"When will the Vice Sect Master return?"
Nether River suddenly asked.
Duobao shook his head.
"We don't know what the Vice Sect Master has planned, either."
"But now that he's won you over, Fellow Daoist, I imagine... he'll be back soon."
Nether River nodded slightly and asked no more.
He took his leave of everyone, then blurred into a streak of blood-red light and headed toward the Nether Blood Sea.
Now that he had become a Jie Sect Guardian, he had to immediately fulfill his duty of guarding the Blood Sea.
The blood-red light cut across the sky and vanished from the East Sea horizon in an instant.
On Golden Ao Island, the disciples watched Nether River's departure and began talking again.
"The Blood Sea Master... really became a Jie Sect Guardian."
"The Vice Sect Master's methods are truly extraordinary."
"With this, our Interception Sect has a foothold in the Netherworld, too."
Their voices surged like a tide, full of excitement and pride.
Daoist Duobao stood where he was, his gaze deep as he looked into the depths of the East Sea.
He could feel the aura of Vice Sect Master Xuandu... returning.
And within that aura, there seemed to be a kind of Chaos Dao Rhyme unlike anything he had sensed before.
"Vice Sect Master... what sort of fortune have you come upon this time?"
Duobao murmured to himself, anticipation growing in his eyes.
Deep in the Nether Blood Sea, within the restrictions.
Xuandu sat cross-legged amid endless Chaos Energy Flow, his blue robes stirring faintly, his black hair flowing like ink.
His eyes were shut tight. Hunyuan Dao Rhyme surged around him like the tide, resonating and merging with the Primal Dao Rhyme of this Chaos Space.
The Chaos Bead floated quietly in his palm, its Chaos