"Bastard!" Watching Lu Xiaotian disappear into the passage, the Corrosion-and-Slaughter Heart Demon and the Purple-Cyan Netherflame Tiger hurried over, their faces so gloomy they seemed ready to drip water. After all their running around and making arrangements, not only had they come up empty-handed, they had lost another Shadow Doppelganger. The Corrosion-and-Slaughter Heart Demon, who had suffered one loss after another in recent years, was especially enraged.
"Heart Demon, should we go in now, or wait until the Ghost Ape and Ba Wuyai arrive?" The Purple-Cyan Netherflame Tiger's eyes shifted. Naturally, he didn't want to follow the Corrosion-and-Slaughter Heart Demon into danger. If they were going in, they could wait until the Redflame Ice Nether Ghost Ape and Ba Wuyai arrived.
"Fine. We'll do that, then." The Corrosion-and-Slaughter Heart Demon's expression was awful. He had only caught sight of Lu Xiaotian just now, and two passages had appeared. As far as he was concerned, catching up with the One-Armed Monk would at least accomplish something. Pursuing Lu Xiaotian was more about venting his anger.
In Green Antelope Gorge, an ordinary-looking scholar in blue sat motionless on a rock. If not for his human shape, he could have been mistaken for part of the stone beneath him.
After a long while, the scholar in blue finally let out a deep breath and opened his eyes. The lush trees and flowers hidden throughout the gorge came into view. Without realizing it, more than five years had passed since he had left the Luoyang Prison. The passage leading to the outside world had been extremely unstable. Though Lu Xiaotian had borrowed a considerable amount of the distorted spatial power, he had been at the very heart of the spatial turbulence and had been caught up in it, suffering serious injuries himself.
It had