Alone Again

Wang Chen came back to his senses, then suddenly felt that something was wrong.

What felt wrong was the time.

He had spent a long while farming Bone Skeletons in the wormhole space, consuming quite a bit of the spiritual power stored in the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil. By his estimate, more than an hour had passed.

Yet upon returning to the passageway of the Demon Cave, Wang Chen felt as though only a few breaths had gone by.

The feeling was extraordinarily subtle, not entirely clear or distinct.

But Wang Chen was certain it was not an illusion!

Cultivators usually possessed an accurate sense of time. Even deep underground, where daylight never reached, they would not be mistaken.

This judgment came from their own heartbeat. The deeper one's cultivation, the more accurate it became.

Wang Chen suspected that the flow of time in the wormhole space differed enormously from that in the Demon Cave.

But now was not the time to investigate it. Nor did he wish to reveal the secret that he had once entered the wormhole, lest it invite unnecessary trouble.

So Wang Chen calmly continued with his duties for the day.

After smoothly completing his routine patrol, Wang Chen arrived at the dining hall just in time for the meal.

"Senior Lu!"

To Wang Chen's surprise and delight, he actually saw Lu Yanyi in the dining hall!

Lu Yanyi was the old prison guard who had previously guided him.

In the Demon Cave, Lu Yanyi was a true elder among the prison guards.

Like Wang Chen, many new prison guards had followed him and received this old senior's personal instruction.

Some had therefore lived to see the day they escaped the Demon Cave!

Because of his high prestige, the prison guards respectfully called him "Master