Urged on by the four of them, all the experts swiftly headed south.
The imperial city lay to the west, and another Evil Venerable was approaching from that direction. They had to avoid him.
Chu Zhiyuan headed west.
Halfway there, he suddenly stopped, memories of the Evil Venerable surfacing in his mind.
Chu Liezhao had already extracted them from the Haoyang Demon Subduing Mirror.
Naturally, Chu Zhiyuan, Leng Tieya, and Zhu Lingyun now knew as well.
The Evil Venerable came from another level of heaven, the higher Youmeng Heaven.
The cultivation path in Youmeng Heaven differed from that of this world, placing greater emphasis on spiritual cultivation.
One condensed Spiritual Power, steadily tempering and purifying it step by step, like forging a sword—the sword of the spirit.
There were righteous and evil paths in this cultivation. The righteous path was to cultivate upward step by step, purifying it again and again until quantitative change became qualitative transformation.
The evil path, however, drew upon Faith Power, using it to alter Spiritual Power, making it easier to temper and purify. It spared both effort and worry, and its progress was remarkably swift.
This Evil Venerable had taken the evil path, drawing upon the Faith Power of the Giant Spirit Sect disciples.
Bestowing power upon them was meant to make them believe and worship him even more deeply.
And his descent into this lower realm was for the purpose of stealing a rare treasure, an ancient treasure that had fallen from Youmeng Heaven.
This treasure could directly transform Spiritual Power into its highest level, completely converting the spirit into a divine spirit.
From then on, one would enter the Spirit Realm—the Divine Realm—becoming undying and indestructible.
As Chu Zhiyuan reached this point in the memories, he could not help but be astonished. He