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    Bai Yu seemed to be just beginning her exnation, but Ethan was already horrified by the information he received.


    Among the many things he had just heard, the one that shocked him the most was the death of the deities who had entered the ce.


    Ethan didn''t know what kind of beings these deities were, but he was certain they were on an unimaginable levelpared to his current self.


    Even Bai Yu, who was clearly much stronger than the beings leading the mortal ne, seemed not to be on par with these deities.


    The first time Ethan had heard of deities, he imagined immortal and indestructible gods who governed thews of nature.


    But now he was learning that half of these gods had been eliminated, and the others, as far as he understood, had fled from that dimension and then sealed it.


    Did this not imply that whatever was beyond, in that dimension, was much stronger than the so-called gods above the two heavens?


    What level of existence must they be?


    Ethan had always aimed to cultivate to the peak of cultivation, to be the strongest of all, so that no one could hurt him or those he cared about.


    He wanted to be no one''s pawn and have control over his own destiny, and so on.


    Reaching the level of these deities seemed like a good goal, even though he had no idea if he would ever get there.


    But now knowing that even at that level one was not entirely safe made him feel that the path he had chosen had be even longer and perhaps more impossible.


    He knew that his goal had never beenpletely feasible in the first ce, but it was better to hope for something than nothing, and end up losing the will to move forward.


    Having spent a lot of time alone in his past world, he had always tried to persevere and move forward even when life struck him from all sides.


    He didn''t want to give up because he knew that once he did, he would only fall deeper and perhaps never be able to resurface.


    Now he was beginning to lose hope once again upon hearing this.


    The onlyfort he had was that he had some tools helping him to progress in this new world, and perhaps these would elevate him to a sufficiently high level in the future.


    As Ethan got lost in contemtion of the various consequences of what Bai Yu had said, thetter, not paying much attention to Ethan''s inner turmoil, waited a few seconds before continuing to exin what seemed to be the origins of demonic Qi.


    "This new energy initially did not seem particrly harmful, but it soon became clear that this was not the case.


    ording to our knowledge of the past, as soon as the surviving gods discovered that this energy had leaked, they mobilized a great force to track it down and eliminate every trace of it.


    This action might seem a bit exaggerated, but the damage this energy caused was severe enough to justify the means used.


    This energy spread very rapidly, affecting many parts of the celestial ne.


    All living beings in these areas gradually lost their rationality, bing creatures driven entirely by their instincts.


    If it had been only this, then it would not have been a great problem to eliminate all traces of this energy, but it was not so.


    You might not know this, but the celestial ne is many timesrger than the immortal ne, so vast that it was difficult to scour the entire ne in a short time.


    Even with the intervention of all the remaining gods, it still took several decades to explore itpletely, and during this period, the effects of this corruptive energy on the celestial ne worsened.


    After several years, in the areas affected by this corruptive energy, a new race began to emerge.


    The Demon Race.


    These beings, although driven by their desires for destruction and chaos, retained their own consciousness and did notpletely surrender to their instincts.


    The reason why dealing with beings corrupted by this energy was rtively simple was that their consciousness seemed to be eroded over time, turning them into brainless beasts, making them easy to eliminate without suffering too much damage.


    But it was different for enemies who could maintain their rationality.


    Over time, they managed to think and evolve their consciousness and, within a few years,


    the celestial ne found itself having to manage beings capable of learning the customs andnguages ??of other races,


    of camouging themselves among them and of causing all kinds of atrocities and chaos."


    Ethan, having no idea what the celestial ne was like, could only vaguely imagine how damaging this could be.


    "This gradually affected all races, ultimately leading to a great war that damaged much of the celestial ne, a war of proportions never seen before, involving almost all the races inhabiting the celestial ne.


    This warsted for centuries, and entire races werepletely wiped out.


    This is also considered the dark age of the celestial ne.


    In the end, a way was found to detect this energy with reasonable precision, and with the joint action of the gods and all the other apex beings of each race,


    they managed to start containing this ever-growing gue and eliminate it gradually.


    This cleansing actionsted for some time, but eventually, almost all the ces infected by this energy were eradicated, and the demon race was slowly eliminated as well, or at least, that was what was believed," she said, pausing.


    Ethan waited for her to continue, while he thought about something:


    ''From what she said, demons had spread in the celestial ne.


    Why did they not consider the possibility that they could also infiltrate the mortal ne?''


    Ethan still knew little about this world, but he had done his fair share of research on its history, cultivation, and customs, and he could say that there had never been an event of this kind in the previous centuries of history he had read.


    He had read mostly about all the significant events, leaving out only the less important ones.


    He had never found any record of a race resembling demons.


    As if to answer his question, Bai Yu continued.


    "You see, all these events happened more than a million years ago, long before I was born, and in all this time, no trace of this energy has ever been seen again.


    Therefore, the fact that this energy appeared in the mortal ne is unexpected.


    You see, the bridge connecting the mortal ne to the celestial ne is practically one-way.


    Once a person manages to cross it sessfully, there is almost no chance of them returning.


    The same applies to those born in the celestial ne.


    They too have no way to descend to the mortal ne.


    This applies to both living beings and anything else.


    Therefore, it was never considered that demonic energy could spread to the mortal ne because the guardian of this ne would not have allowed it or at least would have noticed if such a thing had happened," she said with a frown.


    At this, a question arose in Ethan''s mind.


    "If it is true that it is impossible for something to descend to the mortal ne, then how did the Amphora of the Seven Sages end up here?" he asked, finding the situation strange.


    From what he had been told, the amphora and its owner had already ascended to the celestial ne.


    So, there should be no way for them to return.


    The amphora was clearly a powerful artifact, most likely not created in the mortal ne. So how did such an artifact appear here?


    Now that he thought about it, Bai Yu had said that the previous owner of the artifact had already taken it when she had met him.


    Could it be that he had obtained the artifact in the first ce not in the celestial ne but here, in the mortal ne?


    Perhaps the Amphora of the Seven Sages has the power to travel between the two nes?


    "I''m not sure.


    The Amphora of the Seven Sages is one of the oldest artifacts in history, almost dating back to the primordial era, an era about which very little is known.


    In that era, there were many powerful beings who could rival the current gods governing the celestial ne, and perhaps even surpass them.


    This artifact was forged by some of those beings, so it is considered very powerful and everyone desires it.


    The chaos it created upon reappearing after so much time is proof of that.


    The only person who knows more than any of us is certainly Yīng Hua,


    but as I told you, she has never said much about herself or how she found this artifact,


    which had long been considered lost."


    Ethan understood and did not ask further about the matter.


    Now the main issue was the demon race.


    Ethan did not know if this race had already appeared here as well, but just the presence of demonic energy was a cause for rm.


    Ethan had no idea how long this energy had been present in the mortal ne, but it could not have been for long, otherwise, he would have already seen its consequences.


    Just these individuals who went around and managed to use it withoutpletely going mad was proof that this energy was just starting to spread, at least in the Long Empire.


    Ethan had no idea about the rest of the continent, as he had never been outside the Phoenix Kingdom in the two years he had been in this world.


    But he would certainly have heard if this energy had already appeared elsewhere; after all, it is too destructive to be ignored for so long.


    This is what Ethan thought, and Bai Yu had a simr supposition.


    But in a pce hundreds of miles away from the Phoenix Sect, Prince Jian, who had confronted his father about the appearance of this strange creature, seemed to have heard somethingpletely different.


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