Liu Shen and the others quickly understood the whole story after a brief thought.
They also deduced the purpose of the foreign realm attacking Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
Firstly, it was probably truly for the foreign realm to find the origin ancient artifact; Ning Fan had already said so himself in the previous diary entries.
Back then, the Jie Hai Immortal King Qu Chong, who was biased towards the foreign realm, personally shattered the Burial Ground. This matter was known to everyone who survived the Immortal Ancient era.
It was definitely the origin ancient artifact of the Burial Ground at that time, the one containing the bone crown.
It had been lost to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, which was why the foreign realm exhausted all its power, regardless of the cost, to frantically attack the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
Secondly, since the foreign realm had been contaminated by darkness, places like the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, which had not been eroded by darkness,
and the non-dark creatures within them, were naturally regarded as anomalies by the foreign realm. Their desire to clear out the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths was not difficult to understand.
Just as they had thought,
in the subsequent diary entries, Ning Fan completely confirmed for them that these were indeed the two reasons.
However,
what shocked them was that there was still a secret within this.
It was also the main reason for the foreign realm's frenzy.
But this reason turned out to be a calculation and a conspiracy, and the truth was terrifying!
[The Burial Ground was later shattered by Jie Hai Immortal King Qu Chong.]
[The origin ancient artifact containing the bone crown drifted into the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.]
[The Immortal Kings all believed that as long as they gathered the two origin ancient artifacts, they could comprehend the secret to becoming an Emperor.]
[This was the reason why the foreign realm attacked the Burial Ground and then the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.]
[Dark assimilation was actually the most insignificant reason.]
[But this reason was the most terrifying.]
[Because it was guided by the three Emperors, Cangyu Hong, in the foreign realm.]
[And the secret to becoming an Emperor within the origin ancient artifact was just a gimmick they threw to the foreign realm.]
[Through countless eons of calamities, whenever dark turmoil erupted...]
[The foreign realm became a chess piece for those three to harvest living beings.]
[But those three were also Emperor Bone Bro's chess pieces.]
[And Emperor Bone Bro...]
[Alright, I can't finish it all at once, I'll talk about it later. Let's stop here with this matter.]
[I'll continue talking about Emperor Bone Bro.]
Comprehending the origin ancient artifact can lead to becoming an Emperor?
And it's fake?
The entire foreign realm was treated as a chess piece, constantly being played for a fool, and the smallest reason for the foreign realm to start a war was the most important to the people behind the scenes?
The people behind the scenes were just pawns.
And the people behind the people behind the scenes were most likely still pawns?
The Immortal Maidens' emotions were like a roller coaster.
This diary entry made their emotions fluctuate wildly.
They thought they were on the 'atmosphere layer,' having already guessed the truth, but they didn't expect to be on the 'first layer'...
No!
They should be in the 'sewer.'
Then, Ning Fan told them that their opponents in the Immortal Ancient war, with whom they fought to the death, were merely chess pieces, pawns.
They found this fact difficult to accept.
Before they could even process it,
Ning Fan told them again that the black hands controlling their opponents were also chess pieces, pawns, and the ultimate black hand was still a pawn...
A pawn's chess player is a pawn, the chess player becomes a pawn and still has a chess player, and the chess player's chess player is also a pawn...
"No infinite nesting!"
Although the Immortal Maidens didn't have the concept of 'Infernal Affairs,' they still felt this brain-burning sensation.
The Immortal Kings of the foreign realm, the fallen Immortal Kings of the Jie Hai...
All their enemies were mere pawns!
Then what were they?
Liu Shen, the chicken-raiser, Jie Mie...
They all fell silent and withdrew, feeling like life was meaningless.
Fortunately, the dog Ning Fan stopped there.
They prided themselves on being Immortal King powerhouses, coeval with heaven and earth, shining with the sun and moon, their lifespans enduring through countless ages without decay.
They all thought they were big shots.
Oh, so high!
Feeling like life had reached its peak.
But then the dog Ning Fan told them.
They couldn't even be considered chess players...
Is this reasonable?
What's there to be high about now?
...
My head feels so itchy, like it's about to grow a brain.
The playful little Immortal Maiden Hong Huang was no longer happy.
She could understand every sentence in the diary.
But she found that when put together, she couldn't understand it anymore!
At this moment, her face was full of question marks.
"What is he talking about?"
...
"A pawn is still a pawn, the chess player becomes a pawn, the chess player's chess player is also a pawn, the chess player's chess player's chess player..."
"But the lowest-ranking pawns are Immortal Kings, so what were my former dreams, those Supremes and Sect Masters?"
"What were the Heavenly Gods?"
"What am I now?"
The Silver-haired Little Rabbit Girl counted on her little fingers, over and over again.
By the end, she was utterly confused.
Then she burst into tears with a wail.
