rampant within it, while poisonous insects bred in swarms. Ordinary people simply could not survive there, and even if they barely did, they would inevitably be tormented by illness and pain.
He chose to enter those perilous mountains himself, gambling his life on that faint sliver of hope!
What, exactly, lay in the distance!
Three months later, the bloodstained youth emerged from the mountains. Looking