If you die, I will be able to inherit your cultivation.

With a thought, Zhou Ming began to sense the specific location of the split soul.

Then he moved out silently, and in the next instant, he appeared in a restaurant near Chengtian Sect.

With a calm mind, he directly completed the connection between the main soul and the divided soul, and began to read all the memories of the divided soul over the past thousand years.

For a thousand years, the Immortal Realm appeared peaceful and uneventful, but in reality, a momentous event occurred that spread throughout the Five Realms and was known to all.

Back then, the Demon Void suddenly collapsed, turning into a terrifying spacetime black hole, which was about to affect the Immortal Realm.

All nine great sages of this universe mobilized, and even the other sages who rarely returned, usually resided deep within the chaos, all rushed back.

Nine sages joined forces to suppress the rampant spacetime black hole, thus preventing the catastrophe of the universe's destruction.

Just as the nine sages suppressed the spacetime black hole, a beam of light burst forth from the depths of the demonic void and rushed directly into the immortal realm.

The light and shadow arrived in the Immortal Realm, revealing the complete process of the collapse and destruction of the Demon Realm to all cultivators without reservation.

The light and shadow images are displayed with perfect clarity, without the slightest blur.

At the beginning of the scene, a round black stone the size of a fist sped out from the depths of chaos, tearing through the chaotic space and falling straight into the originally intact land of the demon realm.

Following closely behind the black stone, an incredibly thick, colorless bolt of lightning traversed the chaotic void, precisely locking onto the black stone and striking it down.

The thunderous strike blasted the black stone into countless fragments.

However, the power of this thunder was too terrifying. The aftershock of just this one thunderbolt completely ignited the space of the demon realm.

In the blink of an eye, the once stable and intact void of the demon realm began to collapse and shatter on a large scale, with countless spacetime rifts spreading throughout the entire demon realm, and spatial storms raging wildly.

The black stones and fragments struck by lightning were quickly swallowed up in the spacetime rift and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

As a result, the collapse of space in the entire demon realm caused the overturning of the earth's veins and the shattering of the land. All the mountains, rivers and streams in the demon realm collapsed and broke apart, and the earth disintegrated.

Countless creatures native to the demon realm had no time to escape and suffered heavy casualties under the power of the colorless lightning and spatial collapse. The once prosperous demon realm was instantly reduced to a dead land.

At this point in the video, the light and shadow in the sky suddenly disappeared, and there was no further footage.

After Zhou Ming stared intently at the complete scene in his memory, his body stiffened, and his eyes were filled with disbelief.

Although this scene happened a long time ago, he was very familiar with it.

When he first came into contact with the Qiankun Pearl's central core, the image that flashed through his mind was exactly the same as this video.

The same black stones, the same colorless destructive lightning, the same scene of flying rubble and collapsing space—all the details are completely identical, without a single difference.

In an instant, all the clues connected, and Zhou Ming finally understood.

The real root cause of the demon realm's destruction was not the invasion of outsiders, but the Qiankun Pearl in his possession.

Upon realizing this, Zhou Ming's heart suddenly sank, and a sense of unease instantly welled up within him.

The Qiankun Pearl could destroy an entire realm simply by triggering a bolt of lightning from beyond the heavens.

The colorless, world-destroying lightning, powerful enough to shatter an entire realm, ultimately failed to destroy the Qiankun Pearl. Instead, it hid within a spatial rift, remaining unharmed.

What does this tell us?

This shows that the true quality of the Qiankun Pearl far exceeded all his previous understanding.

He had always underestimated the level and terrifying power of this treasure.

Immediately afterwards, news of the Chaos Elder's plans, the gathering of nine sages and quasi-sages and golden immortals from the five realms to flock to Chaos in search of treasures flashed through Zhou Ming's mind.

All the mysteries were instantly solved.

A sage, an old man from the chaos, spent countless years planning and scheming, mobilizing the pinnacle of power in the entire universe to delve into the chaos in search of treasure.

Their sole objective, from beginning to end, was the Qiankun Pearl in his possession.

The Qiankun Pearl only chose him as its master by chance.

The Qiankun Pearl possesses the extraordinary ability to evolve the world, conceal heavenly secrets, and hide one's aura.

It was precisely because of its ability to conceal itself that no matter how the sages deduced the secrets of heaven and searched the chaos and the five realms, they could never find a trace of the Qiankun Pearl, let alone pinpoint its existence.

