"The Heavenly Dao has flaws; what is flawless must suffer harm. Not only the spells and cultivation techniques cultivators practice, but everything born of heaven and earth must abide by this principle."
"The Human Race is naturally no exception."
Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland lowered his voice as he explained to Xu Taiping.
"So Mortal Bone is that flaw in the Human Race..."
Understanding dawned on Xu Taiping's face.
With this reminder from Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland, he suddenly understood why that line had been carved on the Spirit Bone Stele-Mortal Bone had no fate with the path of immortality.
"The Luan-Phoenix and True Dragon races, which once dominated Primordial Antiquity, ultimately incurred the Heavenly Dao's jealousy because their bloodlines were too powerful. By the Primordial Era, they had become completely extinct."
Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland continued.
"The Luan-Phoenix and True Dragon races actually went extinct because of that?"
At these words, Xu Taiping's heart jolted again.
He had once heard Fairy Lingyue mention in passing that the Luan-Phoenix and True Dragons had ruled the Human Race too brutally, and that after the Spirit Bone Stele descended into the world, the Human Race's great cultivators had joined forces to wipe them out.
It was also then that the Human Race had used treasures seized from the Luan-Phoenix and True Dragon races to carve out a territory in Outer Heaven and build that incomparably magnificent Heavenly Court.
And this Heavenly Court had become the symbol of the Human Race at its zenith.
But now Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland said that the extinction of the True Dragon and True Phoenix races had nothing to do with the Human Race, which Xu Taiping found somewhat difficult to accept for the moment.
"Xu Taiping, what you can understand at present is merely the surface. There