The mountain wind visited each Divine Temple in turn, moaning as it passed between the stone pillars.
Chen Shu sat on the ground, lost in Thought.
Otherworld...
In modern terms, it should be called a plane.
According to modern spatial studies, they lived in a "Greater Plane Hive Universe." The universe was like a hive, divided by an invisible force that was difficult to observe closely into countless cells. Each cell was a plane.
Chen Shu had a girlfriend who studied Spatial and Plane Studies and wasn't dating anyone, so he knew a little about it.
So this had been a war between planes.
It had lasted at least several thousand years and ended a few centuries ago.
But the power left behind by the Gods of Otherworld still affected this continent, making it a Forbidden Zone for human Cultivators and an affliction weighing on all humanity.
Fortunately, Otherworldly Beasts guarded it.
"So that's how it was."
Chen Shu felt as though the clouds had parted before his eyes.
Ning Qing, sitting beside him, felt the same.
The Esoteric Sect was not omniscient or all-powerful. Quite the opposite: how much information its Cultivators possessed was crucial to them.
The two exchanged a glance.
The wind moaned around them.
Without a word, they rose together and left the Divine Temple.
Behind them, Zhang Suannai looked baffled. She asked where they were going as she got up and followed them to explore the Divine Temple.
The Divine Temples stood among the mountains, magnificent ancient grottoes numbering several dozen in all. They were built to the same specifications and weathered to different degrees, but none retained a recognizable original appearance.
Chen Shu visited them one by one.
For a moment, melancholy filled him.
If these Gods had truly existed, they had probably died