Those creatures had come from untold tens of thousands of years ago. Now their hair hung disheveled, their eyes were sunken, and their bodies were skeletal, like vengeful ghosts.
These creatures had struggled with all their might to cross over here in pursuit of transcendence, yet now they stood on the brink of eternal silence, all but utterly dead.
"True Phoenixes, Heavenly Dragons, Qilin... quite a few pureblood creatures of the Ten Fiends' caliber." Jiang Zhu looked over them one by one and discovered many familiar creatures.
Their old bones lay limp on the ground as though broken. Motionless, they hung from the lotus leaves as if dead of old age.
They had all surpassed True Immortals and possessed boundlessly powerful strength. After all, the existence behind the Path of Reincarnation aimed to nurture beings who surpassed Immortal Kings. Even producing a single one would be an enormous gain.
Thus, the creatures here spanned an extremely broad range, from Quasi-Immortal Kings to Immortal Kings!
But however powerful they were, they were already near death, seemingly unable to return to life. They remained motionless in an indistinct state, no different from corpse-ghosts.
Beside the Secret Liquid Pool where the giant lotus took root lay loose earth, broken rubble, and enormous stones. It was difficult to tell what this place had once looked like.
Jiang Zhu walked around the giant lotus and actually discovered traces left by ancient people beside the pool. Barely discernible writing had been carved into a stone, its script belonging to an unknown epoch.
But the Great Dao was universal. The interwoven patterns of the writing actually conveyed information across eras and civilizations.
"One leaf... one epoch!" That was the information he read from it.
He raised his head and looked up at the giant lotus again-there were