"After arriving here, I've been through so much, witnessed so many unimaginable scenes, and finally understood that there really is reincarnation in this world. Everything truly has its cause and effect," the elder said to Chu Mo. "You've just come over from there, have you encountered anyone else?"

Chu Mo replied, "I saw two groups of people battling."

"Those people are descendants of sinners," the elder said.

"Descendants of sinners?" Chu Mo slightly frowned. "Are they the offspring of those who entered this place?"

The elder nodded, his eyes revealing a trace of vicissitudes. "This world is not just limited to the four realms of Heavenly Immortals and Spirit Beings. The universe is vast and filled with countless worlds. There are major worlds and minor worlds. This place imprisons criminals from all worlds. You may have already noticed that after coming here, not only is your magic gone, but your skin also turns ink-black. This layer of color is actually a seal that blocks all magic!"

"Ah?" Chu Mo looked down at his own pitch-black skin and twitched at the corner of his mouth, struggling to speak.

"But after people arrive here, they don't die immediately. The stronger the cultivator, the longer they can survive in this place. Hence, at some point, people started to reproduce here, and the population kept growing. But this place is too barren! Food and resources are extremely precious. To fight over these things, people kill each other. Here, there is no distinction between justice and evil, only... survival!"

Thinking of the girl who resembled a boy, Chu Mo felt a surge of melancholy.

"How did you come to this place, senior?" Chu Mo asked the elder.

The elder smiled. "I failed to become supreme."

"Ah?" Chu Mo couldn't help but exclaim, looking incredulously at the elder before him.

The amount of information contained in that statement... was simply enormous!

To fail in becoming supreme meant that this old man before him... had once been a powerful being who surpassed the Emperor Realm?

Although Chu Mo had seen emperors in the Illusionary God Realm and even had conflicts with the young emperor Zhuge Lang, this did not mean Chu Mo was on the same level as an emperor. In fact, if he were to truly face an emperor, Chu Mo would have no chance of survival!

Even if he were to use his perfect avatar, he would still be smashed to pieces with a slap!

It was unfathomable that the elder before him was actually a cultivator stronger than an emperor.

Seeing Chu Mo's astonished expression, the elder chuckled. "There's no path to becoming supreme. Back in the day, in order to reach the Supreme Realm, I tried too many things. Perhaps... some of those attempts were too outrageous, eventually provoking the suppression of the Heavenly Dao. It seems my crimes were not severe enough to warrant death, and I was sent straight here instead."

Outrageous attempts provoking heaven and people alike? Chu Mo glanced at the elder, his mind flashing to the Blood Demon Ancestor—weren't the Ancestor's trials also considered outrageous and offending both heaven and humanity?

The elder spoke lightly. "In those years, to attempt reaching the Supreme Realm, I tried almost everything. In the end, I even experimented on living people."

Chu Mo's mouth twitched violently, and he looked at the elder with a complicated gaze.

As if understanding what Chu Mo was thinking, the elder sighed. "The people I captured back then were all undeniably evil and deserved death a thousand times over. But my methods still went against the Heavenly Dao. Even though they deserved to die, they should not have suffered in that manner. Of course, I didn't think so at the time. I felt that no methods were too extreme for those people. It wasn't until I failed the heavenly trial to become supreme and was thrown into this forsaken place that I took two hundred years to realize my wrongdoing."

The elder did not specify his methods, but one could imagine that they were of the most terrifying kind.

Just think about it, an existence that has surpassed the Emperor Realm would definitely employ every conceivable method to experiment with unforgivably evil people. Naturally, some bloodcurdling and horrifying things would be unavoidable.

"Kid, your realm... shouldn't be very high. You really shouldn't have entered this place by rights. From the moment you arrived here and were protected by a great opportunity, it could be understood that the so-called punishment from the Heavenly Dao... hardly counts as a punishment at all. It even seems a bit like... it was a trial for you, a journey prepared specially for you, huh... Like a journey. Then it let you return with a bunch of divine metals. So I'm a bit curious, how did you come in?" The elder looked at Chu Mo with interest and asked.

Over the years, the elder rarely interacted with anyone. There were very few who could catch his eye. Those who came here killing one after another didn't dare to provoke this living ancestor. Therefore, the elder had actually been very lonely for a thousand years.

Chu Mo scratched his head and said, "In the Spirit Realm, I used a forbidden artifact that didn't belong to the Spirit Realm to target a formidable enemy. As a result, it caused a huge disaster. It turned an unknowable vast area into ashes, a large part of the Spirit Realm's sky collapsed... That place is probably completely ruined."

Listening to Chu Mo's words, the elder's mouth twitched unconsciously, and he was stunned for a long time before he said, "Your move... is much more terrible than mine. Compared with you, the methods I used back in the day are nothing. With this... I'm afraid at least billions of beings have died. With such a huge karma entangling you, you were still able to enter this place intact. And then you immediately received a great fortuity? His grandma's... You really are a monster!"

Hearing this, Chu Mo also felt that the matter was quite miraculous.

Because according to the elder, with actions like his that almost destroyed an entire realm, even if he barely escaped the heavenly punishment, he should only be able to linger on miserably in a place of sin for the rest of his life. It was impossible for him to have any chance of leaving!

The elder guessed that this place was a manifestation of the Great Dao, that kind of cosmic Great Dao that reigns above everything!

Under such principles, without astonishing qi movement, Chu Mo wouldn't have received this kind of treatment.

At this moment, Chu Mo suddenly remembered the three blood moons on the Divine Sky Mirror!

Wishful, Avoiding Disasters, Entering Earth!

A flash of enlightenment sparked in Chu Mo's mind. He seemed to understand something.

Just then, the elder looked at Chu Mo and asked, "The person who made you use the forbidden artifact in the Spirit Realm... shouldn't belong to the Spirit Realm, right? And judging by your current opportunity, the person you were dealing with... must have been a great villain. Who is he? Tell me, perhaps this old man may know him."

Chu Mo glanced at the elder and hesitated for a moment.

The elder said, "What? Are you afraid I'll harm you? Rest assured, with the sort of opportunity and defiant qi movement you have, this old man won't harbor any thoughts against you!"

"It's not that I'm afraid you'll harm me," Chu Mo looked at the elder and then said. "That person is called Blood Demon Ancestor. I wonder if you've heard of him?"

"What?" The elder stood up suddenly, looking incredulously at Chu Mo. The colorful fish scales hadn't made him lose his composure, but upon hearing the four words "Blood Demon Ancestor," the elder was instantly shocked. He looked at Chu Mo with disbelief, "How could a little fellow like you... get involved with that demon head?"

While speaking, without waiting for Chu Mo to answer, a bitter smile appeared on the elder's face, and he said to Chu Mo, "Did you know? That person... was once my best friend."

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