The mountains fell silent once more. The vast fog vanished, and the Fifth Divine General disappeared without a trace atop his warhorse, seemingly having gone elsewhere to patrol.
"Why couldn't I harm him?"
Wei Fan looked puzzled.
These taboos existed because of certain obsessions. When he had first heard of taboos, Li Ya had told him that taboos could not be destroyed. Limited by his understanding of them at the time, he had assumed that was true.
But as he grew stronger, he began to feel something was wrong.
Taboos were manifestations of the obsessions of Martial Emperor experts. Saint Realm experts might not be able to destroy them, but could Martial Emperor experts truly be unable to erase them as well? Then why had none of the Human race's Martial Emperors throughout the ages entered Cangwu Mountain and destroyed every taboo here?
Although the taboos of Cangwu Mountain could not harm the outside world, the panel's notice that killing them could grant cultivation meant these things were evil.
"Because he is the Fifth Divine General under the Human Emperor!" Huangfu Nalan revealed a strange expression. "Don't tell me you don't even know how Cangwu Mountain came to be?"
Seeing Wei Fan's baffled expression, she instantly understood that although Wei Fan had entered Cangwu Mountain, he seemed to know nothing at all about this place.
Wei Fan shook his head. "I've asked quite a few people, but they all treated Cangwu Mountain and the beings here as something too taboo to mention. They kept saying taboos could not be spoken of. Never mind how Cangwu Mountain came to be—even why there are so many taboos here, I don't know."
Still, he knew who the Human Emperor Huangfu Nalan spoke of was. Of the Three Human Emperors, Emperor Fuxi and Emperor