Old Saints!
Gujin had indeed brought up this group.
Before the 23rd epoch, they had been at the height of their power, their ultimate splendor illuminating all worlds.
Before the 17th epoch, they had still possessed considerable renown.
But after that, they had suddenly vanished into extinction.
Of course, it could not be denied that some had Borrowed Corpses to Revive Souls and might not have died completely.
A few Old Saints might also have undergone "Person-to-Person," allowing them to revive and reappear.
Very few knew why disaster had suddenly struck them at that point before the 18th epoch, only for them to utterly perish during the years before the 17th epoch.
"Did they encounter an utterly terrifying faction, some unimaginable group of foreign enemies?" After Gujin paused, Wang Xuan could not help urging it to continue.
Gujin remained calm. "You are overthinking it. Fellow Daoist He Sheng once said: where are there so many impassioned elegies? Do not make too many associations."
It added that whether they were Old Saints or True Saints of this era, they all sought survival. Only by staying alive could they look toward anything else.
Gujin said, "Of course, the Old Saints may truly have encountered something. But with every participant dead, it has become an unsolvable mystery."
Wang Xuan was deeply disappointed. Even Gujin did not know about these matters?
He knew perfectly well that the being within the Black Wood Box might have experienced "Person-to-Person" and might itself be a creature from the Old Saint period.
Gujin said, "Those who luckily did not die all had problems. Their memories are unclear. Things like 'Person-to-Person' and 'Thing-to-Person' were mostly tragic experiences. Some underwent passive transformations, such as changing from person to object. The rest were killed, then struggled to revive. None of it