"What exactly is going on?" Liang Xiaoke stared at Ye Jingyu at the scene where Fang Jiuyou had been killed, his face filled with shock. White mice? The Yuan Ling Cult's research using humans was already terrifyingly extreme, but now to suggest that everyone on the Dou Hun Continent was a white mouse—that was simply unbelievable!

"Let's go, we need to leave this place now..." Ye Jingyu said with a solemn tone, quickly pulling Liang Xiaoke and the others away from the scene. The information he had obtained was too world-shattering; in fact, it was so profoundly shocking that he had no choice but to treat it with the utmost caution...

Seeing Ye Jingyu's grave expression, neither Liang Xiaoke nor Huangfu Buyue questioned him further. The group acted in unison, unleashing formidable power to utterly flatten the area. Following this, Gongsun Lu continuously channeled the Azure Wood Qi, urging trees to quickly sprout and cover the ground before they departed. Everything they did was merely to delay Fang Jiuyou's family from discovering the news of his demise...

Back in Miao City, Ye Jingyu summoned everyone around him. Even Lin Xiaoyi was pulled from his training chamber, and Yao Rao remained close by. After all, Yao Rao had played a significant role in taking down Fang Jiuyou; it would be deeply unfair not to inform her. Furthermore, Ye Jingyu was certain that once he revealed everything he knew to Yao Rao, she would never betray him again...

After establishing countless layers of protective boundaries and sweeping his immense divine sense across several kilometers to ensure absolute privacy, Ye Jingyu slowly recounted all the intelligence he had extracted from Fang Jiuyou’s memories...

Every person present—be it Liang Xiaoke, Hu Yanqi, Huangfu Buyue, or Luo Ling'er—gazed at Ye Jingyu with utter astonishment. Of course, aside from Liang Xiaoke, the shock on the others' faces was mingled with deep confusion...

It turned out that to the east of the Dou Hun Continent's sea, there existed another landmass: a continent called Gu Hua. Fang Jiuyou had hailed from this continent. From his memories, Ye Jingyu saw advanced technological structures that he had rarely witnessed even in his previous life—from the metal dwellings on that continent to the intelligent mechanical beasts, all of which possessed the ability to automatically absorb energy...

More crucially, this continent was governed by a single organization known as the Ya Meng (Asian Alliance). The Fang family, to which Fang Jiuyou belonged, was one of the largest prominent families within this Ya Meng...

Because Fang Jiuyou was potentially slated to become the Fang family heir, he had been privy to a wealth of information from childhood that even ordinary residents of that continent could not access.

This world consisted of four major continents: the Dou Hun Continent, the Gu Hua Continent, the Gu Ou Continent (European), and the Gu Fei Continent (African). While the Dou Hun Continent was slightly larger, the other three were roughly equal in size... These three continents were also inhabited by humans: the Gu Hua Continent housed the yellow race, characterized by black eyes, black hair, and yellow skin, as Ye Jingyu knew them. The Gu Ou Continent was home to the white race, and the Gu Fei Continent was populated entirely by the black race...

Each continent had formed its own alliance: the Ou Meng (European Alliance) and the Fei Meng (African Alliance). However, in terms of sheer power, the Ya Meng consistently held a firm lead over both the Ou Meng and the Fei Meng. Furthermore, these three major alliances secretly controlled the three former great empires of the Dou Hun Continent: the Tian Yuan Empire, the Atlanta Empire, and the Fan Long Empire...

Admittedly, the Tian Yuan Empire had since fragmented into three smaller states, but everything remained under the Ya Meng’s overarching control...

The sole reason they treated the Dou Hun Continent as a sort of breeding ground, raising various ethnic groups and even establishing distinct nations, was for the meticulous study of human genetics...

Long, long, long ago—so far back that even some of the Fang family's records were vague—Fang Jiuyou did not know the details. Humanity had endured a cataclysmic conflict known as the War of World Annihilation. During that time, the individual strength of humans was exceptionally meager, perhaps less than a commoner on the current Dou Hun Continent, yet their weaponry was terrifyingly potent, consisting entirely of high-yield thermal weapons. The entire world was engulfed in conflict...

The war claimed countless lives. Not only that, but the ancient Earth (the world from Fang Jiuyou's memories) where humanity resided was left riddled with scars, even the planet's crust fractured and shifted, causing the original landmasses to drift apart and eventually form the current four continents. Humanity was brought to the very brink of extinction...

In desperation, all surviving humans signed a pact vowing never to use thermal weapons again and proceeded to destroy every last one, retaining only select energy-based weaponry...

Without thermal weapons, humanity's self-defense capabilities plummeted. To ensure the continuation of the human race throughout the cosmos, humanity shifted its focus inward, targeting the human body itself. This became the ultimate evolutionary path they chose: the cultivation of the 'True Body'...

The strength of the True Body was recognized as the only true form of power. In pursuit of this goal, countless more lives were lost. Eventually, people gradually deciphered the methods to cultivate their inherent energy. Moreover, they unearthed ancient cultivation secrets from various ruins. Combined with rigorous scientific calculation, set after set of cultivation methods were developed, and the human genome was continuously refined, growing ever stronger...

In time, humans reached a state where they could soar through the sky without the need for aircraft, and sprint with incredible speed without relying on vehicles...

As humanity's intrinsic power grew, the use of even energy weapons became rare; cold steel became the preferred instrument of combat...

When human strength reached a certain peak, they gradually came to know things that had previously been utterly inaccessible—concepts such as Gods, Immortals, Demons, and Spirits (Yao)...

These entities, once relegated to mythology and legend, were understood to be profoundly real once human power ascended to its zenith.

Yet, they understood even more clearly that whether Gods, Immortals, or Demons, they were merely extraordinarily powerful beings. Immortals, in particular, were once human, merely reaching a certain pinnacle of strength.

From relics dating back to the Primordial Era, many individuals had attained that very level of attainment. They could command wind and summon rain without any external aid; they could move mountains and overturn seas; a single punch could shatter an entire peak. They possessed the might of the legendary Immortals and consequently held no lingering awe for them...

Because they confirmed that the so-called Immortals were not mere legends, humanity began its exploration of these ancient beings. They used technology for calculation and sifted through countless ancient sites for clues. After an unknown number of years of relentless effort, they finally grasped the truth: all those supposed Immortals had ascended to another plane of existence—a realm they referred to as the Immortal Realm...