Chapter 1202

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

Baili Hong set the wine jar on his knee, then said seriously: "The first matter naturally concerns the Eternal Night Ruins.

After all, there are only a few decades left until it opens, so it's imminent.

The second matter: there's an Ancient Clan on the Endless Star Domain side that's been restless lately.

Exactly what's going on, Eldest Senior Brother doesn't know either.

All we know is that for nearly a hundred years, they've been stirring up trouble all over the Endless Star Domain, even deliberately targeting our Floating World Four Domains.

Second Senior Sister has stayed in the Endless Star Domain for so many years; she knows that side better than anyone. This time she's back, most likely to explain things to us in person."

Xu Zhangqing's brow furrowed slightly.

He had heard a little about the Ancient Clan of the Endless Star Domain.

Those worthy of being called an "Ancient Clan" in a place like the Endless Star Domain were all colossal existences with inheritances of at least ten thousand years.

Their foundations were far beyond what ordinary sects and powers could compare to.

If such a clan deliberately targeted the Floating World Four Domains, whatever lay behind it was certainly not simple.

But Xu Zhangqing reconsidered and felt something was off: "With Master presiding over the Floating World Four Domains, who would dare actively seek death?"

"You've hit the nail on the head."

The mirth on Baili Hong's face faded somewhat: "Lao Jiu, you still understand Master too little."

Master in the Floating World Four Domains, or even the entire Zhutian Wan Jie, is indeed a sovereign-level existence.

But precisely because he is too transcendent, he cannot easily take action."

Xu Zhangqing made an "oh" sound, his face showing curiosity.

Baili Hong grew serious: "Once cultivation reaches Master's level, every move, every thought, will incur karma.

Not ordinary karma, but great karma capable of disturbing the balance of the entire Zhutian Wan Jie.

Today, if he personally acted for an Ancient Clan, then tomorrow this karma would trace back up the River of Time, dragging out more things impossible to clean up.

Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, Master will not act.

This is also one reason why the Beidou Xianfu has the Nine Extremes Heavenly King, Eldest Senior Brother, me, and you all.

Put plainly, we are all people who block karma for Master."

Of course, the so-called "blocking" also means solving troubles.

Hearing this, Xu Zhangqing suddenly saw a vague thought in his heart become clear.

He thought of the Chaos Sea.

Back then, a distorted red light suddenly appeared.

We, including Eldest Senior Brother, didn't have time to act.

In an instant, it was directly erased by Master through defying-heaven means.

Back then, Eldest Senior Brother mentioned that this red light could corrupt karma.

Logically, an existence like Master shouldn't act casually; now hearing Baili Hong say this, he finally understood.

It wasn't that he didn't want to act, but the cost of acting once was so great that even the lofty Dao Sovereigns would have to think twice.

That red light corrupted karma and twisted the timeline, already touching the Dao Sovereigns' bottom line, so they spared no cost to erase it.

But to Xu Zhangqing, karma was something he didn't care about.

His Yuan Dao had been tempered for thirteen hundred years in the gaps of time; Creation, Order, and Termination formed a closed loop of their own, completely free of karma.

Equivalent to jumping outside the Three Realms, not within the Five Elements.

The karma that transcendent existences feared like tigers simply did not exist for him.

Thinking this, Xu Zhangqing suddenly understood why Master paid special attention to him, a Disciple from the Spirit Farmer background.

Not only because of the Creation Dao inheritance, but because his Dao could just do things others dared not or could not do.

Just like the wager in the Chaos Sea.

No one dared act lightly; the Chaos Monarch didn't dare, and Zhen Yuanzi didn't dare.

Seeing Xu Zhangqing silent, Baili Hong became interested: "Fine, the Ancient Clan matter will be explained in detail when Second Senior Sister arrives. As for the Eternal Night Ruins, how much do you know?"

Xu Zhangqing recovered from his shock and spoke truthfully: "I only know that every time the Eternal Night Ruins open, they appear at the Qinghua Flowing Radiance Moment.

But coincidentally, the Qingdi Garden, which ranks first among Wood Spiritual Roots, also opens at this time node, and the timing completely clashes."

"The Qingdi Garden is far inferior to the Eternal Night Ruins."

Baili Hong waved his hand, his tone carrying a hint of disdain, but more so his fear of the Eternal Night Ruins. He picked up the wine jar again and took a swig, then said in a deep voice: "Lao Jiu, let me tell you clearly what kind of place the Eternal Night Ruins really is.

After hearing, you'll understand why Second Senior Sister rushed back from the Endless Star Domain specifically, and why the Demon God must enter to break through to the Patriarch level."

Once you've heard it, you'll understand why Second Senior Sister made a special trip back from the Endless Star Domain, and you'll also understand why the Demon God must enter in order to break through to the Primordial Ancestor realm.

Baili Hong continued: "The Eternal Night Ruins is a land of dead silence, not ordinary dead silence, but dead silence at the level of laws.

There is no concept of time there, so one cannot feel the flow of time.

You feel you've stayed inside for ten thousand years, but coming out it might only be three days.

You feel only an incense stick has passed, but coming out a hundred years might have passed.

No time, no direction.

No sunrise or sunset, no star reference."

No sunrise sunset, no Star Reference.

Even divine sense would be constantly devoured by the darkness of the Eternal Night Ruins, unable to probe outward.

More critically, any living thing staying inside would be in a state of half dead, half alive.

Your flesh body still lives, but your laws will be eroded bit by bit by the Eternal Night Ruins; given enough time, even your self-consciousness will blur.

Xu Zhangqing asked thoughtfully: "Isn't this the Shi Jian Jian Xi?"

Baili Hong shook his head, his expression quite serious as he said: "Similar, but not the same."

Inside there is no spiritual energy, no laws, and even no resources for your cultivation.

No one knows what ancient things truly exist inside the Eternal Night Ruins.

In the recorded history of the Floating World Four Domains, the Eternal Night Ruins have opened several times; each time someone entered, but fewer than one in ten came out alive.

Of those who came out, some went insane, some had their cultivation crippled, each stranger than the last.

Some say they saw ancient architecture ruins inside the Eternal Night Ruins older than the Zhutian Wan Jie.

Others say they encountered existences inside whose names do not exist in any classic.

Some even speculate that the Eternal Night Ruins is not a space at all, but rather the Ti Nei of some dead 'thing.'

"The Ti Nei of some dead thing?"

Xu Zhangqing raised an eyebrow: "Like Gui Xu?"

"Not the same."

Baili Hong shook his head and said: "Gui Xu is alive, and also dead."

Living dead, dead living.

The Eternal Night Ruins, however, is complete dead silence.

No life force is nurtured, no law operation occurs.

Even the concept of death has been frozen.

However, this place has one characteristic.

The Eternal Night Ruins preserves some things that should not exist in the mortal world, such as cultivation methods lost since the Ancient Period, such as spiritual treasures long vanished, such as ancient existences never recorded in any classic.

And the Demon God must find a thing called 'Ancestral Spirit Source' inside the Eternal Night Ruins in order to break through to the Ancestor.

Without the Ancestral Spirit Source, the Demon God's bloodline can never return to its origin, and his realm will forever be stuck at Demon God Perfection.

So every time the Eternal Night Ruins opens, Demon Gods from the Zhutian Wan Jie swarm here.

That is to say, after entering, your biggest opponent, besides some unknown things inside the Eternal Night Ruins, is this group of top Demon Gods willing to die for the sake of breaking through to the Ancestor!