As Han Li got busy helping Hua Yu achieve a Power Born level physique awaiting Li Shuanwei's return, in another place in Sacred Lust, something else was happening.
It was atop a small hill. Surroundings were a sight of their own, with dead mortals of all ages littering the area. Women, men, kids, and the elderly of all skin colors. Their gory bodies, which could have once been beautiful things, were now just bones. Nothing more, nothing less.
In contrast, the hill in the middle was a pristine grassy place. No blood, nothing. On top of it was a young man with pale grey eyes, violet nails, white and old material robes, and a silent and calm aura. He tsked through his teeth and spat out some bloody flesh.
"Evil is such an easy thing to be addicted to. But such afflictions are for weak men. Murder, rape, plunder, all of those should be ways to move forward in the path of cultivation, not to be a thing that holds you back." The spirit inside his spoke, her usual flowery voice filled with the tone of a sage who had seen it all.
Yang Wei coldly shook his head. "Killing is the one way to achieve whatever I want. If there were no others in this world, if I could kill anyone at my wish, cultivation would have been so easy. All resources would be mine. If I want a Transcendent Orb, I could have had it so easily. Killing is the way."
The woman snorted in disdain.
She knew what was going to happen now, but she had no way of stopping it; her words would only be heard by deaf ears. She turned silent as Yang Wei took out a flower with a pristine white color from his pocket. It looked like a palm-sized lotus, with dew still evidently trickling from it.
Yang Wei had won three of the Trials and had lost in the fourth Trial; he had been thrown into a verbal debate against a Power Born Monk; had he won, he could have moved to the fifth Trial and gained a truly disbelieving treasure, but he had failed. Even though she herself had helped Yang Wei debate against the words of the Monk, who was called Hen Shin, that man was even wiser than herself.
No wonder Yang Wei had grown even more derisive of her. And more than that, on one of his three Trials, he had won something heinous. The flower in his hand.
It was a Magical Resource that could help the user ask any questions to anyone under the Transcendence Stage of cultivation, and they would have to answer with 100% truth. Any personal question could be asked, and they would end up answering as if it were normal. It was a Life Dao Magical Resource.
Of course, it would only last for an hour.
If she was in her prime, it wouldn't have worked on her, but now, it would easily work on her.
Even though it was not the best of his three rewards, it was the bane of her existence. Even though she and Yang Wei were a team, they had boundaries. He didn't know everything about her. Nobody in this whole world did. Her tone was icy, "If you used it, our cooperation would surely be affected. Why don't you wait till I reveal it to you on my own?
Why don't you try to crack me little by little instead? Wouldn't that be more fun for you? Conquering me, that is."
"Heh." With a derisive chuckle, Yang Wei popped the flower into his mouth.
A profound sigh of coldness was released from the Spirit.
"Ask away, what do you wish to know?" She asked, quickly changing her mask to that of indifference.
Yang Wei calmly questioned, his eyes sharp and hollow. "What are you?"
She tried not to speak, but she ended up speaking regardless, "I am a Defier of the Heavens." She immediately knew that all her future plans of slowly retaking her influences were all down the drain. Gaining back control over Yang Wei was also out of the question.
"Defier of the Heavens?" Yang Wei corked his eyebrows. "What is that?"
"The ones who walk the true path of cultivation instead of the Path of the Dao Tree."
"Path of the Dao Tree?"
"Beast Kings have no intelligence, but from the Beast Emperor stage, they are no longer any inferior to the Humans. They are strong."
Yang Wei asked, frowning, "If they were so strong in the past, why are humans in supremacy now? Why are they so weak to the point there is not a single Beast Emperor in the whole world, whereas we have 4 Transcendent Humans in Sacred Lust Continent alone?"
"Hehehe," Her flowery laughter was calm and cold. "The Dao Tree's embers. The tree was burned and slowly destroyed by burning, but its Dao hadn't vanished. For the first time in history, one of the Dao's, an ephemeral ember, a Spark of the Dao, entered a Human Being."
Yang Wei was alarmed.
"The Spark gave birth to a void inside their bodies. The Spark represented one of the Daos; now, the Humans could cultivate on their own. They had weak bodies, to the point they were just extremely pathetic in that department compared to the beasts.
"But they had Magical Powers of creation. Creating fire from thin air, water from thin air, and so on and so forth. Slowly, in hiding, they grew stronger. The Heavens itself seemed to be helping them; on a day, a Demi-Sacred was born amidst them."
Yang Wei took a deep breath.
"Beasts had their bodies and Beast Cores to make them stronger. Humans had their Dao Souls and Magic Powers. A war began. It was a huge war of supremacy that ended in devastation. But it was then that the goals of the Sacred Demons were revealed.
"When the Beast Daemons and Demi Sacred cultivator ended up falling in love instead of ending the world in their wrath. When they had their first child—The ancestor of today's humankind was born.
"Today's humans. A creature who has Transformation Sparks, the power of the Beasts, and Magic Powers, the power of the Heavens. It was the goal of the Dao Tree and the Seven Demons."
"Why?"
"Of course, to create a creature who wields all the 7 Great Daos. Only a creature from the Higher Worlds can do that since their birth was done with the help of the Everlasting Dao Trees in the Everlasting Worlds, and today, in this whole world of the Seven Continents, only creatures from the higher world exist. The Seven Demons were all of this world. They couldn't do it.
But the chosen one can do it."
"To wield the power of the Dao of Origin." Yang Wei's hand trembled.
The Spirit took a deep breath. "The Seven Demons must have left behind ways for the people of this world to slowly regain the power that the Sacreds had had by themselves. There should already be seven inheritors out there, each of them on their way to attaining one of the Seven Great Daos. In this world that hadn't seen a Sacreed in the last few Eras, it should see seven of them this time.
"Then, one of them would inherit all of the Powers of the Dao Tree as a whole after defeating the rest and become a Dao Lord who would make this World ascend into a True Everlasting World. The Third Everlasting World in the whole universe."
"Inheritors?!" Yang Wei felt his heart drop. Then, he calmed down a bit. "Even all that you have mentioned doesn't really tell me the whole picture. You seem to be intentionally hiding something. You haven't told me who you are."
"Me?"
The woman smiled calmly.
"I am..." She smirked. "Sorry, 1 hour has passed, and I no longer have to tell you that."
Yang Wei felt his nerves bulge.
Yet, immediately, he decided to keep some of the words she had spoke of earlier etched in his mind: Defier of the Heavens, Path of the Dao Tree, Fire of Origin, The Dao of Origin and the Everlasting Worlds of Human and Beast. He had to analyze her words.
He also wondered how much of it was true.