Chapter 567
Chapter Title: Dark Heaven Village
Dalma had been killed by the [Old Rulers]?
That was different from what I’d thought—that he’d simply exploded and died from the overwhelming demonic power of the Magic Tome. I looked at the Oracle and said,
“Tell me more.”
[Dalma was originally a great monk from Tianzhu... He came to the Central Plains during the era of the Sixth Patriarch, met Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan, founded Shaolin Temple, and spread the Buddha’s teachings... But afterward, he vanished... That was because, as his cultivation deepened, he realized the truth hidden on the underside of the world and went mad.]
“Went mad?”
[Everything without exception is despair... Even death is hell... This world is a sandcastle barely held together by the flimsy mercy of the gods... Few beings could easily accept such a fact...]
“……”
I fell silent. I was certainly strong-willed enough to endure facing that despair head-on and keep going, but most would be consumed by madness or choose suicide. The Oracle continued.