After Lü Daoxuan said this.
Xu Taiping and Fairy Lingyue both remained silent for a long time.
At last, Xu Taiping's murmur broke the deathly silence-
"Could the True Martial Great Emperor have been willing to take in the remnants of the Taixuan Sect precisely because he already knew about this Great Void Calamity?"
Fairy Lingyue recalled the conversation between the Lotus Eye and Xu Taiping back then and murmured:
"The Lotus Eye said that Zhao Xuantan, the Black Tiger Altar General, one of the Four Divine Generals under Zhenwu, ultimately failed to ascend because of a catastrophe that began in Sumeru, and instead fell in this world."
"Looking at it now, could he too have died in this Great Void Calamity?"
As she spoke, Fairy Lingyue looked toward Lü Daoxuan through the Bronze Gate beside them.
"Oh?" Lü Daoxuan sounded somewhat surprised at her words.
"To think you even knew this secret about Divine General Zhao Xuantan."
Lü Daoxuan continued:
"That's right. Judging from the notes the Five Elders left behind, Zhao Xuantan's death was indeed closely connected to this Great Void Calamity."
"But saying he died isn't quite accurate. Even the Five Elders only knew that Zhao Xuantan disappeared while trying to break the calamity. Whether he lived or died, they had no way of knowing."
"And judging from the notes the Five Elders left behind, after Divine General Zhao Xuantan learned of the Great Void Calamity's existence, he fought it alone for at least tens of thousands of years."
"It was only after ten thousand years that his presence vanished completely."
"Apparently, he even sent the Five Elders a letter at the time, hoping to sever the River of Time and thereby utterly erase all traces of the Great Void Calamity's existence in Shangqing."
"But looking at