Beneath the Five Immortal Arena's stone monument were six lines of large characters, listing the arena masters from the fifth arena to the tenth arena. Beneath each line was a vast blank space.
Needless to say, this was where the names of those who successfully defended the arena would be carved into stone.
For example, beneath the fifth arena master were several hundred tiny crimson characters: Great Zhou, Taixuan Year Seventy-Four. Xiao Zhen defended the arena for five days; name carved into stone.
There were roughly thirty such names.
The dating system used for these stone carvings was rather complicated. It followed the reign titles used by the successive emperors of Great Zhou. Anyone unfamiliar with Great Zhou's calendar truly would not be able to make sense of it.
One prerequisite for Ye Zhen's extensive reading of Great Zhou's vast collection of books had been memorizing the reign titles of Great Zhou. Taixuan Year Seventy-Four, calculated carefully, should have been seventy thousand years ago!
In other words, this Five Immortal Arena had stood here seventy thousand years ago.
It had stood for a full seventy thousand years, yet there had only been thirty-five arena masters who had defended it for five consecutive days.
Further down, the number of arena masters who had defended it for six straight days was even smaller, directly cut in half to only sixteen. There were only five who had defended it for seven consecutive days.
There was only one who had defended it for eight consecutive days: Xiao Zhen of Taixuan Year Seventy-Four.
As for the ninth and tenth arena masters, they were both completely blank.
That was right—they were blank. Not a single name was there.
In other words, over the past seventy thousand years, not one person had managed to defend the arena