Chen Yao truly had not expected his act of impersonating an eerie being to turn out like this.
The local infiltrator was actually a being with no darkness inside him. Now that was interesting. I thought he was like the later guardian lineage, whose blood would turn dark deep within, but apparently not.
Chen Yao's thoughts raced as he recalled the original story in his mind and compared it with the current situation.
In the original story, Ning Chuan had joined the darkness and declared that darkness was eternal, and that his ancestors had also belonged to the darkness. Chen Yao had assumed Ning Chuan was a descendant of darkness evolvers, too. As it turned out, he was actually of remarkably pure stock.
Perhaps, for the sake of infiltration, his ancestors had never had children at all, instead creating descendants through other means.
Given the sheer scale of the darkness, this was entirely unnecessary. The number of Dark Immortal Kings alone would be enough to steamroll everything here. Even so-called Supreme Giants or Immortal Kings with Emperor Light could not withstand such an extreme numerical advantage, let alone the fact that the other side had genuine Quasi-Immortal Emperors. Rather than a mission or a grand scheme, infiltration seemed more like a pastime...
Was this an internal assessment on the darkness's side? Was it tied to promotion? Was it meant to temper the younger generation within their forces?
Chen Yao speculated about the situation on the darkness's side. It was the details Ning Chuan had revealed in his intense desire to survive that had prompted him to consider questions he had previously overlooked and never explored in depth.
*The vast majority of those subjected to darkness erosion became bloodthirsty and insane, as though possessed by demons, their minds no longer clear.