Wang Shouzhe, the Taishang Immortal Emperor, and the current Hong sat together, drinking tea and chatting. Before they knew it, Hong had begun recounting some of the history of the Immortal Spirit Realm.
Naturally, he was mainly telling it for Wang Shouzhe's benefit. The Taishang Immortal Emperor had heard these things hundreds of thousands of years ago.
"Before the first Immortal-Devil War, there was scarcely any concept of time." The gaunt old man Hong spoke in a weathered, unhurried tone. "Back then, the ancient gods of our Immortal Spirit Realm were rather homebound. Their primary living area was the Tianyuan Origin Sea and its surroundings."
"The innate spiritual energy here was abundant, with countless heavenly treasures and powerful living beings. Moreover, as time passed, fewer and fewer new ancient gods were naturally born between heaven and earth, and thus a peculiar balance was achieved."
"Ancient God Pan was the strongest among the many ancient gods of that era. He occupied this patch of land closest to the Realm Gate, where spiritual energy was densest. Of course, there was no Realm Gate here at the time. There was only an endless sea of energy, dense beyond measure."
Wang Shouzhe listened intently.
The era of the ancient gods was simply too distant from the present. Only a few scant records remained of that time, and what he knew was exceedingly limited.
It was said that the ancient gods of that age had all been born of heaven and nurtured by earth, naturally conceived into existence. Because their origins were incomparably powerful, their lifespans were often terrifyingly long. They were all naturally long-lived species, utterly different from short-lived humans.
Even merely imagining it casually, he could sense that it must have been an age where a hundred races stood side by side and