From Zi Zhenzhu's account, Zhao Su and the others gained a preliminary understanding of Ancient Ruins Mountain.
It was a place that belonged entirely to the age of primeval jungles, where people fought and slaughtered one another, and the strong reigned supreme.
There were no laws to restrain anyone. As long as they were powerful enough, they could do whatever they pleased.
Ancient Ruins Mountain opened once every hundred years not merely because the gods needed to absorb Soul Masters' souls to ensure their own everlasting lives.
The so-called gods were not truly immortal and indestructible.
As time passed and their vitality was depleted, they too would enter periods of weakness.
To avoid death and remain powerful, they had to strengthen their own souls with the souls of others.
Thus, every so-called god could be called an Evil Soul Master.
Those gods unwilling to absorb other people's souls had long since vanished like smoke and scattered clouds in the long river of time.
In truth, every world was the same. No one truly sympathized with the weak.
Only by becoming powerful could people truly take control of their own lives.
Another reason was that they treated the Soul Masters of the Douluo Continent as prey, as whetstones on which their descendants could hone themselves.
Only the exceptional few who survived to the end while being hunted by the natives of Ancient Ruins Mountain
would become those "favored" by the gods and thereby obtain tremendous power.
However, these "fortunate ones" favored by the gods would all become their puppets, just as Tang Chen had been parasitized by the Nine-Headed Bat King.
Through them, the gods could manipulate the Douluo Continent.
This was also why Qian Daoliu had not left his place of secluded cultivation in Spirit Hall for many years.
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