Daochen sneered. "They're nothing but a pile of corpses. They all called themselves mighty experts, yet weren't they slaughtered by Pangu in the end?"
Heavenly Dao Hongjun's expression was grave. "I wondered about this back then. How did Pangu open heaven and earth? I strongly suspect his strength had already reached the Heavenly Dao Realm, but he rushed to open heaven before stabilizing his cultivation. That was what led to his fall."
"He didn't die of exhaustion at all. More likely, after opening heaven and earth, his cultivation fell and his body collapsed."
Daochen looked at him in confusion. He had experienced the River of Time himself. How had the three thousand Gods and Devils been slain back then?
He had experienced it firsthand.
Could that state back then have been the Heavenly Dao Realm?
But why hadn't I felt anything?
"Impossible. I experienced the River of Time back then too. I didn't feel all that powerful at the time. I was probably only in the Saint Realm."
Heavenly Dao Hongjun looked at him, somewhat bewildered. "That's impossible. I personally experienced the calamity of the World-Opening. I even nearly perished on the spot. Even now, I'm not confident I could defeat someone with that aura. How could he have been merely in the Saint Realm?"
Daochen grew even more confused. His senses would not lie to him, and he also felt that Heavenly Dao Hongjun would not lie to him now.
But could something have been wrong with his experience back then?
At that moment, the Lord of Fate spoke, sounding a little embarrassed. "Ahem. Actually, I'm not sure how to explain this, but the River of Time and Space you experienced back then, Demon Emperor, was something I deliberately fabricated. It imitated the true River of Time, but in