Kunlun Mountain

Daoist Kun Yuan's attitude was a signal to Yu Chen.

He glanced around, pondered for a moment, then asked a rather taboo question. "You were imprisoned because..."

"It was not Xuanyuan." Daoist Kun Yuan denied one possibility before Yu Chen could finish.

"What happened to the human race back then was, at most, the fuse. It only looked as though Xuanyuan gained the most in the end. But whether he was truly the greatest beneficiary or merely the one made to bear the blame is hard to say."

Having said this, Daoist Kun Yuan looked to the heavens, then down at the earth. "Whether these two are the same two who perished together back then is open to debate."

Yu Chen sucked in a sharp breath.

All along, he had believed that the reason the current Five Gods of the human race could rise to power was because the first Heavenly Emperor had been dragged into the Underworld by the Earth Mother, who had fallen into a state of death, forcing him to undergo a reincarnation.

During the Earth Mother's death, part of her divine power, carrying a small portion of her flesh, had scattered into the land and transformed into numerous earth deities. More of her divine power and flesh had turned into the present Underworld earth during her descent.

Her divine soul had remained in the Underworld, becoming the greatest ghostly deity there.

Yet now, Daoist Kun Yuan was saying that the Heavenly Emperor who had returned through reincarnation, as well as the Earth Mother in the Underworld, might not be the originals.

The implications were enough to fill everyone who knew the truth with terror.

Yu Chen did not pursue the matter further. Instead, he asked how many beings like the black-robed man existed in the Underworld.