A majestic red aurora swelled like a river through the canopy of heaven. Because it ebbed and flowed, it didn’t cast its light evenly, causing the silty ground to shift back and forth between brightness and gloom.0

It wasn’t just the ground in the spirit mine that was covered in sludge. The lands surrounding the mine looked the same. Xu Qing knew the explanation for that thanks to the Imperial Sovereign’s servant. This place was in the south of the Fifth Star Ring, and was considered a very remote area. A long time ago, it had been a huge sea. In fact, it had been the Fifth Star Ring’s Primeval Sea.0

Later on, the Immortal Paragon had compacted the starry sky in the Fifth Star Ring, as well as the Primeval Sea, which was a place that countless gods had called home. This place had eventually been occupied by cultivators.0

Unfortunately, the lands were poor and infertile. The upside was that there was no mutagen. The gods in the Fifth Star Ring had been conquered, and to some extent, it was correct to say that they had been outlawed.0

Considering that the aura of the gods, in other words mutagen, was harmful to cultivators, it was only natural that it would be stamped out. In the end, the cultivators started assimilating the gods, turning them into nutrients, extracting their life force to make spirit energy for cultivators to use.1

As Xu Qing traveled,...2