"He went into seclusion?" Zuo Qiu Shu asked.
"Yes. Otherwise, he wouldn't have established the Slaughter Domain later," Xuanyuan Xin said. "The Slaughter Evil Lord's achievement gave those who practiced the Ruthlessness Dao a tremendous boost. They discovered that someone had actually broken through the limit of the Ancient Realm. If someone else could do it, why couldn't they? In other words, the so-called fatal flaw of the Ruthlessness Dao was not an absolute dead end. For a time, more people in the Jianghu began practicing the Ruthlessness Dao. Unfortunately, after the Slaughter Evil Lord, no one managed to break through the Ancient Realm. Gradually, fewer people practiced the Ruthlessness Dao again. Some said the Slaughter Evil Lord had died from its backlash, though no one knew where he had died. His achievement had merely raised the realm at which the Ruthlessness Dao's fatal flaw struck; the ultimate outcome was still the same. But no matter what, the number of people in the Jianghu practicing the Ruthlessness Dao was still countless times greater than before the Slaughter Evil Lord appeared."
"He remained in seclusion until he reappeared three thousand years ago?" Huo Lian asked.
Xuanyuan Xin nodded. "That's right. After nearly six thousand years in seclusion, around three thousand years ago, the Slaughter Evil Lord appeared in the Jianghu again. This time, he shook the world with even more astonishing strength. He began openly recruiting people in the Jianghu who practiced the Ruthlessness Dao, promising to grant them his insights into its cultivation and help them resolve its fatal flaw."
"So the Slaughter Evil Lord's main purpose in spending those six thousand-odd years in seclusion was to resolve the Ruthlessness Dao's fatal flaw?" Zuo Qiu Shu asked.
"I wonder whether the Slaughter Evil Lord was actually affected by the Ruthlessness