"A Heavenly Venerable at the Eight Rites God Emperor divine rank..."
"When you were an Eight Rites God Emperor, your combat strength was nowhere near that of a Heavenly Venerable either, was it?"
The Old Daoist looked at the Champion Marquis opposite him and asked with a smile.
"Of course not."
"Across all ages, he might well be the greatest practitioner of the Divine Path."
"How strange."
"If he were merely the protagonist of this Divine Path era, how could he be so terrifying?"
"The Peak Divine Path Grand Assembly has been held nine hundred and twenty times, producing nine hundred and twenty Divine Path protagonists, yet none came anywhere close to him."
"What exactly makes him so special?"
The Champion Marquis was puzzled.
He was merely a lingering obsession, and much of his memory was missing.
"I don't know either."
"You're a lingering obsession, and I'm only an avatar."
"Although I'm stronger than you, I don't know much more than you do."
"Strange."
"I'm an avatar. By rights, I should have the same memories my original self had back then."
"How could so many memories be missing..."
The Old Daoist frowned and murmured.
Ordinarily, it was not a problem.
But whenever something touched upon the immense secrets of the Endless Void, his memories were missing.
Of course—
Only his original self could alter his memories.
Thus, all his missing memories had been erased by his original self back then.
But why had his original self erased those memories?
Could his original self and the others have some earth-shaking scheme in the works?
"Old Daoist."
"Have you ever considered this?"
"Perhaps you and I exist in the Fangdao Domain precisely to safeguard his journey?"
The Champion Marquis suddenly spoke.
The Old Daoist froze.
Then his brows immediately knitted together.
He