"Losers from the last Minor Reckoning?"
Hearing this, Di Yi was reminded of something.
"Yes," the crystal skull said. "I wonder which epoch you lived in, Dao brother?"
"Me? Far earlier than you, perhaps before the heavens were opened." Di Yi could not clearly explain his origins, but he could sense that none of these three beings was as old as he was.
"Before the heavens were opened?"
The crystal skull and the eyeball were both astonished. How ancient an age must that have been? Reckoning backward, even the last Great Reckoning, or the Emperorfall Years, would have come later.
"Perhaps. I'm not very clear on the specifics either. Shamefully enough, I have gaps in my memory, just like you." Di Yi was not entirely certain either, but by some inexplicable perception of his, saying he had existed before the heavens were opened was no exaggeration.
"You have gaps in your memory too, Dao brother? To think that, in a sense, we are fellow sufferers," the crystal skull said. "What caused your misfortune, Dao brother? Did you go to the World Beyond the Dam, or did you experience a Great Reckoning?"
"Neither." Di Yi shook his head and did not answer the question, because if he said it aloud, the crystal skull and the eyeball probably would not be able to accept it.
"Surely it couldn't have been because you tried to Break the King Realm and Become Emperor?" the crystal skull could not help speculating. But after voicing this guess, he laughed, feeling that he had asked about something impossible.
For throughout the ages, every being who had sought to Break the King Realm and Become Emperor had died-and died so thoroughly that not even their lingering obsessions remained.
"Why couldn't it?" Di Yi asked with a smile of