Purple Firmament Heaven.
Bai He's entire worldview had been shattered. Chen Yong, Mo Xuan, and Yue Hua, the three Immortal Kings of Purple Firmament Heaven, were each paler than the last.
What had they just heard!?
Ancient times, the Other Race, the Demon Realm, the Mortal Forbidden Zone, vessels, seals, the First-Generation Immortal Emperors, Jiang Taibai, Feng Hai...
Every last bit of it sliced into their understanding, one knife stroke after another.
The claim that the Mortal Forbidden Zone existed to "maintain the balance of spiritual energy in the Immortal Realm" was actually true!
And the proposal had come from the First-Generation Sword Emperor, Jiang Taibai!
It was also true that something sinister lurked in the Mortal Forbidden Zone. The scourges left behind by the ancient war were sealed within it!
And those First-Generation Immortal Emperors...
Bai He's mind buzzed.
So Chen Xu before them, and even Immortal Emperor Gu Hong from before, were actually... usurpers?
Wait...
If Si Chen was neither an ancient Immortal Emperor nor a usurper... Bai He looked at Si Chen's back and suddenly felt a chill.
Who... was he, really?
Chen Xu knelt in empty space, but his expression had instead grown calm.
He was like someone who had been telling a story for far too long and finally poured out its heaviest part, only to feel relieved.
Jiang Ling's hand trembled around her short blade. She had been holding herself back all this time.
Ever since Chen Xu began recounting how "Immortal Emperors slaughtered Immortal Lords," how they "used Immortal Lords' corpses to seal the Other Race"...
She had been holding herself back.
But now, she could no longer bear it.
"Then... what about my father?"
"Those Immortal Lords... the Immortal Lords of my father's generation... did you kill them?"
She raised the tip