His heart skipped a beat, Du Li couldn’t help but feel nervous.

He always felt like he was being manipulated, led by the nose, which was quite unsettling!

But as things stood, he could only ponder and say, "Since Mr. Jiang already knows, I’ll cut to the chase. The Demon King’s invasion aims to seize the power of the Celestial Dao’s remnant; to be honest, as I previously mentioned, the coup by the Inspection Department’s director leading to the suspension of the entire Inspection Department was also because of this treasure.

Currently, the situation is widely known and causing a stir throughout the city. Although the nature of the treasure hasn’t been revealed, many Demon Cultivators and Evil Cultivators are eager to take advantage of the chaos for personal gain.

I am too weak to guard it alone, so I repeatedly pleaded with the Alliance Leader to take action. In recent days, we’ve been discussing how to prioritize this matter and have specially come to invite Mr. Jiang to join."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yuan was slightly stunned—this shouldn’t be related to my becoming employed, right? 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

I don’t know anyone, nor did I instigate the director’s rebellion!

Besides, it seems like there really was some chain reaction.

The system issued a mission for me to become employed, and I became the director; then the director rebelled, leading to the entire Inspection Department’s suspension, and that department completely collapsed.

The system issued another mission, asking me to understand the ins and outs of collective ascension.

Well, turns out the rebellious director was targeting the power of the Celestial Dao’s remnant, even causing the two Alliance Leaders to become panicked, running over to confess everything to me, quite interesting!

Through all this, my Talent Skills played some role, but it’s difficult to say for sure.

Perhaps the system chose to bind me because of this uncanny ability to bring downfall to those I get involved with.

Pouring a cup of tea, Jiang Yuan gestured for him to continue.

"This matter may trace back tens of thousands of years. After all, it involves secrets, and predecessors dared not casually leave behind written words or letters, only orally transmitting, thus no specific time is known. Back then, the Demon Realm Alliance was not dominant in the Wilderness World."

Du Li took a sip of tea, starting from the beginning: "On the wilderness, there were numerous Demon Beasts and Demon Cultivators, who mostly acted according to barbaric laws, hence perpetual warfare. Additionally, the grudges between the Ancient Ten Great Sects and the Human Race Cultivators adding fuel, Demon Cultivators constantly fought amongst themselves endlessly.

At the time, Wanmang Mountain was called Great Wilderness Mountain, with a single enormous and barren peak, inhabited by a Demon Beast group. One day, during territory battles with other groups reaching a dark sky-level intensity, they all vanished in an instant.

Not only did two equally strong Demon Beast groups disappear simultaneously, but all living beings around Great Wilderness Mountain vanished in a short time, prompting nearby Demon Cultivators to investigate, leaving only one alliance member requesting assistance.

The battle became known as the Great Wilderness Mountain War via word of mouth.

The details are unknown, only that the alliance suffered considerable losses, and eventually broke Great Wilderness Mountain to discover another realm within—a magnificent landscape full of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, with its center being what is now Wanmang Mountain.

Scattered around were many abandoned, ancient Divine Artifacts, Top Quality Magical Treasures, amongst others, fortifying the foundation of the Demon Realm Alliance. And several thousand meters below Wanmang Mountain lies the power of the Celestial Dao’s remnant.

Of course, countless predecessors in the Demon Realm Alliance learned what this treasure was through years of study and exploration.

It was discovered how those mysteriously disappeared Demon Beasts and Demon Cultivators vanished—they had somehow disturbed the mysterious force which swallowed them all.

After many years of exploration by countless predecessors, with many Demon Cultivators even sacrificing their lives for this, the alliance’s greatest secret and plan emerged, which is to utilize the power of the Celestial Dao’s remnant for collective ascension!"

Jiang Yuan: ???

Not sure if he was deliberately concealing something or what, it sounded like full of loopholes.

"After so many years, you’ve paid a lot to protect this treasure, hasn’t any Demon Cultivator been tempted to try to ascend first?" he thought to himself, ascension to immortality is every cultivator’s common aspiration; how could it be possible that all Demon Cultivators for so many years maintain pure hearts, silently contributing, leaving the opportunity for others?

"Does Mr. Jiang not know what ’power of the Celestial Dao’s remnant’ signifies?" Du Li said, both surprised and helpless: "That’s the remaining power of the Celestial Dao, which no mere few Demon Cultivators could dare to touch.

When this treasure was first discovered, some predecessors mistakenly took it for ordinary Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, attempting to absorb and refine it for themselves. Ultimately, merely attempting led to their bodies swiftly bursting from the invasive power!"

Watching helplessly as even the mighty predecessors without resistance explode in the blink of an eye, who would rashly attempt?

Thus, the Demon Realm Alliance invested much effort to perfectly conceal Wanmang Mountain, transforming it into the most confidential Secret Realm. Luckily, after years of exploration, the issue of cultivator bodies being unable to contain excess power has been solved; numerous astonishing Array Masters designed an ascension array.

Throughout history, the alliance continuously expanded, striving to recruit elites among Demon Cultivators, precisely preparing for collective ascension.

Once the Heart Mirror is repaired, with it reflecting and selecting those whose hearts and virtues match, eliminating those whose virtue does not deserve their position. By then, we shall orderly align according to contributions, realm levels, etc.

Mr. Jiang, needless to say, would certainly stand alongside the Alliance Leader, City Lord Yuan, and myself among the Great Cultivators, at the front. The further back the less experienced, lower the realm; subsequently, the lesser power they could contain and absorb.

Activating the ascension array, at least tens of thousands of cultivators can together with us bear the power of the Celestial Dao’s remnant, achieving True Skill and righteous ascension to the Celestial Realm!"