You and Qin Huang had been searching without any particular destination, so upon reaching this place, Qin Huang, unwilling to take risks, suggested turning back and choosing another direction to continue exploring... Qin Huang was quite satisfied. Over the past fifteen years, the two of you had gained a little more. Though he had obtained less than you, he felt it was enough.
Even now, you still harbored doubts about the Time Ancestral Land. After your initial joy, you had come back to your senses and begun to worry. By now, you were only half-convinced by this reward. Though you were not like Qin Huang, always thinking of leaving, your desire had greatly waned as well. You did not particularly wish to risk crossing this region of Weak Water, so you agreed to Qin Huang's proposal and accepted turning back...
You and Qin Huang had only been heading back in another direction for five days when you found something... At the very limit of your senses, two familiar figures were locked in fierce battle with someone.
Of the two, the one fighting the enemy at close range was a middle-aged Black Clad Man with broad shoulders and a body like a mountain. A sharp horn rose from his forehead, wings spread from his back, and he wielded a gleaming black halberd with roars of tigers and chants of dragons. Every collision set off countless waves of air, leaving more than half the surrounding area flattened to level ground... Even from an immense distance away, you could still feel the earth beneath you faintly trembling with every sweep and thrust of his weapon.
Behind the Black Clad Man wielding the halberd stood a burly man wearing a green jade mask and crystalline golden armor shaped like the head of a Heaven-Devouring