After thinking through all the causes and consequences, Zhou Ming felt a cold sweat break out on his back and began to feel lingering fear.

He was extremely grateful that he had been cautious and careful throughout his cultivation journey.

He fully utilizes the ability to conceal the secrets of the universe from beginning to end, never revealing his own trump cards, and never acting ostentatiously.

If he had been even slightly careless back then, even if he had revealed just a trace of the Qiankun Pearl's aura or presence...

Given the sage's ruthless methods, he had no chance of survival. He would have been wiped out by a group of top figures long ago, leaving no trace of his remains.

Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Zhou Ming forced down his fear and quickly calmed himself.

After a while, Zhou Ming calmed himself down again and focused his consciousness on the split soul body that was lying dormant in the Dragon Clan, continuing to read the memories.

Previously, the entire Demon Void region collapsed, a catastrophe of world-ending magnitude, trapping more than twenty Quasi-Saints within it, with no chance of survival under normal circumstances.

He had assumed that all the Quasi-Saints who had besieged Xuanqing back then had perished in the spacetime black hole.

After reading the memories of the dragon's divided soul, Zhou Ming couldn't help but mutter a curse under his breath, calling him a cunning old bastard.

Despite the cataclysmic collapse of spacetime that was enough to destroy an entire world, a total of five quasi-saints survived.

The Dragon King of the Dragon Clan, the beautiful woman of the Phoenix Clan, Xuanwu Xuanqing, the old Buddhist monk, and the ruthless and cunning cultivator from the Demon Realm—all five survived and did not perish.

How the five managed to survive and escape death amidst the black hole swallowing them and the collapse of spacetime remains unknown.

After the catastrophe ended, and the nine sages joined forces to completely suppress the demonic void spacetime black hole and stabilize the cosmic order, they began to thoroughly investigate the cause and effect of this catastrophe and hold the five surviving quasi-sages accountable.

Ultimately, the nine sages used the foundations of five quasi-sages as the base of their formations, supplemented by a vast amount of heavenly treasures and spiritual materials, to unleash their supreme sage powers.

Not only did it completely stabilize the broken and collapsed Demon Void Space-Time, it also forcefully reconstructed a brand new continent from a void of Demon Void ruins.

Subsequently, the Sage publicly ruled that, considering the Dragon King's unintentional involvement in the incident and his indirect role in stabilizing the chaos, which was considered a minor merit, the Sage would grant the Dragon Clan protection, ensuring their peaceful existence for tens of thousands of years.

However, the price was that the Dragon King of the Dragon Clan would never be able to leave the new Demon Realm continent again, and would be permanently imprisoned there.

Zhou Ming instantly understood the implications.

Tens of thousands of years later, the protection of the sage ended, and the Dragon King of the Dragon Clan was still trapped in the Demon Realm, unable to return to the Dragon Clan to oversee his clan.

At that time, the Dragon Clan will lose the protection of top-tier Quasi-Saint combat power and will no longer be cared for by Saints. The Dragon Clan in the Immortal Realm will have no shield and will inevitably be devoured and targeted by various forces, ultimately facing the fate of extinction.

For this reason, the Dragon Clan will have no choice but to relocate as a whole to the new Demon Realm continent, relying on the Dragon King to maintain their clan's foundation.

Zhou Ming was not surprised by the sage's supreme methods.

In his previous life, he had read quite a few fantasy novels on Tomato.

Even before she became a saint, Nuwa could refine stones to mend the sky and restore the world. Now, with the nine saints of this universe joining forces, repairing a broken demon realm, reshaping the land, and stabilizing spacetime is naturally an easy task.

Logically speaking, the power of a divided soul in the Golden Immortal realm is too weak to be qualified to come into contact with or hear such top-level secrets of the universe.

However, the nine sages deliberately revealed all the truth, including publicizing the crimes of the five quasi-sages.

The major powers were informed of all the follow-up arrangements, including the permanent imprisonment of the five people in the demon realm and the protection granted to the Dragon, Phoenix, and Xuanwu clans.

Within the Immortal Realm, the Dragon Clan, Phoenix Clan, and Xuanwu Clan all receive open protection from the Sage.

As for whether the forces of the two surviving quasi-saints in the demon realm and the Buddhist realm have been protected by the saints, the news has not yet reached the immortal realm, so the split soul naturally has no way of knowing.