Ji Zhen!
Ji Lai Kingdom!
Nameless rubbed his chin as he looked at the two names in the report.
According to the intelligence, the disaster had indeed struck around Emperor Ji Kai's time. If Emperor Ji Kai had lost, humanity could very well have become food for the Mutated Beasts.
So this was a timeline where Emperor Ji Kai had been defeated?
But Ji Zhen, the mighty man who had appeared out of nowhere afterward, struck Nameless as something of a mystery. His ability was Myriad Beast Transformation, and people called him the Beast King.
He could transform into all kinds of beasts. Using that ability, he infiltrated their ranks, then found ways to kill them.
Countless versions of Ji Zhen's exploits circulated throughout Ji Lai Kingdom, but Nameless had a feeling none of them told the truth. Too many details failed to add up. Most tellingly, every story ended with Ji Zhen vanishing, not dying.
"This smells like someone spreading legends. Could Ji Zhen be an Ascender too?"
Nameless examined the report more closely. A flash of insight struck him: these stories were remarkably similar to the methods he used to gather Legendary Attainment.
Perhaps Ji Zhen had not died at all. He might simply have gone into hiding, quietly gathering Legendary Attainment while he waited for his chance to ascend.
Ji Zhen had slaughtered his way through countless foes before suddenly disappearing. As a result, the surviving people of Ji Lai Kingdom had essentially been animals living in groups, with no human civilization left to inherit.
They revered the strong and gradually formed tribes. Only then did they reclaim human civilization, step by step.
But much went wrong along the way. People were divided into rigid ranks, slavery became widespread, and no one cared whether the weak lived