Faced with Dream's "unlucky" life, everyone fell silent for two breaths.
Then the Sword Ancestor turned to Zhang Bairen and said, "The Three Teachings and the Divine Beast lineage poured untold resources into investigating these matters."
"The Four Madmen appeared far too long after that group of lucky ones, so your conjecture doesn't hold."
Seeing how firmly the Sword Ancestor spoke, Zhang Bairen grinned. "From our perspective, it certainly doesn't."
"Because the Cultivation World has no means of sealing a living being away for millions of years."
"But have you considered that just because the Cultivation World can't do it, that doesn't mean the Immortal Domain can't?"
At those words, the Sword Ancestor instantly clenched his fists.
He knew that Zhang Bairen's argument held up perfectly well.
Seeing the Sword Ancestor's face darken like still water, Zhang Bairen smiled and said, "See? This is the gap between us and Chen Changsheng."
"He never lets emotion cloud his thinking."
"The Immortal Domain's methods are so powerful that doing things beyond our understanding would be no problem at all."
"When the whole world is your enemy, preserving a spark is a choice many people would make."
"We would do it, and so would those lucky ones from the Immortal Domain."
"So is there anything wrong with my conjecture that the Four Madmen were among the few survivors of that group?"
Facing Zhang Bairen's smiling face, the Sword Ancestor said coldly, "So what if the Four Madmen were fish that slipped through the net?"
"So many people failed to pry the Immortal Domain's whereabouts out of them back then. Do you think we could succeed?"
"Besides, those people were merely lucky ones who stumbled into the Immortal Domain. How could they possibly know where it was?"
The Sword Ancestor tried to refute Zhang