"Taiyi? Taiyi?" Meng Qi murmured, repeating the name. A flood of thoughts rushed through his mind.
If it was Taiyi, did that mean Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun, one of the Nine Venerables of the Daoist Sect and the Azure Emperor's Daoist incarnation? After all, apart from him, what other Taiyi could make such a terrifying monster obsessively call out his name—the terrifying monster that had required nine Immortal Venerables to sacrifice their lives and their remains to suppress it?
If it had called out "Taiyi," then which great figure did that refer to? There didn't seem to have been anyone called "Taiyi" in Ancient Times, though myths about Eastern Emperor Taiyi had circulated back on Earth, where he had come from.
There were far too many clues at present. He simply couldn't guess.
As he pondered, Meng Qi noticed something odd. Looking at True Person Yunhe, he asked, "When did these nine Immortal Venerables' tombs appear?"
True Person Yunhe had long wondered about that himself. Without needing to think, he replied, "Our Founding Patriarch moved the sect into a grotto-heaven because of the demonic chaos on Earth. But after the chaos was quelled, he didn't return to the grotto-heaven or bring the sect back into the world. So we can determine that this happened sometime between the demonic chaos on Earth and the Human Emperor's passing."
"That can also be corroborated from another angle. From the Sage Emperor's time onward, there were scattered records of the nine Immortal Venerables' tombs."
"The Demon Saintess and the Human Emperor were alive then, and both were powerhouses from the other shore. What kind of monster could they not eliminate? Why did nine Immortal Venerables have to make that choice?" Meng Qi voiced his doubt.
True Person Yunhe gave a rueful smile. "This old Daoist