"Hm?"
Xiao Ran raised his head on the deck and glanced behind him.
"What is it?" Golden Toad Son noticed Xiao Ran's odd reaction and asked.
"That egg seems to have hatched." Xiao Ran looked away and took a sip of hot water. Just now, he had clearly sensed an intense surge of energy in the direction of Ancient Stone Ridge, as if all the energy within a thousand meters had been stirred up.
"He seems to have taken a different path."
Xiao Ran examined the sensation carefully. The version of himself created by Twin Masks possessed the same abilities and the same Cursed Objects as he did.
But the other version seemed to have taken the divergent path Xiao Ran had once envisioned.
He was pursuing, to an extreme degree, control over the world around him.
"That might not be a bad thing." Golden Toad Son pondered for a moment. "One focuses inward, the other on external change. Doesn't that give you a model to learn from, a point of reference?"
At the pinnacle of the art, whether one pursued the external or the internal couldn't simply be judged as right or wrong.
Xiao Ran was even looking forward to meeting this duplicate again and comparing their understandings.
But not now.
"We're almost there. That should be the mountain up ahead."
Lu Da gazed at the distant mountain. Its vast, boundless bulk rose like a pillar reaching into the heavens. They could see one side of it, but beyond that, everything was shrouded in a sea of white mist.
Before the Misty City descended, Changbai Mountain certainly hadn't contained a mountain this enormous.
"Over there!"
Wu Man spotted a stele in the distance, carved from an entire small hill.
It was covered in complicated Oracle Bone Script.
Neither Wu