"You know who he is?"
The old man and the middle-aged man wore identical expressions. In truth, they too had vaguely ascertained the source of contamination's identity. After all, those ages of sacrificial worship were practically an explicit indication.
But thinking was one thing. When it came to actually defining the matter and confirming that End of the Path being's origins and background, they did not dare settle on a conclusion.
Because they did not know whether that would be good or bad.
After all, an Emperor was supreme. Matters involving his life, death, and past would undoubtedly implicate far too much. Moreover, the one before them had already become a source of contamination. Heaven knew whether the sinister Calamity Land had played a role in his fall.
If they allowed him to "reappear in the world" and reclaim his former blood and glory, even if he existed only in others' thoughts, he would no longer remain unremembered and unthought of. The people and events connected to him, their causes and effects, would all revive in an instant.
Once the sinister Calamity Land noticed, or the enemies responsible for his fall became entangled with his threads of fate again, it would spell a great catastrophe.
"Say no more, and think no more of it. In The Heavens today, apart from our master, all the other supreme beings are fighting beyond the Myriad Worlds. They have been gone for more than several epochs. Returning is not something they can do in an instant." The old man stopped the woman with a stern warning.
"But he is right before us. If..." Naturally, the woman understood what took priority. Yet whenever she thought of how that source of contamination had undergone destruction and rebirth twice and still remained in the world, she felt