He had completed the [Simulator] mission in Twinwood Village.
He was back at the Ninth Rank.
Jiang Qiao's strength put him among the elite, not just in this timeline, but even in the Supernatural World of the future.
The secrets of Locust Tree Alley were no longer something he needed to take seriously.
He was mostly just satisfying his curiosity.
Yet he had never expected this.
A secret he happened to hear from Chen Henian revealed that the evil spirit in Locust Tree Alley had actually grown a fruit, and inside that fruit was a map leading to the Immortal World!
The Immortal World?
Almost instantly, Jiang Qiao thought of the vision he had seen in the supernatural place in Twinwood Village.
That world he suspected was the source of the Abyss.
That was precisely why.
He had come back.
"Is this the map?" Jiang Qiao held the heart-shaped fruit and squeezed gently. It immediately burst apart, dropping a small roll of cloth.
"Why does this remind me of hiding a message in a fish's belly?"
"Great Chu shall rise, and Chen Sheng shall be king?"
Muttering to himself, Jiang Qiao unfolded the cloth. Some lines were drawn on it, and it did indeed look like a map.
And although the map was crudely drawn.
He could just about make sense of it.
"This is the coastline, and these are islands... this island looks familiar..."
"It's Taiwan."
"The dotted line heading down..."
Jiang Qiao narrowed his eyes, studying the map. "This dotted line should be the sailing route."
"Looks like it goes all the way into the Pacific Ocean."
"But is there a place like this in the Pacific Ocean?"
He looked at the end of the dotted line and compared it with the real-world map in his memory. He