"No matter what, learning of the Past King's existence was a good thing!"
Grand Elder Tian Heng was no ordinary man, after all. He soon shook off his despondency and brooding silence and spoke calmly to the others.
"Our earlier suspicions have also been confirmed. Those Earth Demons indeed possess many mystic treasures of the Immortal Alliance, all of which should originally have been transported to the Pengyuan Great Star Realm, where grotto heavens would take root and develop into Dao lineages for later generations!"
In the Past King's memories, the Immortal Alliance's upper ranks had entrusted him with escorting a shipment of resources and a group of Successors to the lower realm. But he had been ambushed along the way and trapped here, unable to escape, leaving him no choice but to use those resources ahead of time.
Later, the Earth Demons native to this world had been tamed and transformed by him. While the Past King slumbered, they dug up the mystic treasures he had buried and gradually multiplied, forming kingdoms with their own distinctive characteristics.
Some Earth Demons obtained evil spirit magical artifacts or beings such as Treasure Sovereigns, giving rise to Guardian Deities for their kingdoms. Others obtained Divine Weapon Immortal Spirit Talismans and thus gained armies of Divine Weapon Puppets, while still others obtained the Cloud-Cleaving Combat Art and thereby acquired methods of essence refining into qi.
Combined with certain secret arts of the Talisman Way, Formation Dao, and Dharma Dao, these developed into a system of witchcraft.
This was why the native beings of this world possessed so many systems of power, with such peculiar styles.
They were all human cultivators who upheld the supremacy of the Human Race. They believed that the same Ancient Cultivator legacies could only reveal their true worth in