Black Heaven Peak, before a cliff.
Bai Xiaowen and Chen Rong stood side by side, gazing at the misty air below the mountain.
"Why... have you never told me that you had an overseas domain?" Chen Rong asked.
Clearly, Sect Master Chen was somewhat dissatisfied at being the last to learn about Bai Xiaowen's "overseas domain."
Bai Xiaowen felt awkward as well. After thinking it over, he said, "Well... if I had told you about my domain beforehand, I would have had to explain my origins."
"Is there anything about your origins that can't be told?" Chen Rong stared at Bai Xiaowen. "The various righteous sects and martial artists throughout the jianghu all say that you're a successor of a reclusive sect, and that your domain was bestowed on you by that sect to develop. But you denied that to me... Now I can't even figure out what your identity really is."
Bai Xiaowen smiled. "My origins aren't impossible to explain. They're just too bizarre, and they involve certain rules of confidentiality. I can't speak of them carelessly, lest I violate some taboo."
Chen Rong immediately asked, "Are you... from the same place as those mysterious allies of the Black Heaven Cult?"
Bai Xiaowen nodded.
With the natives already having seen through the fact that the Evolvers of the Great Tang Domain had identities as Evolvers, Bai Xiaowen's admission naturally did not violate the rules of confidentiality.
As for Bai Xiaowen's own identity, that was something he could explain to the natives in the first place, so it mattered even less.
"Those mysterious allies seem to have come from a place called the 'Great Tang Domain.' What's the relationship between your domain and the Great Tang Domain?"
Bai Xiaowen smiled. "We're enemies, of course."
Chen Rong could actually tell that