Low-martial world.
Xiang Yuan wore black, a bamboo hat on his head and a saber at his waist, as he flipped through the map he had bought.
The second opening led to an underwater palace beneath the sea—the very place he had departed from.
Because time flowed at the same rate in both worlds, the corpses strewn all over the ground had been cleared away in the time it took to come and go. The underground palace was empty, but spies from the Secluded Immortal Sect kept watch in Tide Sea Ancient City, waiting to see whether Li Xianyuan might return.
In just one month, Xiang Yuan's methods had become countless times stronger than before. Moving like a phantom, he easily evaded those spies and bought himself a new outfit in a nearby city.
He had specifically chosen black.
There was no special reason for it. It was simply because Xiao Lingyue also dressed entirely in black, leading him to guess that he had joined a black-clad organization with white as its codename. As fellow senior sister and junior brother, wearing another color would make him seem too aloof. He had no ability to put on such lofty airs, so he followed local custom and changed into black martial attire.
By then, rumors that Li Xianyuan had learned a world-shaking martial art and bathed Tide Sea Ancient City in blood had spread throughout the martial world. Everyone said that the Ageless Celestial Venerable had lived a second life, and that everything the Li Clan had lost would be reclaimed by the Li Clan's surviving son with his own hands.
A great calamity was bearing down on the Secluded Immortal Sect, and a storm of blood and gore was about to sweep through the martial world!
The rumors grew more and