Chen Xu fell silent.
He raised his head to look at Si Chen, finally realizing something.
"You..."
He had been trembling with fear just moments ago, yet now he suddenly smiled. "...You don't know anything, do you?"
Si Chen's expression did not change, but Chen Xu knew he had guessed correctly.
"Ha... ha... hahahahaha!!!" He laughed even louder.
The four Immortal Kings-Bai He, Chen Yong, Yue Hua, and Mo Xuan-frowned, unable to understand why this Immortal Emperor was suddenly behaving this way.
Normally, they rarely even had the chance to meet an Immortal Emperor, let alone see one lose his composure like this.
Chen Xu laughed for a long while before slowly speaking. "An Immortal Emperor..."
"You're an Immortal Emperor, yet you never lived through that era?"
They had entertained many theories among themselves.
The one most widely accepted... was that Si Chen was a reclusive Immortal Emperor from Ancient Times, indifferent to worldly affairs and uninvolved in its conflicts.
Since they had taken control of the Immortal Realm, no imperial tribulation had ever descended again. That was the best proof.
His attack on the Mortal Forbidden Zone was either to call them to account for what had happened in Ancient Times, or to serve some other secret purpose.
The one possibility they had never considered was that this man actually knew nothing.
"You don't even know what you're up against... yet you dared move against the Mortal Forbidden Zone?"
Beside them, Jiang Ling had yet to recover from the looks her "parents" had given her.
Those things she had never been able to uncover, those things she had never dared imagine, those things that had turned her from an innocent girl into a cold-faced god of slaughter...
Ten thousand years of hatred, and now her enemy was right before