All Who Walk the Mortal World Are Travelers Far from Home

Nian Xin was not one to enjoy a spectacle, but for the first time, this Outer Heavenly Demon from the Azure Sky World stirred her curiosity. Its earlier "true Immortal venerable appearance" had shaken her, especially the astonishingly high-grade Heavenly Immortal Cave Robe worn by "Taoist priest Shuang Jiang." If she could unravel its tens of thousands of warp and weft threads one by one, her cloth-sewing art might rise to another level. With a little more luck, it might even prove to be the Great Dao opportunity she had sought through all her years trapped here.

Nian Xin said, "Your name is Wu Shuang Jiang."

The white-haired boy crouching on the ground looked up. "What else?"

Nian Xin said, "Before his death, Wu Shuang Jiang was a Military Strategist cultivator, not a Daoist priest."

She paused, then added, "Though Wu Shuang Jiang might not necessarily be dead now."

The white-haired boy smiled. "Why a Military Strategist? What's your reasoning?"

Nian Xin said, "Wu Shuang Jiang sounds like Unparalleled General. It's a fine name to throw onto a battlefield. It would be a waste if he weren't a Military Strategist cultivator."

Old Deafy thought this girl truly could not think straight. By her reasoning, since his nickname was Old Deafy and an Old Blind Man lived in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to the south, were they long-lost blood brothers? Then again, if she could think straight, she would not have remained a Cloth Sewer all this time. The most notorious demonic cultivators—the South Sea Lone Rider, the Passerby, the Plague God, the Beautiful Corpse, and others—were all trapped on Dead End Roads they could not leave. But Cloth Sewers, executioners, and Mirror Sellers could turn to other paths midway. With the right arrangements, secretly becoming a genealogy Immortal Master