Awoo...
Yue Chan, who was devoted to seeking the Dao, almost had her Dao heart collapse.
This diary entry from Ning Fan broke the defenses of countless Immortal Maidens, and he was still writing in his diary.
[The last item is the Great Luo Sword Embryo.]
[The world also calls it the Great Luo Immortal Sword!]
[But the world doesn't know that the owner of this sword is Emperor Bone Bro. It is a true Immortal Emperor weapon, made from the scraps of the Three Worlds Copper Coffin. It can grow stronger by devouring immortal gold and divine materials.]
[This sword is the number one killing weapon in the world!]
[But this sword is inauspicious. All its previous owners met tragic ends: Emperor Bone Bro, who forged it, died; the nameless Quasi-Immortal Emperor died; the founder of the Immortal Realm system (who was the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor who created the Chaotic Ancient method) died; ...; the Five-Crowned King died; Shi Hao died!]
[Anyone who obtains it will be purged by darkness!]
[And it is currently in the great spatial rift at the entrance to Immortal Ancient.]
"So it's that sword!"
At this moment, the Dragon Maiden was incredibly surprised.
Having trained in Immortal Ancient herself, she naturally knew the Five-Crowned King, and she had been fortunate enough to see that sword, but she never expected it to be an Immortal Emperor weapon.
And that sword was actually so powerful?
Hearing of the sword's current whereabouts, her heart was moved, but after reading the description in the diary, she dared not move.
Such an inauspicious, master-killing weapon, no matter how good, she wouldn't have the life to use it.
[Having finished writing about Emperor Bone Bro's three items.]
[There's nothing left to write about.]
[He was merely contaminated by a drop of strange blood from the Heavens Above.]
[Then he single-handedly sealed off the entrance to the Heavens Above.]
[He was blocking the spring by himself!]
[And he blocked it for endless ages.]
[Most people say that Wild Heaven Emperor is a hero, that Wild Heaven Emperor suffered greatly, and there's nothing wrong with that.]
[I also think so.]
[My disciple's life can be said to be extremely glorious. He is a truly deserving hero, possessing all halos, his name itself is honor.]
[He slew the Seven Gods to protect the lower realm, went to the Primordial Covenant to guard the Emperor Pass, established the Heavenly Court to protect the Immortal Realm, and single-handedly fought the darkness to bring peace to the world.]
[His entire life was spent under the brilliant light of heaven, bravely and unyieldingly fighting.]
[His actions, all his merits, were seen by the world.]
[Even if there were no records in later generations, the people of that era witnessed it all.]
[But everything Emperor Bone Bro did was not.]
[Nothing at all.]
[There are no records in the world, and no one witnessed it.]
[Even traces of his existence are almost unknown.]
[Not in the light of heaven, forever suppressing the darkness.]
[His primordial spirit and physical body were severed, his primordial spirit forever suppressed in the rotten wooden box, his physical body turned into a pile of rotten remains, yet still locked there.]
[The crucial thing is that he did all of this willingly.]
[Alas...]
[The world says Wild is desolate, his peerless Dao reigns supreme for all eternity. Who knows he blocked the hole to seal the Heavens Above? Who pities Emperor Bone and speaks of his goodness?]
[The world says Wild is a hero, cherishing Wild Heaven and remembering his virtue. They only hate the evil of the strange, and Emperor Bone's death cannot quell it!]
[The world says Wild has merit, cultivating his Dao and speaking of his grace. But alas for Emperor Bone, ancient and sorrowful, a nameless hero, who remembers him?]
[The world says Wild is number one, pacifying the dark disaster and fighting the strange. Unremembered if not in the light, who resisted the prehistoric darkness?]
[Who says standing in the light makes one a hero?]
[I really want to say, not standing in the light, is still a hero!]
[Heroes are not judged by their origin, wealth should be considered from its source!]
[Those who died for the covenant, who died fighting the strange, whether nameless pawns or great Immortal King powers, they are all great heroes!]
[Those who are in enemy territory but whose hearts are in their homeland, those who sacrificed behind enemy lines, in the shadows, for the protection of all beings in the world, even at the cost of anonymity, even at the cost of abandoning family and friends, they are all great heroes.]
[The perfect world is not just Wild's perfect world left to the world.]
[It is even more so the perfect world left by Emperor Bone Bro to All Heavens and Myriad Realms and all living beings in the world, who, from endless ages before the Emperor's fall, from the beginning of the strange eruption, used his body to block the calamity for the world, yet ended up with his soul and body separated, and countless ages of loneliness.]
[If not for Emperor Bone Bro's sacrifice, this world would have been completely occupied by the strange long before the Emperor's fall.]
[Pity the nameless hero, pity that no one in the world knows him. Instead, he was eroded by the strange, but later generations only remember Wild's affection, not his grace.]