"Abandon Shangqing and Sumeru?"
Hearing this claim for the first time, both Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu's expressions changed drastically.
Deeply puzzled, Lin Buyu asked:
"Shangqing, Sumeru, and Taiqing all lie within the same Greater Domain. When the Great Void Calamity descends, how could Taiqing Paradise alone remain unscathed?"
Having recovered many of her memories as an Immortal Official, Lin Buyu knew more than ordinary cultivators about where Shangqing, Taiqing, and Sumeru lay.
Fairy Lingyue shook her head and said:
"In truth, I never found an answer in Taiqing Paradise as to precisely how to withstand the Great Void Calamity. To Taiqing Paradise, resisting the Great Void Calamity was already an extremely distant part of history."
"I only know in broad terms that the Jade Emperor won that internal struggle, then immediately abandoned the Ancient Heavenly Court, leading the Heavenly Court's elite through the Void into Taiqing Paradise, where he rebuilt the Heavenly Court."
"From that time onward, Sumeru and Shangqing became the lands that bore the calamity for Taiqing Paradise in its resistance against the Great Void Calamity."
"And the way they bore it was through the repeated destruction and replacement of the strongest races in Sumeru and Shangqing, crossing the sea beneath heaven's unsuspecting gaze to deceive the Great Void Calamity and send it into slumber time and again."
"For the Great Void Calamity itself is a force of pure annihilation."
After hearing Fairy Lingyue's words, Xu Taiping suddenly felt that Dragon Emperor Ao Yan's dying words were coming true one by one.
Xu Taiping drew a deep breath and said:
"If all of this is true, I would even suspect that Taiqing's power was behind the Demon Mother's second awakening."
Fairy Lingyue said gravely:
"There is no need to suspect it. The Demon Mother's second awakening was