The martial world was awash with disputes and turmoil.
The Yunlun Mountain Range lay beneath the distant night wind.
After slaying Aberrant, something earth-shattering had happened outside, but Xu Xiaoshou knew nothing of it.
All he knew was that he had to play Mu Zixi well and withstand the inevitable interrogation from the Holy Spirit Hall's enforcers.
"Who will it be?"
Curious, Mu Zixi—whom Xu Xiaoshou had transformed into—led Liu Changqing back to the Xu Gang camp with an unwilling expression after putting on a grand performance.
After parting ways with Lei Shuangxing...
Xu Xiaoshou first sent Liu Changqing into the Origin Mansion, then used the Vanishing Art to leave the Ancient Books World and departed the scene of Aberrant's death at once.
Young Master Xu's halt in the march, Mu Zixi's whereabouts.
He had acted all of it out for those who needed to see it.
Logically speaking, while they had still been in the Ancient Books World, Rao Yaoyao's people had already reclaimed control of the Cloud Realm World.
Even if Xu Xiaoshou emerged using the Vanishing Art, the instant he showed himself would have been extremely abrupt.
After all, in the eyes of outsiders, two people suddenly popping up in an empty mountain range was suspicious in itself.
But Ancestor Wuji really was formidable.
The backup he had prepared for them was simply incredible! A Heavenly Secrets Formation disk with a time attribute had altered the time of the scene, shifting the moment Xu Xiaoshou and Liu Changqing appeared to a quarter-hour earlier.
A quarter-hour!
This was not Xu Xiaoshou's first time witnessing the abilities of the time element.
But Ancestor Wuji's move of altering time through the Heavenly Secrets Art had genuinely stunned him. It was even more shocking than Gou Wuyue's sword strike, *Temporal Sequence: