"Just as I thought, other cultivators have already discovered this treasure land of auspicious geomancy. The Golden Sun Gate isn't the only one eyeing it!"
This was vital information Li Chen had obtained from the minds of the Shaman Tribe Remnants.
To avoid causing unnecessary trouble for his own memories and sanity, Luo Changshan had devised a specialized filtering method for the information obtained through the Brain-Reading Technique.
But Li Chen had done even better, archiving it as data and interpreting it from a third-person perspective.
Thus, what he learned now came in the form of autobiographical records rendered by Heavenly Pivot in text or images, or scenes observed from another person's perspective.
What he saw now included terrifying legends some Shaman Tribe Remnants had heard from their parents and elders as children, as well as things some had personally seen and heard after leaving the mountain forests to venture into the outside world.
The "demons" they spoke of originally referred to a band of wilderness rogue cultivators who had appeared in the Shaman Folk Kingdom on the Western Continent shortly after the Golden Sun Gate's scouts arrived. Later, the term expanded to include all the enemies from the Outer Domain whom those rogue cultivators brought in.
Their Dao Paths included those of sword cultivators, spellcasters, and martial artists, but most were only at the Qi Refining level. Like Wu Ding, they had obtained incomplete inheritances from cultivation sects on the Other Continent.
They were all rogue cultivators from the Star Sea, where warfare was constant and the Outer Dao often appeared. Cultivators of various Dao Paths mingling together was hardly unusual there.
Nevertheless, the prevailing paths still differed from place to place. This particular band was led by a puppet master.
He called himself the Centipede Daoist. After reaching