That night.
Inside the Stone Tower at Moon Perching Pavilion.
"Sister Lingyue, how did you tell that this Immortal Gourd Grotto-Heaven was one of those fragments of the Ancient Times Immortal-Demon Battlefield you mentioned?"
After holding the question in for a long while, Xu Taiping finally could not resist asking Fairy Lingyue.
"I was once fortunate enough to obtain several maps of the Ancient Times Immortal-Demon Battlefield. The terrain on one of them was almost identical to the map you have, especially that Jade Gourd Peak."
"According to legend, Jade Gourd Peak was a divine artifact belonging to a mighty ancient cultivator who fell on the battlefield. What you call the Spirit Spring was formed from that artifact's remaining Spiritual Power."
"That was precisely what convinced me that this was the site of that Ancient Times Immortal-Demon Battlefield."
Fairy Lingyue explained to Xu Taiping.
"What was the history of this Ancient Times Immortal-Demon Battlefield?"
A damaged divine artifact from ancient times still had Spiritual Power flowing out of it even now. How could he not be curious?
"If we really traced it back, that great war might have taken place a million years ago. Legend has it that the Nine Abysses was at the very height of its power then. Even beings like the Devil Master were mere small fry."
"Human cultivators spent hundreds of thousands of years devising a plan to trap several of the most powerful Demon Gods of the time within a realm. Then the nine strongest human cultivators of that era, willing to pay the price of their own destruction, perished together with those Demon Gods. In the end, that entire realm was blasted to pieces."
"The nine largest fragments were later collected by the Human Sovereign, the Flame Emperor, and refined into nine Grotto-Heaven Secret