Chen Nan nodded in agreement. Once one's cultivation reaches that level, there are truly no rivals in the mortal realm, unless one encounters an incredible being like the nameless god or demon in a deathly abyss.
"This is truly a nightmare for me. I haven't met my match in nearly a hundred years, but this battle has completely shattered my confidence in myself." The old monster said somewhat excitedly, "Being defeated by that great demon is one thing, after all, I know a little about his background, but being defeated by two cultivators who haven't shown themselves from beginning to end is truly humiliating!"
"What do you mean?" Chen Nan asked.
"You should have seen the Tai Chi diagram and the jade ruyi. Those two magical treasures are definitely the most precious possessions of two highly skilled cultivators, whose cultivation levels even surpass those of great demons. The two treasures exude incredibly terrifying fluctuations, completely enveloping everyone within them..."
It turned out that the jade ruyi and the Taiji diagram emitted a powerful force field that trapped everyone inside. The old monster managed to escape only by desperately trying to break free. As for the others, some fled like him, while others were unwilling to give up the divine objects and continued to fight the great demon and the two mysterious magical treasures.
Chen Nan was astonished. He knew the details of the Taiji Diagram and the Jade Ruyi. They were not magical treasures of cultivators at all. They were the "active volcanoes" within him!
The old monster sighed, calmed his agitated emotions, and said, "That day, I seemed to see those two magical treasures fly up from not far from you. Could you sense the presence of those two people?"
Chen Nan found it amusing. The old monster had been prejudiced from the start, always assuming that the two magical treasures belonged to a highly skilled cultivator. He would never have imagined that the Jade Ruyi and the Taiji Diagram possessed independent consciousness and resided within him.
"I didn't get the unearthed artifacts, I lost Houyi's Bow, and I was seriously injured. Alas!" The old monster sighed, "I know there must be some unimaginably powerful beings in this world. But I never thought I would have to fight one. However, being able to escape from such an unparalleled expert is a kind of luck!"
The old monster summoned Chen Nan for a talk because he saw the jade ruyi and the Taiji diagram fly up beside him and wanted to find out if he could sense the aura of their owners. Clearly, he couldn't get any information from Chen Nan.
However, Chen Nan had some doubts. He felt that the old monster might have seen something, and perhaps he already knew that the two magical treasures were related to him, but was just pretending to be ignorant.
Thinking of this, Chen Nan became more wary and then began to inquire about the details of that day. Unfortunately, the old monster had been entangled with the group for half the night and was now seriously injured and on the verge of death.
He struggled with all his might to break free of the powerful force field. He then recuperated for three days in an ancient cave in a mountain and did not follow the others, so he had no idea what happened afterward.
"Senior, do you know the origin of that unearthed divine artifact?"
Hearing Chen Nan raise his jade palm, the old monster narrowed his eyes into slits, through which a glint of light shone. He said with great resentment, "This divine object may really have a great background, but it never fell into my hands. Otherwise, it wouldn't be impossible to use its power to break through life and death."
The old monster's face was filled with regret. His eyes shone with a mixture of despondency, resentment, and anger. He sighed deeply and said, "If it were just an ordinary treasure, how could it have alarmed those ancient monsters who had long since disappeared from the world? Even Western angels descended to earth. One can imagine how extraordinary this treasure is! If I'm not mistaken, this jade hand might be the legendary left hand of God!"
"The Left Hand of God?!" Chen Nan's face was full of shock and confusion.
"Yes, it is very likely the legendary Left Hand of God. I think that apart from me, very few people in the world know about this. When I was young, I traveled in the Western Continent and met an elderly mage from the Church of Light. In a drunken moment, he revealed some little-known secrets. Of course, they were just fragments. But if they were to spread, they would be enough to shock the world. One of the fragments was the 'Left Hand of God incident'."
Chen Nan was truly captivated. His intuition told him that the Left Hand of God might be connected to the earth-shattering secret of the gods' disappearance ten thousand years ago.
The old monster spoke in a low voice: "Legend has it that in ancient times—well, the timeline might be wrong, it could be even more ancient than the ancient times, perhaps when the gods had just appeared—the God of Light and a few other demons joined forces to fight against an inconceivable being in the world..."
"Wait a minute..." Chen Nan interrupted the old monster, saying, "Among the most powerful local gods in the West, there seems to be one who is the God of Light. Could it be him? And that Heavenly Demon, he seems to be one of the most powerful demon gods in Eastern legends, right?"
"Yes, that's right." The old monster nodded and said, "Back then, the God of Light's might shook the Three Realms of the West, and the Heavenly Demon subdued the Six Paths of the East. Although they no longer exist, their names have been passed down, and the God of Light and the Heavenly Demon have become titles. Now, in the West, the god called the God of Light must be one of the most powerful gods, and the same is true in the East. The one called the Heavenly Demon must be a demon with unparalleled power, almost an invincible symbol in the Six Paths."
"Oh," Chen Nan nodded, and asked, "Which era of the God of Light and the Heavenly Demon are you referring to?"
"As I said, the information I received was only fragmented pieces, and I don't know exactly which era it referred to."
"Oh," Chen Nan was not disappointed. He knew that the more significant and ancient an event was, the less likely it was to be passed down. Presumably, the secrets that the old monster knew must have occurred thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago.
"Please continue, senior."
"That old Western sorcerer told me... Legend has it that the Eastern Demon God and the Western God of Light joined forces to fight an unimaginable being, a battle so fierce that the heavens and earth trembled, and the seas surged. In the end, the God of Light was shattered to pieces, and the Demon God's whereabouts became unknown. A war involving a supreme god is unimaginably brutal and cruel. Although the old sorcerer's account was limited, it's not hard to imagine how earth-shattering the battle must have been. The old sorcerer said that after the war, the angels collected light..."
The jade-like remains of the God of Light after his Nirvana, but not all of them have been gathered. The angels once said that if they could collect all the scattered remains across the realms, they could resurrect the God of Light!