Yuan Yan had no interest in what Xi He, Changxi, and Purple Light revealed about Jiufeng's ability to foresee the future. He already knew about it—and knew even more than they did.
What surprised and interested him instead were the powerful figures and secrets from the Calamity of Ferocious Beasts that they mentioned.
Though he had already become a Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal and then attained sainthood, he truly knew little about the powerful figures and secrets of that era.
After all, the Heavenly Dao had yet to emerge back then, so its records were sparse.
As for traveling upstream along the River of Time to take a look?
Any Great Firmament Golden Immortal could conceal themselves. Without a precise point in time and location—and a willingness to offend the powerful figures of that era by forcibly breaking through their concealment—he would uncover no secrets at all.
Even if he did see something, it might be false.
Suppose someone traveled upstream along the River of Time to a point before his birth.
At first, they would see only a blurred, chaotic scene. If they tried to force their way through it, he would certainly sense them and strike back across time and space, unless their cultivation far surpassed his.
Even if their methods were extraordinary enough to break through unnoticed, they would see only four masses of primordial Yin-Yang and Five Elements origin born alongside the Primordial Gourd Vine. They would not see that his true body was the Primordial Gourd Vine, or that Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had emerged when he severed his three selves and anchored each in a section of the vine.
If he could play such tricks with the River of Time, other powerful figures surely could too!
Then how did Xi