"Oh?" Sky-Controlling Ape Demon gave Li a meaningful look.
The system hurriedly said, "You can't! This isn't a secret you're allowed to know yet. It would be fine if you only learned secrets of the world at the dimensional level of Havoc in Heaven, but if you learned the secrets of this place, then..."
Sky-Controlling Ape Demon snapped his fingers, and the system instantly fell silent.
Li stared at Sky-Controlling Ape Demon in disbelief. It could suppress the system so easily—just what kind of divine abilities did it possess?!
Sky-Controlling Ape Demon chuckled. "Actually, even if you hadn't asked, I'd planned to tell you. Let's start from the beginning. Back then, after the seven of us brothers fought the Celestial Court, we couldn't be bothered to fight over becoming the Heavenly Emperor, so we all went our separate ways. Then one day, goddamn it, some utterly ridiculous shit happened."
"Utterly ridiculous shit?" Li found it rather amusing. He had never expected Sky-Controlling Ape Demon to speak like that.
"Wasn't it ridiculous? The Boundless Primordial Calamity had actually arrived! It was a bloody catastrophe. During that battle, the entire world we lived in was overturned. All thirty-three layers of heaven shattered, and the six Deva Path Saints all died..."
"Wait!" Li suddenly cried out. "Saints died? How could Saints die?"
A strange smile appeared on Sky-Controlling Ape Demon's face. "Who told you Saints couldn't die?"
Li sat down in Sky-Controlling Ape Demon's palm at once. That was right—who had ever told him Saints could not die? The system? All the system knew was the data it had received when it was created. "Though heaven and earth perish, Saints remain undying." In the end, no one even knew who had said those words.
There were only seven Saints. Whether they could die