This phenomenon sparked Li Xiaofei’s curiosity. Nearly all the structures in both the Near Elemental Clan and the Mountain Clan outposts had remained intact. Even if some bore signs of past battles, none had suffered significant destruction.0

So why were the deity statues the only things completely destroyed? Had the clans shattered them on purpose while fleeing, to avoid the desecration of their gods? Or had they been destroyed by the Oblivion monsters?0

It was strange. Li Xiaofei acquired several more ancient Reaper texts and maps, along with insights into their evolutionary cultivation methods.0

The Mountain Clan had been a clan that focused primarily on cultivating the physical body. They had relied on devouring the local resource known as Flame Rocks as the foundation of their evolution, attempting to absorb the evolutionary energy within the stones to nourish and strengthen their bodies.0

This approach was completely different from the cultivation path taken by the Near Elemental Clan. Yet both had ultimately ended in evolutionary failure. The texts here provided more explicit explanations of what it meant to fail in evolution.0

Many ancient Reaper King-ranked clans, once they identified what they believed to be the optimal path of evolution, had committed their entire clans to it, sparing no effort...0