"Indeed, I knew him. It's just that I deliberately forgot most of those things long ago. After all, they happened an exceedingly long time ago. Still, if you want to know, I can tell you. As I recall... back then, this immortal domain had nothing at all. It was merely an outlying land beyond civilization. Then one event changed everything, and new immortal energy gradually began spreading from here as its center, until it became this vast territory of the Immortalizers. Heh, back then, it wasn't an outlying land beyond civilization—it should have been the Old Heaven's Realm, right?" Li Baiyun said with a smile.
"Exactly," I replied.
"Senior Brother, I've never heard you mention any of this..." Swordmaster Jun seemed to feel that his senior brother was closer to me.
Li Baiyun glanced at him and said with a smile, "You never asked me. Why would I bring it up?"
"Uh... all right. If it hadn't been for you, Senior Brother, I wouldn't have entered the sect back then either." Swordmaster Jun spoke, clearly carrying a deeply etched memory of his own.
"Back then, the Old Heaven's Realm was wealthy beyond compare, and countless factions bowed their heads in submission. As for the several major factions that still remain in the territory of the Original Immortalizers, they were merely foils. So what exactly caused the Immortalizers' Land to develop such a vast heavenly city-controlled region?" I asked.
"Bowed their heads in submission? You could say that, I suppose. After all, to anyone who has never been there, what place isn't an outlying land beyond civilization? But you should know that farther north of the Heaven's Realm, immortal energy was likewise dense, and there were enormous inhabited lands. It was simply that the various races never communicated with one another,