At the sight before them, not only Song Tianshu and the others, but even Xu Taiping himself was astonished.
"Lotus Eye, just one bow made the True Martial Black-Eagle Banner withdraw its Heavenly Might. What exactly did you do to Taiping?"
In an exceedingly rare move, Fairy Lingyue even addressed the Lotus Eye through her divine sense.
What surprised Xu Taiping was that this time, the Lotus Eye actually answered Fairy Lingyue-
"Chu Lingyue, by the time of your first reincarnation, the Five Emperors had already ascended, correct?"
By that reckoning, this should have been Fairy Lingyue's first conversation with the Lotus Eye.
"Correct."
Fairy Lingyue did not dispute it.
She was very curious about why the Lotus Eye had suddenly brought this up.
"The last time I emerged from the Wilderness happened to be on the eve of the Five Emperors ending the chaos in the Shangqing Realm and opening up these Five Heavens."
A hint of reminiscence colored the Lotus Eye's voice.
"What of it?"
Fairy Lingyue was somewhat puzzled.
In the Shangqing Realm, it was nothing unusual for cultivators to bring a Yin God out of the Wilderness and then awaken them.
"The one who awakened me that time was a general under the True Martial Great Emperor, and he had personally wielded this Black-Eagle Banner on the Heaven-Demon Battlefield. Now that the Black-Eagle Banner senses my presence within Xu Taiping, it naturally withdraws its Heavenly Might."
The Lotus Eye explained it to Fairy Lingyue as though it were nothing.
"Someone who could wield a banner for the True Martial Great Emperor... could the one who awakened you back then have been one of the Four Divine Generals?"
Fairy Lingyue asked in great surprise.
"That is indeed what later generations called him, but I still prefer calling