Taken aback by the story, Severin asked frantically, "Could you elaborate on his exploits all those years ago?"
Severin's eager expression felt rather peculiar to Ferland but he did not pay it much attention. He cleared his throat and continued, "I was merely a young warrior king at that time, so I don't know much about him. However, rumors suggest that he appeared in the Starry Sky Battlespace out of nowhere and left his name on its stone tablet. Apparently, he killed numerous powerhouses and supposedly acquired a rather special tower-shaped item. Ever since then, he grew even stronger and took less than ten years to progress from paragon to supreme paragon. Even those from sacred lands were suffocated by his energy."
Ferland then shook his head before adding, "That's all I know."
Severin became more and more convinced that the person Ferland spoke of was the Old Wacko. Such actions, like taking a female paragon with him, was characteristic of the man's antics.
Old Wacko's drunken boasts about slicing open the sky in one slash and killing several hundred thousand practitioners in one go came to mind. Though Severin initially dismissed all that as the ramblings of an inebriated savant, Ferland's account seemed to bring more credibility to those stories.
Later, after Severin entered into the Skyblue Sect and discovered that Wuhlricht was the Old Wacko's junior, he was told that the Old Wacko had arrived in Bleurealm and was being targeted by one of Bleurealm's strong forces. He initially wondered if the Old Wacko had done some despicably heinous act. It was Ferland's explanation that provided more context.
As Severin contemplated, Ferland shared another titbit. "Rumor has it that he revisited the Starry Sky Battlespace before ascending to immortality because he lost something there. Then, the Yaochi Sacred Land's sect leader broke through the void formation to enter the Starry Sky Battlespace, and his aim was to explore what that unaffiliated practitioner left behind. However, he returned with serious injuries and could only utter the word 'divinity'."
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