Everyone looked at one another, remembering the gateway at the border.
Lao Tao slapped his palm. "The Master's wisdom is unparalleled throughout the ages. That's right—how did we not think of it? Only the Master could have thought of this. Not only is the Master's martial strength peerless, his wisdom is unmatched as well. If I had even one ten-thousandth of the Master's wisdom, I would have already become a Sangtian. Please teach me more, Master, so that I may become wiser and walk a different path into the future."
Everyone felt sick.
"Let's make another guess. If it truly leads to a universe, and that universe is guarded like the Spiritualized Universe yet remains unreachable, it must be a mythical land. Master, that must be the Heaven Origin Universe! Master, you came from a mythical land and are a divine being. This humble one pays respects to the divine being, Master."
"Shut up." Lu Yin was annoyed. Even he felt sick from all the flattery.
Lao Tao gave an ingratiating smile.
Old Fox Ye sighed deeply. How had he ever become friends with this fellow? It was humiliating.
Ye Yan'er covered her mouth and smiled.
Qingjiang Realm, the location of the Si Ma Merchant Association, did not belong to the Thirty-Six Domains. It lay in the middle of the upper half of the character for "spirit," closer to Beyond Heaven than the General Merchant Association in the Great Complete Domain.
What had happened in Yi Bu City was immediately sealed off by the General Merchant Association and never spread. Many people had no idea what had happened. They only knew that Yi Bu City had suddenly been destroyed and that they had been knocked unconscious by the shock. They knew nothing else, and no one would explain it