"The Three Fiends? The Cultivation Patriarch?"
Chen Cuo raised an eyebrow. "You mean Primordial Master Guangcheng?"
"How dare you speak his name outright! Aren't you afraid the Heavenly Dao will strike back?" Gao Bai's eyelid twitched. He glanced around warily and braced himself, as though the Void Divine Thunder might appear at any moment.
But several breaths passed without incident.
Bewilderment crossed his face. He silently worked his Mystic Art and focused his sight, examining the surrounding white mist inch by inch. Horror gradually rose in his eyes.
After several more breaths, he looked back at Chen Cuo and lowered his voice. "Your cultivation has already returned to Beyond the Mundane? And you can use it here without the Power of Heaven and Earth rejecting you? Even speaking the Patriarch's name failed to stir the Unseen Laws. Who were you in your Previous Life?"
Chen Cuo smiled. What could he possibly say? He could only keep smiling and let Gao Bai fill in the blanks himself.
Fortunately, Gao Bai did not dwell on it. Once his surprise had passed, he said, "Your cultivation has recovered this far, yet so little of your Past-Life Wisdom has awakened that you don't even know the Three Fiends. Since this place shuts out the outside world, I might as well explain. Tian Wu barely deserves a place among the Three Fiends. His slaughter was so extensive that he made the list, but the other two are of an entirely different order!"
He paused. Seeing Chen Cuo's expression remain unchanged, Gao Bai gave a cold snort and continued. "The second is called the Blood Sea Ancestor. His origins stretch back to the dawn of time. They say he was one of the oldest Ancient Gods, born from a law of heaven and earth, and came