From Xu Lin, he learned that several decades ago, an extremely strange disturbance had suddenly erupted in the Earth Realm's Heaven and Earth spiritual energy...
Pillars of purple light had suddenly erupted from many mysterious places in the Earth Realm. Numerous heavenly treasures had appeared in those places, and secret realms and treasure grounds had sprung up one after another...
Moreover, the Heaven and Earth spiritual energy throughout the Earth Realm was gradually growing stronger...
These changes had thrilled the Earth Realm's cultivators, but they had also begun to worry. They discovered that more and more cultivators of foreign races were arriving, bearing down on them aggressively, with cultivation and spell power superior to their own...
Perhaps not many cultivators had come yet, nor had the strongest among them arrived, but as time went on, more cultivators from the Upper Realm would surely come to the Earth Realm...
What would happen to the Earth Realm then was anyone's guess...
According to Xu Lin, he had discovered that Purple-Gold Metal Rune in a place called the True Spirit Mountain Range. He had not been the only cultivator to discover the Purple-Gold Metal Runes there...
He said he had only managed to seize one Purple-Gold Metal Rune after a fierce struggle. Four Metal Runes had appeared in total. Xu Lin had obtained one, another cultivator had obtained another, and the remaining two Purple-Gold Metal Runes had plunged straight into that secret realm and vanished...
At the time, Xu Lin had not realized what the Metal Rune did. The battle to seize the Metal Runes had also been so fierce that he had suffered injuries...
Afterward, he had tried to search for the Metal Runes again, but had found nothing. He had nearly suffered even worse injuries and almost lost his life...
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