Li Yun's mind was instantly shaken, but he quickly reacted.

He scoffed, "You mean this Crypt is the Illusory Immortal Palace, and hidden here is the supreme Immortal Arts, the Great Fate Art?"

"Isn't that nonsense?"

"How does this place look like an Immortal Palace? Do you think I can believe this?"

As he spoke.

The two had already walked along the Crypt corridor into a spacious hall.

In this hall, a large number of powerhouses had already gathered. Each one's aura was as vast as the abyss and sea, and the weakest among them were in the Dao Embryo Realm.

Moving up, the Original Dao Realm and Divine Martial Realm were also not uncommon.

The most powerful one was a young man in white sitting at the front of the hall. This person was surprisingly the mysterious young man who had appeared in White Emperor City before - Young Master Ye!

Li Yun hadn't seen this Young Master Ye and didn't know who he was at all.

But he immediately understood that this person should be the real boss behind the Heavens Mandate Sect.

"So it's him, the Eldest Young Master of Mingye City, Ye Shenfeng!"

"Li Yun, be careful of this person!"

Just then, the voice of the Yunya Saintess sounded in Li Yun's ear. Just by listening to the voice, one could tell that the Yunya Saintess was truly full of apprehension towards this Ye Shenfeng.

As expected, after arriving at the hall, Xue Wuwo proactively stepped forward and knelt before Ye Shenfeng.

"Master, this subordinate has brought Li Yun."

His expression was extremely respectful.

Li Yun's eyes immediately narrowed slightly.

"So it's the Eldest Young Master of Mingye City. I was wondering who it was. No wonder I couldn't find out the true controller of the Heavens Mandate Sect even in the Sky-Splitting Dynasty."

Ye Shenfeng waved his hand, signaling Xue Wuwo to stand up and step aside.

Then he smiled indifferently, "Li Yun, honestly, when I learned that the White Emperor Family was dealt a blow by the Four Great Evils, I thought I would never see you again. You were very likely to be purged along with the White Emperor Family by the Lie Tian Royal Clan."

"I didn't expect you to become the Lord of the Heavenly Ancient King Mountain. Not only were you not dragged down by the White Emperor Family, but the White Emperor Family instead borrowed your light and escaped the death trap."

"This makes me have to re-examine you seriously."

"It seems the Reversing Fate Art you obtained at the Heavenly Martial Sect back then truly allowed you to undergo a transformation beyond ordinary people!"

"In this way, you can be considered qualified to cooperate with me!"

Li Yun curled his lip, "Cooperate on what? To jointly seek the supreme Immortal Arts of the Illusory Immortal Palace, the Great Fate Art?"

"Of course not. I don't even know where the Illusory Immortal Palace is, so how could I seek that supreme Immortal Arts? If I said that, you wouldn't believe it either."

"So Xue Wuwo was talking to me for a long time just now, actually trying to fool me?"

"That's not right either!"

"Although this place is not the Illusory Immortal Palace, it is also related to the Illusory Immortal Palace..."

"Please sit down first!"

"After listening to a piece of ancient secret history I tell you, you will know the cause and effect."

Ye Shenfeng made a gesture of invitation. Li Yun glanced at the other party, didn't stand on ceremony, and sat down in a nearby seat.

"You should know the origin of the Heavenly Ancient Continent, right..."

"What are you referring to?"

"The Heavenly Ancient Continent was born from the Saint Heaven Realm. Have you heard of that?"

"Yes, but I don't know if it's true or false."

"I can tell you clearly, this is true. The Saint Heaven Realm is vast and boundless. The entire Heavenly Ancient Continent is merely a drop in the ocean within the Saint Heaven Realm. People who haven't truly been to the Saint Heaven Realm simply cannot comprehend how vast that Heaven Grade world truly is; they can't even imagine it."

"Super Great Worlds contain super Immortal Arts and Great Dao. This is also the fundamental reason why countless powerhouses in the myriad worlds sharpen their heads to squeeze into the Saint Heaven Realm!"

"However, no matter how large or strong the Saint Heaven Realm is, becoming an Immortal Emperor is already the limit."

"After reaching the Immortal Emperor stage, it means reaching the end of the immortal path. Throughout the long years, countless Immortal Emperors ultimately died of old age in the Saint Heaven Realm like mortals, turning into a handful of yellow earth."

"Until one day, the Illusory Immortal Palace appeared."

"No one knew where this Immortal Palace came from, only that its appearance instantly ignited the entire Saint Heaven Realm."

"It is said that on that day, all the endless beings in the entire Saint Heaven Realm, regardless of race, heard a mysterious whisper!"

"This whisper was like being forcefully stuffed into their minds. Including those Immortal Emperors, no one could resist this whisper... On that day, all living beings fell into a state like being drunk on old wine."

"Dazed and confused, everything was unreal."

"Until they woke up, everyone understood one thing: Immortal Emperor was not the end of the immortal path, and the fated opportunity to break through the Immortal Emperor bottleneck was within the Illusory Immortal Palace."

"Only by using the power of the fate of all living beings could one break through their own ultimate fate... "

"And so, they went mad with killing!"

"The entire Saint Heaven Realm went mad with killing. Immortal Sovereigns killed each other indiscriminately, Immortal Sovereigns killed each other indiscriminately... All cultivators, regardless of race or faction, were killing indiscriminately, all for the sake of obtaining a ticket to enter the Illusory Immortal Palace!"

"As a result, the Saint Heaven Realm was shattered!"

"It was that great battle that led to the birth of the Heavenly Ancient Continent. The so-called Heavenly Ancient Continent is a fragment of the shattered Saint Heaven Realm after that insane great battle."

Li Yun was deeply shaken as he listened.

He was unable to witness that great battle firsthand, but he could vaguely imagine how insane that battle that swept across the entire Saint Heaven Realm was.

With his current strength, if he appeared in that great battle, he would probably just be a weak ant. Any random battlefield shockwave sweeping over would directly reduce him to ashes, right?

With great difficulty, Li Yun finally suppressed the turmoil in his heart.

"How do you know such a secret history?"

"And you said this Crypt is related to the Illusory Immortal Palace. Are you kidding? If that were really the case, wouldn't the Heavenly Ancient Continent have been torn apart by the powerhouses of the Saint Heaven Realm long ago..."

Upon hearing this, Ye Shenfeng's expression suddenly became very strange.

It was clear that there was still a hint of a bitter smile.

"Do you know?"

"Our Ye Clan was originally from the Saint Heaven Realm! The ancestral land of the Ye Clan back then was on that shattered fragment!"

"I can even say that, in fact, a large part of what is now called the Heavenly Ancient Continent was once the ancestral land of our Ye Clan!"

Upon hearing this, Li Yun's eyes immediately widened, "No way, that unlucky?"

"With this collapse, your entire Ye Clan was directly shattered out of the Saint Heaven Realm?"

Ye Shenfeng glanced at Li Yun.

He said faintly, "Shouldn't this be a kind of luck? If the ancestral land of my Ye Clan hadn't just happened to be entirely shattered out of the Saint Heaven Realm, do you think I, Ye Shenfeng, would still exist now?"

"I'm afraid the entire Ye Clan would have completely disappeared."

Li Yun was suddenly somewhat speechless. If understood this way, it seemed to make some sense.

But why did he still feel like laughing a little?