Faced with Lin Jin's question, Ghost Pupil fell silent for another moment.
In the years since becoming a Moon Envoy, he had also kept collecting ancient books and fragmentary texts related to Dark Moon's history, trying to piece together the true purpose of the Dark Moon Organization's existence.
He slowly recounted everything he knew.
The Dark Moon Organization's predecessor had been called the "Eye of the Abyss." A thousand years ago, the Eye of the Abyss had been the first line of defense protecting the human world against invasion from the "Otherworld."
Back then, the human world had far more transcendents than it does now, and there were more Divine Domain-level Experts than the scant few today. There were even scattered ancient records stating that the Divine Domain Rank was not the end—above it lay a supreme realm.
Ancient Divine Domain-level Experts had joined forces to establish seals at abyssal rifts across the world, preventing otherworldly creatures from invading. The Eye of the Abyss had been founded by those guardians' descendants, who guarded the abyssal rifts generation after generation, watching for any unusual activity in the Otherworld.
At the time, members of the Eye of the Abyss had been regarded as the guardian deities of the human world.
But that situation had changed during an incident a thousand years ago.
An unprecedented Eerie tide had erupted in the ruins of the East Sea Abyss, and several Divine Domain Rank guardians had barely managed to suppress it together.
During that battle, one guardian had ventured deep into the core of the ruins and discovered a stone tablet covered in otherworldly writing.
The tablet had recorded the Otherworld's true name-the "Abyssal World."
And a fact that could overturn every guardian's beliefs.
Lin Jin frowned slightly.
"What fact?"
Ghost Pupil took a deep