After "The Final Performance" ended, Yi Chen followed the prison warden straight to the monastery, after which there was no word from him. All anyone knew was that Nash separated and returned to the circus not long afterward, and that there had been no news of Yi Chen during the following two years.
Very few people in the Old World knew what he was doing.
Now, appearing in such a bizarre manner, he was a sight most of the gods from beyond the world and the Sick Ones watching from the local area had never seen before.
What they found most unbelievable was that although Yi Chen's existence could be clearly seen with the naked eye, they could not sense any aura from him. Or rather, the moment their perception drew near him, it would be "killed."
The individuals who relied on special puppets to carry their divine incarnations could sense only that Yi Chen's breathing was perfectly synchronized with the Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable's.
Yi Chen had naturally come this time to win the qualification to go beyond the world—or, more precisely, the qualification to return to the original world.
But he had another purpose as well.
"Senior, is William over there with you?"
Yi Chen's question instead left the Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable baffled. "Why does your way of speaking sound so much like William's now? You're much more polite... What do you mean, 'William is with us'? I was about to ask you the same thing. Where did that brat William go?
"The reason I came here in person to recruit talent was to see how you young people have been doing.
"As soon as I arrived, I immediately searched for the malignant aura that book might emit, but I couldn't sense anything at all. Could it