"Hmm?"
In Ganzhou City, dozens of miles away, deep within a secret chamber beneath the Gathering Treasure Pavilion, a pair of eyes slowly opened.
"These two days, the Nine Provinces have been rather unsettled... In a single day, two Ascension-level figures have emerged... and both vanished like fleeting blossoms..."
"That moment is drawing near... More and more variables are appearing, but how much they will affect the final outcome remains unknown..."
With that, those eyes slowly closed again...
Inside the inn room, which no longer had a roof.
A hazy mist of water enveloped A Dai, gradually restoring strength to her weakened body.
Propping herself up and slowly sitting upright, A Dai looked in disbelief at Luo Jun, then at Long Hui's headless corpse lying before him.
"Just who... are you?"
Luo Jun did not answer her question. Instead, he smiled and placed Long Hui's head on the table. "Your master is dead. What are you planning to do now?"
"Master..." A Dai sighed. "Rather than a master, he was more like my father..."
"I heard that he raised you?" Luo Jun asked curiously.
"Though I am what you call a Polluter, I was actually born in [Martial World]." A Dai sighed. "My mother was once an explorer of the Yuan Cultivation Society. An accident left her stranded in [Martial World], where she became 'polluted.' Only after she fully awakened did she discover that she was already pregnant."
"An explorer who became polluted and gave birth in [Martial World]?" Luo Jun looked at A Dai in surprise. "Your background truly is unusual. So you've never been to the Main World?"
A Dai Shook her head. "My earliest knowledge of the Main World came from my mother. Though she had already awakened, unlike the other Awakened, she bore no hostility toward