"Wh-what?!"
Ji Yuan was not the only one shocked by those words.
Dong Qian and Dugu Qing, standing beside him, were just as stunned.
After all, who in the Human Realm had not heard of Bai Ze?
In the era after the Immortal Court, he and the Demon Deity had joined forces to conquer the Demon God Continent. The Demon Race had once honored him as the Demon Master. Rumor even had it that the Demon Deity had gained dominion over the continent only because Bai Ze had no interest in building a power of his own.
Otherwise, who ruled the Demon God Continent would have been another matter entirely.
Of course, those were only unofficial tales.
According to recorded history, however, the plan to have the Demon Deity take control of the Demon God Continent had come from Bai Ze himself.
In short, Bai Ze had played an enormous part in it.
Even now, though the White Ze Clan had withdrawn from the world, it still stood alone above every power beneath the Three Sacred Clans.
If its members ever reemerged, even the Three Sacred Clans would surely send people to visit them.
...By that reckoning, Bai Ze must have reached at least the Tribulation Transcendence Stage back then, perhaps even the Mahayana Stage.
Yet even a mighty figure like him had fallen beneath the River of Time?
Ji Yuan could not help recalling what the Ghost Envoy had told him years ago: the Ascension Gate had vanished, and the path to heaven had been severed.
Even the Mahayana Stage terrestrial immortals of the Human Realm could no longer ascend.
Perhaps that was why even a cultivator as powerful as Bai Ze could only pass away in meditation.
As Ji Yuan pondered this, he saw Bai Ze wave a