When Xiang Yang followed the young girl to Fanglin Garden, he saw only two people seated beside the square table laden with delicacies. Neither spoke, and the place felt quiet and desolate.
Xiang Yang had already met Li Xiaolin, disguised as Cangyun Mountain Villa's chief steward. The other man was presumably the expert of the Earth Demon lineage who had killed the Purple Robe Chief Constable and was now posing as Cangyun Mountain Villa's Manor Lord, Shen Ao.
Not bad. By seniority, this man should be Ziyuan, Linglong, and Yunhai's martial uncle. He had long since attained the Heavenly Man Realm, with deep reserves and a solid foundation—the bearing of a great master indeed.
Though Gu Shentong possessed the Human-God Fusion body-strengthening secret art, was himself a peerless genius, and had cultivated the invincible Ten Divine Fingers, he was ultimately a hero in his twilight years. He had advanced through clever shortcuts and could not compare to this man.
The instant Xiang Yang saw him, light burst from his eyes. Like iron drawn to a magnet, he could not look away, completely sinking into the world within his mind as he frantically deduced the other man's martial cultivation from what he saw.
The martial path had only four great realms: Houtian, Xiantian, Heavenly Man, and Dao Attainment. Perhaps there was also the Shattered Realm, which had not appeared since time immemorial.
Setting aside Houtian and Xiantian, the Heavenly Man Realm was a complex, ever-changing realm. Its distinctions were blurrier than those of Xiantian, yet the scope it encompassed was far broader.
The Heavenly Man Realm had many characteristics. For instance, one could achieve Primordial Spirit Ejection and connect with the void, no longer weak and helpless like a fish out of water. This was crucial; most reincarnated experts were actually