"Great Emperor!!!"
Ye Fan, the Heavenly Court, and many of the current generation's prodigies had not left. When they saw Gu Sheng appear, they all began speaking, yet none of them knew what to ask.
"All living beings are searching for the path to immortality. Countless people want to become immortals, but who knows what an immortal truly is?"
Gu Sheng sighed and looked toward Zhang Bairen. "You once met Emperor Huang Tian—the one who gave you the divine source in which you sealed yourself. Can you tell me what kind of person he was?"
Zhang Bairen sighed. "When I was born, the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths had already been destroyed during the dark purge. It was said that ninety percent of all living beings had died then, while the people of the Immortal Domain took away a group of elites.
"The end of the Chaotic Ancient Era was a time of great upheaval, the most terrifying era of all. The heavens were shattered, the continents sank, and countless small worlds, forbidden zones, and other places were permanently erased.
"Supreme powerhouses descended time and again, slaughtering until the sun and moon lost their light and the mountains and rivers were destroyed. The entire universe was shaken apart. The originally complete Nine Heavens and Ten Earths became what they are now during the dark purge, and people came to live upon one life star after another.
"Emperor Huang Tian—I don't know him. But when I met the person who gave me the divine source, he was a young man. He wore a tattered battle robe stained with blood, as though he had experienced countless battles. His eyes were filled with bewilderment, as if he had slept for an extremely long time..."
"Emperor Huang Tian, who severed himself from all eternity...