They discovered that Soul-Suppressing Palace had not been the earliest group of cultivators to arrive here. The jade slips recorded that they had been swallowed into the belly of a Fusion Realm heavenly demon known as the "Dreamreturn Ant."
In the end, they had all been forcibly refined alive by that heavenly demon. Yet every time the "Dreamreturn Ant" had eaten its fill, it would fall into slumber.
Some cultivators who had not died immediately suffered even greater torment during the subsequent refining process. While the heavenly demon slept, some had endured being refined for decades, even centuries, leaving them worse off than dead.
Thus, they had left behind some jade slips and talismans. Most of the jade slips contained vicious, witchcraft-like curses aimed at the "Dreamreturn Ant."
Others had been left for those who came later. They had discovered that the "Dreamreturn Ant" did not refine things like jade slips, and they hoped that if someone could eventually escape alive, that person would carry news of them out.
Of course, these were merely helpless hopes placed by people on the verge of death.
The Soul-Suppressing Palace cultivators had been scared out of their wits. They had never imagined that the paradise beyond the mundane world they had entered was actually inside the body of a legendary heavenly demon.
In other words, was this heavenly demon currently asleep, or had some other abnormality occurred that allowed them to survive for the time being? Would they also be refined someday?
They hurriedly reported the matter to their sect.
In the end, this matter even alarmed the old sect master, who had long since stepped down and become the Grand Supreme Elder, a Void Refinement Realm cultivator.
At that time, Soul-Suppressing Palace also faced its greatest problem: that Grand Supreme Elder had