After reading through the clue notes Dongfang Yingcai had compiled, Ling Shuang and Yun Xiwu exchanged a glance, each seeing a measure of worry in the other's eyes.
If Dongfang Yingcai's deduction was correct, then breaking the deadlock this time and helping Yang Lingrui complete the Soul-Severing Karma Cut would be far more difficult than they had previously estimated.
As disciples of major Central Region clans and direct disciples of the heads of their respective factions, they were naturally no strangers to the greatest man-made calamity in Azure Waves' history.
Those two Void-Stepping mighty cultivators had fought without restraint within the boundaries of Canglan Continent, turning heaven and earth upside down, blotting out the sun and moon, annihilating mountains and rivers, and plunging all living things into misery.
That battle had not only shattered vast tracts of Azure Waves land; the severed spirit veins and destroyed blessed grottoes, paradises, and Secret Realms were beyond counting, dealing an enormous blow to the immortal Dao inheritances of Canglan Continent.
It was precisely because of the aftermath of that great man-made calamity that Canglan Continent later began strictly dividing the Upper and Lower Realms.
Numerous Void-Stepping mighty cultivators of the Upper Realm had joined forces to lay down a grand Formation Array, sealing off the heavens. Only then had they prevented such a catastrophe from happening again.
Yet that battle had also grievously drained Canglan Continent's vitality. Who knew how many inherited arts and secret immortal treasures had vanished forever because of it, further worsening the already incomplete state of Daoist inheritances.
Had such a devastating calamity never occurred in Azure Waves' history, there would now be more Dao paths between heaven and earth for the myriad living beings who entered the Dao to choose from.
As the manifestation of a realm's immortal