The bone-chilling mist spread across the reincarnation platform.
From within the mist, a giant fox head, sinister and enigmatic, appeared, staring coldly at Li Muyang on the reincarnation platform.
Behind Li Muyang, not far away, lay a mummified corpse, motionless and still sitting in its place.
At this moment, Li Muyang felt numb.
The corpse that had just approached him to talk was not the real Fox Immortal?
What the hell!
The true Fox Immortal was making its appearance only now? And in such a bizarre manner?!
Just the gaze alone inflicted Li Muyang with a soul-chilling terror and a sense of ominous dread.
The Fox Immortal before him carried the same sinister and terrifying presence as the divine spirit from the Peaceful Realms Li had encountered in the final level of ‘Lethal Wild Grass’.
Even merely a stare could instill fear in the living.
Not to mention, the ‘Yin Life Book’ from back then was now suspended above the fox’s head.
Instinctively, Li Muyang took two steps back, staring in horror at the colossal Fox Immortal before him.
The vast disparity in their powers, along with that high and terrifying aura of suppression, rendered him speechless for a while.
As Li Muyang remained silent, the platform was completely enveloped in deathly stillness.
Until the rustling sound of flipping pages began, the ‘Yin Life Book’ above the Fox Immortal’s head stirred on its own and started flipping pages.
Eventually, the rapidly turning pages halted on one specific page.
From that aged, yellowing page, a cold, sinister light shone down on Li Muyang.
It was then that the mysterious and terrifying Fox Immortal slowly spoke.
“Interesting…”
The Fox Immortal regarded Li Muyang indifferently and said, “The male baby sent out those years ago has been possessed and reborn by the ancient Evil Vein.”
On the reincarnation platform, Li Muyang could clearly feel the icy gaze scanning over him.
This feeling of being watched, like thorns in his back, made him frown.
After a long silence, Li Muyang finally spoke.
“Are you the mysterious Fox Immortal? The one who deals with mortals?”
Li Muyang, confused, looked at the divine spirit from the Peaceful Realms before him and asked, “Aren’t you a spirit of the Peaceful Realms? Why would you help mortals?”
This was Li Muyang’s biggest question after knowing the identity of the Fox Immortal.
The Peaceful Realms and the Mortal World were sworn enemies, fighting cataclysmically ten thousand years ago; theoretically, both sides should harbor deep-seated hatred.
As a spirit of the Peaceful Realms, who survived the dark catastrophe, the Fox Immortal should only harbor hatred for mortal beings.
Why then would it help mortals?
This was extremely suspicious.
However, the Fox Immortal did not answer Li Muyang’s question.
It simply stared coldly at Li Muyang and said, “Fairy Qinghe, who you raised and nurtured into a divinity, once had some dealings with me, and I still owe her a favor.”
“Thus, I shall not kill you. I will spare your life to repay the favor I owe to Fairy Qinghe.”
The Fox Immortal spoke indifferently, thereby sparing Jiang Xiaoyu’s life.
Yet this statement only added to the confusion.
Li Muyang widened his eyes in astonishment: “You had dealings with Zhi Wei? You owe Zhi Wei a favor? Aren’t you a spirit of the Peaceful Realms!”
Spirits of the Peaceful Realms should be relentless enemies of mortal beings, shouldn’t they…
The Fox Immortal seemed to detect his confusion and smirked coldly: “Do you think the spirits of the Peaceful Realms should all be mad and cruel, conspiring against the Human Realm and sworn enemies of mortal beings?”
“Jiang Xiaoyu, you underestimate me, and you underestimate the Netherworld too.”
“Although the Peaceful Realms perished, not all souls from the Netherworld were like the Earth Spirit King, who willingly degraded themselves.”
“During that calamity, there were numerous spirits from the Netherworld who calmly accepted their fate and silently watched the destruction of the Peaceful Realms, never once striking against the Human World.”
“We, the spirits of the Netherworld who have personally experienced the agony of worldly annihilation and land collapse, how could we easily impose such suffering on the innocent beings of the Human Realm?”
“Not all spirits from the Peaceful Realms willingly degraded themselves like the Earth Spirit King.”
“Had all the divine beings of the Netherworld participated in that great war, ten thousand years ago, your Mortal World would not have won so easily.”
The Frosty Fairy said indifferently, then turned and walked away into the depths of the fog.
The massive, mountainous terror was faintly visible in the fog, already as vast as the mountain ranges that span between heaven and earth.
Li Muyang unconsciously followed, for at the edge of the swirling Reincarnation Platform in the fog, lotuses bloomed one after another.
These blooming lotuses were neatly arranged, forming a pathway in the void, guiding Li Muyang’s direction.
Li Muyang stepped onto the Lotus Road, following the Frosty Fairy who had turned and left.
The massive figure of the Frosty Fairy, intermittently visible in the fog.
Its cold voice indifferently recounted the past events.
Hearing this, Li Muyang felt a slight shock in his heart.
“The great war back then, the Mortal World won so easily?”
The few understated sentences from the Frosty Fairy, yet they revealed profoundly disturbing information.
Not all the divine spirits of the Peaceful Realms had joined the battle, yet the Mortal World won so easily?
“If the Mortal World won so easily, why then did the Heavenly Person Five Decays occur, and the deities vanished? Even the Cultivators’ lineages and doctrines were interrupted for many years!”
Li Muyang found it hard to believe, as this differed from the information he had previously received.
The information he had encountered before indicated that the victory ten thousand years ago was a Pyrrhic victory for the Human World; there were no true winners on either side.
The Peaceful Realms indeed were devastated, but the Human World was nearly shattered too, and all deities from ancient times died or disappeared, suffering the Heavenly Person Five Decays.
If what the Frosty Fairy said was true, that the Mortal World had won so easily ten thousand years ago, then why did all the deities still perish?
Li Muyang was baffled.
In the mist, the Frosty Fairy walked slowly, scoffing coldly: “Heavenly Person Five Decays, deities vanished?”
“Are you sure?”
The Frosty Fairy’s chilly questioning made Li Muyang’s expression freeze abruptly.
“This…”
Though the disappearance of deities is a consensus in the Cultivation World, now it seems they have not truly vanished.
Not to mention special Magical Treasures like the World Beyond Ark, at least the Extreme Night God from ancient times is still alive.
Moreover, legends in the Cultivation World suggest that within the Heavenly Palace beyond the Nine Heavens, many ancient divine beings still exist.
The arrival of the Extreme Night God clearly validates that this legend isn’t baseless.
In the cosmic sea above this planet, perhaps there truly is an Ancient Heavenly Palace where many deities lie dormant…
Li Muyang frowned and fell silent for a while, then slowly said: “Please enlighten me, what exactly happened during that great calamity ten thousand years ago?”
“Why has this world become what it is now?”
Li Muyang earnestly inquired.
This was the only actual participant he had encountered so far with whom he could communicate.
Although Chou Yuyan had also lived through the Dark Catastrophe, Li Muyang didn’t think this madwoman could communicate effectively.
However, after Li Muyang earnestly inquired, the Frosty Fairy in the mist just glanced at him coldly and said,
“I despise the Evil Vein Clan.”
