The more Li Hao thought about it, the more likely it seemed. Given Old Feng's temperament, even if he had wanted to leave, he would never have gone without saying goodbye-unless something unexpected had happened.
"Your Highness, do you know who that great peace Dao realm cultivator was?"
Li Hao asked at once.
"It was probably Mara," Jiang Lichen said. "I didn't look closely, but there was no mistaking that monstrous demonic energy. So that friend of yours is most likely already dead."
"Mara?"
Li Hao froze.
"You don't know him?" Jiang Lichen glanced at him, then realized that the boy before him was, after all, only in his teens. Aside from cultivating and practicing the sword, how much time could he have had to learn about these supreme powerhouses?
"Eight hundred years ago, Mara burst onto the scene and wreaked havoc everywhere. The Buddhist Sect sent experts to suppress him, but he killed them instead, cutting his way out through their ranks. After that, he vanished for more than two hundred years. When he appeared again, he had already reached the great peace Dao realm and began causing havoc everywhere once more..."
Jiang Lichen continued, "Five hundred years ago, the Buddha Master personally took action, but Mara sensed it beforehand and escaped. That battle shook heaven and earth. Although the Buddha Master failed to kill Mara, he showed everyone in the world how terrifying his strength was. I don't know whether your Divine General Residence has any records of it, but the Dao Domain he displayed in that battle had five layers!"
Jiang Lichen glanced at Li Hao. "Slightly weaker than you are now, but five hundred years have passed. The Buddha Master was once a prodigy of his generation, too. Given so much time, he could only have