Wu Chang gave a slight nod at those words, then said, "I need a story. In exchange, I will tell you another story."
"A story?"
At first, the two Treading-Void Split Souls did not quite understand, but after recalling what Wu Chang had said earlier, they understood what kind of story he wished to hear.
The two Treading-Void Split Souls exchanged a glance. Then one of them rose first and said, "This junior dares to volunteer as the first speaker."
"Good. Speak."
"Yes."
This Treading-Void Split Soul gathered his thoughts slightly before saying, "This story begins two thousand years ago. Back then, the vast and boundless Heavenly Sea Domain beyond the Void Realm was still controlled by a realm-lord force known as Great Awakening Temple..."
Over the next three hours, this Treading-Void Split Soul recounted everything he knew of the Heavenly Sea Domain's path of evolution over the past two thousand years, following the thread of time from beginning to end.
More than two thousand years ago, the entire Heavenly Sea Domain had still been under Great Awakening Temple's control.
This Buddhist realm-lord force had presided over the Heavenly Sea for three thousand years by then. The structure and distribution of powers within the Heavenly Sea were vastly different from what they were now.
In that era, Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion had only just completed its ascent from a real domain. It was an inconspicuous second-rate realm gate, without even a single True Lord in its ranks.
Had the established order of the Heavenly Sea Domain not undergone a drastic upheaval, with the various Dominion Realm Gates continuing to monopolize all important resources, then even after another three thousand years, Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion would likely have had no chance of advancing into a first-rate realm gate.
Yet the shifting winds and