A Not Simple Identity

"So what if he's a Dou Huang! Everyone dies eventually! Even a Dou Zong will one day reach the end of their lifespan!" the Exploding Heaven Gang leader said cheerfully.

"Master, did you do this to help me subdue the Exotic Water and obtain its origin? That's why... that's why..." Hun Han's eyes were filled with reluctance, his heart deeply moved.

"Not entirely. Many years ago, I obtained a Water Attribute Blood Lotus Pill and foolishly tried to swallow that Exotic Water. I failed. Fortunately, I had many tricks up my sleeve and managed to spit it out. Ever since then, I've been left with an incurable cold affliction. I've only managed to survive until today by suppressing it with my Dou Huang cultivation! When I fought it earlier, the old injury that was suppressed by it all along erupted!" the Exploding Heaven Gang leader recalled.

"Master!" Hun Han's heart was completely touched.

"Don't be sad. Even if I hadn't met you, Master wouldn't have lived for another month. Heaven brought me here, and before I die, to have such an outstanding disciple like you is more than I could ask for!" the Exploding Heaven Gang leader looked at Hun Han with relief.

"Master!" Hun Han lowered his head, unable to speak.

"Oh right, you don't know my name yet! In this world, my name is Yun Jian!"

"Yin! Jian!" Hun Han looked up in shock, staring blankly at the Exploding Heaven Gang leader.

"You brat, what are you thinking!" the Exploding Heaven Gang leader raised his hand, intending to tap Hun Han's head. However, his aged hand, covered in ice crystals, struggled even to lift. He corrected himself, "Not the 'yin' from 'lewd,' but the 'yun' from 'white cloud' and the 'jian' from 'precious sword'!"

"Yun Jian!" Hun Han murmured, wanting to engrave the name in his heart.

"Mm. I was originally a disciple of the Yun Lan Sect, but I fell in love with a poison girl from the Chu Yun Empire. This relationship was doomed to be rejected by the world. Master confined me and drove her away, leading to her tragic death in the Gamma Empire. In a fit of anger, I left the Yun Lan Sect. I vowed to establish a new gang. A gang of freedom, without worldly prejudices. However, things didn't go as planned. Fortunately, before I die, I've taken in two satisfactory disciples. I'm telling you this because if you encounter trouble in the future, go find my junior brother, Yun Shan, at the Yun Lan Sect." The Exploding Heaven Gang leader, Yun Jian, said this and then painstakingly took out a jade token from his chest.

Hun Han quickly took it. One side of the jade token had a mountain peak shrouded in clouds. The other side had only a large character for 'sword'.

The Exploding Heaven Gang leader was Yun Shan's senior brother. Yun Shan was the previous sect leader of the Yun Lan Sect and Yun Yun's Master. Nalan Yanran was Yun Yun's disciple. Then Hun Han was...

"Do you have any other questions?" Yun Jian suddenly asked.

"Master, after you leave, will I be the leader of the Exploding Heaven Gang?" Hun Han asked.

"Mm." Yun Jian nodded slightly.

"Then... can I change my name? I don't really like this name!" Hun Han asked softly.

"Yes." Yun Jian nodded magnanimously.

"Master, what about Zi Yan?"

"She went out. Said what I made wasn't tasty and went to find something to eat herself!"

"Oh!" Hun Han responded.

"You, do you have anything else you want to ask? Just ask!" Yun Jian looked at Hun Han, who seemed to want to speak but hesitated.

"Master, are you a transmigrator?"

"Transmigrator?"

"Yes, someone who wasn't originally from this world. They came to this world from another!" Hun Han explained in detail. If the other person wasn't about to die, he would never ask someone this.

"What did you say?" A spark of brilliance suddenly erupted in Yun Jian's eyes as he asked, "You mean, you weren't originally from this world either?"

"Mm." Hun Han was now certain that Yun Jian was also a transmigrator.

"How did you figure that out?" Yun Jian asked curiously. He had never told anyone this secret before.

"The poem you recited. 'Ten years of life and death, vast and indistinct, without deliberate thought, naturally unforgettable. A thousand miles of lonely graves, nowhere to speak of desolation. Even if we met, you should not recognize me, face full of dust, temples like frost.' This poem was written by Su Shi, one of the Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song dynasties," Hun Han replied.

"Uh!"

Yun Jian gazed at Hun Han, his eyes filled with relief. He hadn't expected to meet a fellow countryman before his death. His breath was faint, and he couldn't hold on much longer. He instructed, "Go out now and let me complete my final journey alone. Once you're out, destroy the teleportation array outside. From now on, consider this place my tomb!"

"Yes, Master!"

Hun Han kowtowed to Yun Jian three times with utmost respect. Then he stepped onto the teleportation array and placed a fourth-tier Magic Core into the groove on the stone platform in the center of the array. With a blinding flash of light, Hun Han's body appeared outside.

"Master, travel well!"

Hun Han clenched his fist and smashed it towards the teleportation array. With a bang, the white marble teleportation array shattered into pieces, churned into powder by Hun Han's fist wind. A wisp of spatial energy transformed into a gust of wind, swirling back and forth within the hall.

"Three days!"

Hun Han stood at the desolate entrance, looking down at the foot of the mountain. Zi Yan's figure was still nowhere to be seen: "Forget it, I won't wait any longer. With Zi Yan's strength, ordinary people can't do anything to her. Now, it's time to go to the next check-in location!"

Moreover, according to the storyline, Zi Yan was brought to the inner court by Elder Su Qian of Jia Nan Academy. Three days had passed, and Hun Han had searched Twilight City thoroughly, but Zi Yan was nowhere to be found. He figured Zi Yan was probably eating somewhere right now!

Thinking of this, Hun Han walked over to a large rock, extended his hand, and the six or seven-year-old child somehow lifted the ten-ton rock off the ground.

He placed the rock at the entrance and extended his index finger again. Relying on his flesh and blood alone, he carved a conspicuous line of large characters onto the stone: Master is dead, Senior Brother has gone to Qing Shan Town in the Gamma Empire. He will return in three months, do not worry!

Hun Han looked at the words on the large stone and nodded with satisfaction. Even if Zi Yan returned, she would know where he had gone.

At this point, Hun Han's back moved slightly, and a silver light bloomed. On his back appeared a pair of outstretched wings, silver and over two meters long. As the giant wings moved lightly, faint traces of wind and thunder power were generated.

Hun Han stomped his foot, and the ground cracked inch by inch. His body soared into the air. Flapping his wings, he circled the ruins of the ancient palace three times before hovering in mid-air, identifying a direction, and flying off.

During these three days, Hun Han hadn't been idle. He had already skillfully mastered the Lightning Bat Sky Wings.

On the Dou Qi Continent, Dou Qi transforming into wings was a divine ability only attainable by Dou Wang powerhouses. Now, Hun Han had already broken free from the constraints of this boundary ahead of time.