"When I entered a Blood-Colored Region, I found a lot of experts gathered there. There were no fewer than three figures like that bastard Zhao Qingcheng, who had been renowned during the Dao Decline Era."
"Although they hadn't attained perfection in any single Dao and become Supreme Powerhouses, they were still much stronger than ordinary Reincarnators and Old Antiques. They had recovered to the Ninth Step long ago."
As Tie Zhu burned sacrificial offerings, its injuries healed visibly, and it spoke indignantly. "If I hadn't fallen for that person's trick back then and been trapped beneath the Dragon-Locking Well, I'd be on the same level as those bastards. Recovering to the Ninth Step in this era wouldn't have been difficult."
"Whose trick did you fall for?" Jiang Chen asked at just the right moment.
Tie Zhu's face immediately fell at the question.
"Dad, my own dear dad!"
"Even if you asked me about the Nine Luminaries Black-Scaled Python Clan's closely guarded secrets, or what Second Uncle did back then, I'd tell you everything I knew without holding anything back. I wouldn't dare conceal a thing."
"But, this... this... this."
Under Jiang Chen's increasingly piercing, interrogative gaze, Tie Zhu grew even more dramatic, crying and wailing.
"Dad, I really can't talk about this!"
"There are some things in this world that are taboo. The most I can tell you is that, back then, certain beings were no different from myths even in the eyes of Unusual Persons."
"They truly existed, yet they were like a dream. Even some people who had interacted with them would think their memories were mistaken when they recalled it after some time had passed."
Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes at that.
This son of his had always talked big. Whenever it mentioned Supreme Powerhouses, it was