At the Flat Peach Gathering, Nangong Zheng, a mighty cultivator of the Human Race who had narrowly escaped the Bronze Immortal Palace, recounted all he had witnessed inside. Most astonishing were the Ghost Face Mark that seemed both to weep and to smile, the immortal blood and dismembered corpse, the heaven and earth xuanhuang essence, and the lingering traces of a True Dragon Immortal Divine Medicine.
As he spoke of these things, he brought up another secret from tens of thousands of years ago.
Roughly seventy thousand years earlier, one of the Ancient Sages had entered the Bronze Immortal Palace and carried out an extremely incomplete, dismembered corpse on his back.
Sadly, although he had struggled his way out of the Immortal Palace, he immediately dissolved into a pool of thick blood. The corpse fragments, suspected to belong to an Immortal, were divided among six powers: the Ji Family, the Jiang Family, the Yaoguang Holy Land, the Jade Pool Holy Land, the Feng Clan-the oldest clan in the Eastern Wasteland-and the Tianxuan Holy Land, which had been destroyed six thousand years ago.
Flesh suspected to come from a Great Emperor's corpse, or even an Immortal Corpse, was naturally a peerless treasure. Back then, the six holy lands had flatly denied obtaining such a divine object.
Now, tens of thousands of years later, when Nangong Zheng brought up that rumor again, the six holy lands readily admitted it. They had long since absorbed all its benefits, so revealing the secret no longer mattered.
Combining this with Nangong Zheng's account of what he had seen inside the Immortal Palace, everyone now surmised that the corpse fragments had been left behind during the Ruthless Great Emperor's transformation. Whether the Olden and Modern Times' First Ruthless One had successfully lived another lifetime remained unknown.