Though the conditions varied, all had become environments where life could no longer thrive.
In some places, the cause could no longer be traced.
In others, faint clues still remained.
What shocked Xiao Shou even more was that within the Great Ao Kingdom, which was supported by the demonic sect, there was indeed such a place as well.
More than two hundred years ago, a similar event had occurred.
A boy had survived and was taken into the Seven Devil Dao Sects, the very sect to which Zhong Kui, one of the male leads, belonged.
Going further back, four hundred years, five hundred years, there was no clear pattern.
At irregular intervals, one or two formations would be activated, leaving behind a pair of Cycle of Cause and End Relics.
Similarly, around these locations and along the depleted spirit veins, at the nine outer points of the massive formation similar to the Fate Bestowing Array and Fate Devouring Array, there existed nine kinds of malnourished heavenly treasures.
