Amid the mist.
Gu Qingshan, Old Fairy, Fei Ying, and Xie Shuangyan gathered there.
Everyone released their strongest concealment spells, sealing off everything around them before continuing to speak.
"Gu Qingshan, you said you already know that secret?" Xie Shuangyan asked incredulously.
Gu Qingshan's expression was calm, with only a trace of reminiscence in his eyes. He murmured, "Master Ancestor... truly worthy of being an Apostle of the Prehistoric Era."
"How do you know he was an Apostle of the Prehistoric Era?" Fei Ying couldn't help asking.
Gu Qingshan said, "Master Ancestor just said that, at the height of the Prehistoric Era, the Saints explored Chaos together. But none of them could endure being in Chaos and had to retreat. Only he 'stayed a few more days.' Pay attention—he said, 'stayed a few more days.' His strength was already far beyond the other Saints'. That's the first reason."
"What's the second?" Fei Ying continued.
"The second is this: as soon as the Black Statue appeared, it said to Master Ancestor, 'We never settled who was stronger back then. You escaped.' The Black Statue is the king of the fiends. Who could fight it to a draw and still escape?" Gu Qingshan said.
He looked at Xie Shuangyan and asked, "Each of you Apostles was favored by your Era and was the strongest of your time, wasn't that right?"
"Yes." Xie Shuangyan nodded.
"Besides," Gu Qingshan continued, "I've realized that Senior Brother Xiaolou has never dared show himself because he carries the last glimmer of life of the Fire Era. If he dies, the Era will have no chance of rising again..."
"What does that have to do with anything?" Mystic Heaven Garment couldn't help asking.
"My Master Ancestor has been trapped in a small world to avoid the fiends' pursuit.