The bustle in Stone City lasted three days and three nights.
Before the festivities ended, Wang Quan received a message from the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court:
The Dao Court sent a considerable amount of information, including not only text but also images from memories.
He said goodbye to Ruo Jinghong and the others, found somewhere quiet, and examined the information:
[The abnormalities appearing in the Third-Layer and Fourth-Layer Worlds were not created by these worlds themselves, but by other living beings.] [The Drowning Dao Lower Court you saw corresponding to the Fourth Layer was established by an organization called [Madmen].] [This organization has extraordinary origins and is connected to an immortal.] [They descended from the heavens, fighting their way down from the Thirty-Second-Layer World, establishing safe zones and linking them together, much as we link the Underworld and the various worlds.] [Under normal circumstances, do not clash with them. If a clash occurs, it is best to kill them to silence them, grind their bones, and scatter their ashes.]
Madmen?
An immortal?
Wang Quan was stunned.
He had always thought they were very, very far away from him.
Yet he had never expected to encounter an immortal's organization while he was still only a Golden Core Cultivator.
"An immortal founded an organization? Then cleared away evil and established safe zones?"
"Why are they so kindhearted?"
"Why didn't they do this before? Why only now? Does this have something to do with the era cataclysm?"
Wang Quan was a little bewildered.
After a moment, he set his thoughts aside and looked through the memories the Dao Court had sent.
The memories belonged to a Primordial Spirit Cultivator, and the images showed precisely that strange Drowning Dao Lower Court safe zone in the Fourth-Layer World.
At the beginning of the memories,