Since the fruits still needed several days to ripen, while everyone sat in meditation and waited, Zhang Shuai recalled what Han Chen had said and asked, "Brother Pang, you are widely experienced. Do you know how the Four Immortal Emperors of the Immortal Realm perished back then?"
Pang Qingfeng opened his eyes at this, pondered for a moment, then answered, "As for their deaths, the most widespread account in the Primordial World is that after the four Immortal Emperors ascended to the Primordial World, for some unknown reason, they clashed fiercely with several Saints in the 'Burial God Ancient Battlefield' in the northwestern region. In the end... they were besieged by several Saints and, after fighting until their strength was exhausted, all perished in the depths of that ancient battlefield. They say that battle shattered heaven and earth and destroyed the laws themselves. Even now, that region remains a death zone."
Pang Qingfeng's account was completely different from Han Chen's! One said they had been beguiled into killing one another or refined by the Myriad Phenomena Saint; the other said they had been killed in a direct siege by several Saints.
Which of these two accounts was closer to the truth?
Was Han Chen deliberately misleading him, or did Pang Qingfeng know only the rumors circulating on the surface?
Zhang Shuai was more inclined to believe Han Chen. As someone who knew the truth, perhaps even a witness to it, Han Chen's account was more credible. But that also meant that the Myriad Phenomena Saint was far from the "highly virtuous and respected" figure Pang Qingfeng and the others believed him to be.
He did not ask any further questions and turned his gaze back to the three fruits in the pool that were about to ripen.
Time passed amid