At first, the Heavenly Beast Saint remained stubborn and refused to reveal anything to Xiao Yan.
But after Xiao Yan repeatedly urged his heavenly flames to burn his soul, he soon became obedient.
How could the agony of heavenly flames burning one's soul be so easily endured?
At that point, death would have been a release for him instead.
After a round of interrogation, Xiao Yan and Yao Lao learned quite a few secrets about Mulan Valley.
As it turned out, the Heavenly Beast Saint had indeed founded Mulan Valley, but the "Heavenly Beast Saint" they had fought was not the real one.
He was actually Hun Qianshang, a Three-Star Dou Sheng of the Hun Clan.
A thousand years ago, he had gone out on a mission. While passing Mulan Valley, he coveted its body-refining art and slipped into this Spatial Secret Realm.
He had assumed that, with the Heavenly Beast Saint already dead, no one in Mulan Valley could stop him.
Never had he expected the Heavenly Beast Saint's remnant soul to be attached to Mulan Valley's inheritance stone tablet.
Although the Heavenly Beast Saint had died, he had been a Seven-Star Dou Saint in life. With Hun Qianshang caught off guard, his sneak attack had inflicted grievous injuries.
An earth-shaking battle had erupted between them. In the end, Hun Qianshang had won by a narrow margin, but only his soul had escaped destruction, falling into a deep slumber.
He had slept for centuries. When Hun Qianshang finally awoke, the world had changed beyond recognition.
Upon awakening, his soul power had been merely at the Dou Emperor level. Without the key to the Spatial Secret Realm, he had been trapped inside for another hundred years.
To make matters worse, Mulan Valley had declined, and no one entered the secret