Xu Changxing nodded and continued, "Since that place was originally the domain of an Abyss Great Overlord, why did it later become a place where countless Demonic Beasts slaughtered one another?"
Kalen replied, "Because that ancient Great Overlord went mad.
He stained a stretch of Blood War Land with his own blood.
The blood of an Abyss Great Overlord drove countless Abyss Demons wild.
From then on, that place became a land of slaughter.
The demons who entered it were all fools who dreamed of evolving by devouring the Great Overlord's blood.
The blood of a Great Overlord who had gone mad would only drive them mad.
The price they paid for increasing their strength was abandoning their sanity entirely.
Even if fools like that evolved a hundred times, they could never become Abyss Overlords!"
Xu Changxing rubbed his chin. "Those Demonic Beasts didn't join the slaughter just because they were stupid, did they?
As far as I know, that Blood-Colored Land seems to have devoured Abyss Overlords too."
Kalen seemed not to have expected Xu Changxing to know about this. His enormous eyes flickered as he said:
"Outsider, it seems you know more about the Abyss than I imagined.
You're right. That Blood-Colored Land doesn't just devour ordinary Demonic Beasts.
Among the overlords who preceded me, several coveted that Great Overlord's blood and ventured into the Blood-Colored Land, fighting endlessly against other Demonic Beasts.
At first, they could still rely on their overwhelming strength to slaughter the other demons.
But that Blood-Colored Land is an ill-omened place.
After those fools absorbed its power, they gradually lost their sanity and became monsters who knew only slaughter.
In the end, the power they couldn't control burst them apart, leaving every last drop of their blood and all their power in that