As Shen Longcheng guided him, the secrets imprinted on Li Chen's mind unfolded page by page, and he finally began to understand the history known to the Creation Sect's upper ranks.
As it turned out, the Outer Dao had already been developing for hundreds of millions of years, yet living beings had existed even before that, passing through multiple, far more ancient epochs and repeated cycles of rise and fall.
Even the younger stars beneath all living beings' feet commonly had histories spanning over a billion years. The older ones had existed for several billion, tens of billions, or even longer.
For the vast majority of that time, the undying immortals had held dominion. How could their influence and remnants possibly be ignored?
Shen Longcheng told Li Chen that the Earthly Immortal Continent was one of the fragments of the so-called ancient immortal realm. It was itself the greatest remnant.
The Spell Dao had emerged from the Immortal Dao, while the various paths of the Righteous Qi Continent, and the Puppet Dao itself, were also closely connected to the Spell Dao.
However, the Witch Dao's inheritance had long since been severed, leaving only scattered embers. Cultivating to immortality and ascending had likewise become legend with the destruction of the Immortal Dao. Only those divine beings, possessing the power of undying immortality, had survived through the epochs and remained to this day.
The present Spell Dao had a history of only a few tens of millions of years, and the Puppet Dao only a million. Eastern Victory had entered its modern age a mere hundred thousand years ago. Truly, it was a white steed flashing past a crack-a fleeting instant.
"Could Immortals and Gods have descended to the mortal world even in recent times?" Li Chen's expression darkened.
His horizons had