Chapter 1658: Secrets from the Past

"Origin Reversion War?"

When Heavenly Emperor Jiang uttered those words, the experts who understood what they implied began to shake, their hearts filling with terror.

Li Luo couldn't help but fall into a momentary trance as well. This was the most disastrous event that had occurred since ancient times.

Every natural disaster seemed pitifully weak when compared to it. He understood that once the Origin Reversion War started, the divine continents would enter dire times. If they were unable to tide over this tribulation, all of the divine continents would be overrun by the Shadow World. All life as he knew it would merely become sources of negative emotions to breed even more Others.

Perhaps the Others would then keep the living like livestock in captivity, miring them in endless pain, suffering, and all sorts of negative emotions. The mere thought of it left one in despair.

For many, the Origin Reversion War seemed like a faraway myth. Although the divine continents would occasionally experience Other Disasters, those were within their control.

The Heavenly Emperors sitting in the Nobles' Battlefield guarded strategic locations around the clock, having not returned to their families and tribes for hundreds of years, all for the sake of preventing the Grand Devil Kings from entering the world. Clearly, this balance was about to be broken.

𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

When the Path Between Worlds opened up, the Shadow World's Other Dominions and Devil Kings would no longer have to descend through irregular spatial rifts with great difficulty—they would be able to stroll into the divine continents openly. This was a true catastrophe.

The Origin Reversion War, an event that everyone had assumed was far away, had quietly arrived, overflowing with murderous intent. Everything they knew was about to change.

Li Luo's expression had turned solemn as he understood that the divine continents would soon be embroiled in the fires of war. The peace he had enjoyed until now would soon be far away.

"Heavenly Emperor Yin, is the Origin Reversion Institute aiming to destroy the ten divine continents?" Heavenly Emperor Jiang asked furiously.

He knew that this day would come eventually, but clearly it was sooner than expected. The divine continents had yet to complete their preparations.

The Shadow World, on the other hand, had seventy-two Greater Dominions. This meant that they had seventy-two Heavenly Emperors, an overbearing force that completely outmatched the divine continents. The fact that the divine continents' Heavenly Emperors had chosen to quietly guard their territories was proof of this mismatch.

They didn't have the strength to attack, so their only choice was to defend for as long as they could to buy more time.

They had hoped that the divine continents would produce more Heavenly Emperors... and even Divine Fruit Heavenly Emperors. Each one would play a critical role in the Origin Reversion War as they strengthened the side of the living.

Heavenly Emperor Yin's blazing white eyes turned towards the black coffin with a look of absolute piety and fanaticism.

"Heavenly Emperor Jiang, you don't understand that your path only leads to destruction. If the Sacred Void Resonance Sect was unable to achieve victory, what makes you think the Academic Federation can? You don't have the strength to change the situation. However, the Origin Reversion Institute's path is attainable. No matter what sort of price we have to pay. In this world, only one person has the right to put an end to this chaos. This man... is my Sect Master!"

Heavenly Emperor Jiang glared at the black coffin as he glumly said, "So the coffin contains the Legendary Sect Master of the Sacred Void Resonance Sect?"

Before Heavenly Emperor Yin could reply, the Pill Saint's icy voice rang out in interruption.

"No, whatever is inside the coffin is not the Sect Master."

Heavenly Emperor Jiang, Heavenly Emperor Zhang, and Li Jingzhe turned towards the Pill Saint. If that wasn't the Legendary Sect Master, then who could it be?

"Yin Qingkun, your mind has been eroded, and you have been corrupted. The valiant warrior who once slaughtered countless Grand Devil Kings is long dead, and you're just a soulless puppet, a puppet who has been deceived by the extinction resonance.

"Do you think that the pure and aloof Sect Master would allow himself to live in some coffin in such a form? The thing inside the coffin is merely the corrupted extinction resonance of the Sect Master. Yin Qingkun, wake up. The extinction resonance betrayed the Sect Master and caused the Sacred Void Resonance Sect to vanish from this world. That is not the Sect Master."

The Pill Saint's merciless words echoed across the heavens and the earth. The secrets that had just been revealed caused even Heavenly Emperor Jiang, a Divine Fruit bearer, to feel a storm brewing within his heart.

Li Jingzhe and Heavenly Emperor Zhang's expressions were heavy. Almost all information regarding the Sacred Void Resonance Sect had been lost in the tides of time, and not even Heavenly Emperors were able to discover more.

This was the first time that the reason for the Sacred Void Resonance Sect's fall had been revealed. The one who had made the revelation was none other than the Pill Saint, someone who was alive at the time; perhaps she was the only one who knew what had truly happened.

Li Luo was shocked as well. He had personally experienced the power of the extinction resonance. Just a single ray of its energy was capable of giving him an endless headache. If not for Jiang Qing'e's assistance, his fifth resonant palace might have been completely eroded by now.

Most importantly, the Pill Saint's words contained a very important piece of information.

It had been corrupted! How had the unmatched extinction resonance been corrupted? And by what?

The bronze mask representing Heavenly Emperor Yin quietly floated in the sky. The white flames dancing within its eye sockets seemed a lot less lively than before. Everything had turned silent.

A moment later, Heavenly Emperor Jiang cupped his hands respectfully towards the Pill Saint as he asked, "Dare I ask just what sort of object was able to corrupt the Sacred Void Resonance Sect Master's extinction resonance?"

The Pill Saint's eyes turned dim.

"Only one thing is capable of that. It was the object that was born in the deepest depths of the Shadow World... The Origin of Absolute Corruption. That is the source of all chaos. The Sect Master had led the entire Sacred Void Resonance Sect into the Shadow World, destroying countless Other Dominions and slaughtering numerous Grand Devil Kings. This included several Divine Fruit Grand Devil Kings. In the end, he managed to arrive at the depths of the Shadow World, where he met the Origin of Absolute Corruption."

The voice of the Pill Saint was the only sound anyone could hear. The information she had revealed was so important that Heavenly Emperor Jiang's heartbeat started to speed up, his expression mortified and nervous.

The Origin of Absolute Corruption! That was the source of all Others!

Every single piece of information shared here was capable of sending shockwaves through the Heavenly Emperor circles in the divine continents. Furthermore, this was probably the biggest secret of them all.

"As expected, the Sacred Void Resonance Sect's Sect Master actually encountered the Origin of Absolute Corruption," Heavenly Emperor Jiang mumbled to himself.

The two most terrifying existences of that era had come to a head at the end of the Shadow World.

Heavenly Emperor Jiang couldn't help but ask, "What happened after that?"

This was the most important bit of information. Had the Legendary Sect Master exchanged blows with the Origin of Absolute Corruption? What had happened afterwards?

The Pill Saint shook her head.

"The end of the Shadow World is shrouded in terrifying corruption. It is the place where the most negative emotions in the world gather, and not even a Divine Fruit Heavenly Emperor can approach it. Therefore, no one was capable of following the Sect Master to the very end. As a result, no one knows what happened. I only know that the Sect Master eventually walked out and the war came to an end."

Li Luo's expression was stiff. Although the war had ended, the Sacred Void Resonance Sect's downfall had begun.