Jiang Wang flew toward Boulder Valley, holding a sword in one hand and the bundle-wrapped Kasaya in the other.
He was still savoring the blade technique of that Life Blood avatar, which had come close to the Dao. The more he pondered it, the more profound it seemed, and he regretted not having another chance to witness it. The long Soul-Severing Gorge was a lonely stretch, but with Blade Coin for company, he didn't feel too isolated.
He had long since grown used to traveling alone.
Lost in thought, he suddenly saw the Blade Coin ahead turn back. It darted anxiously up and down, as if trying to warn him of something, then flew to the nearby cliff, apparently to carve out a message...
But there was no need.
Jiang Wang had already spotted the man standing at the mouth of the gorge, just before the entrance to Boulder Valley. He was over eight feet tall, bare-chested, and built like a boulder, with an imposing, rugged air.
He leaned on a cone-shaped greatsword with both hands. Its body was rounded like an iron rod, with a sharp point at the end. Calling it a spike wouldn't have been wrong.
Yet it clearly had a crossguard and a hilt.
All in all, it was a strange sword, wielded by a man with sharply defined muscles.
But Jiang Wang's attention was more fixed on the air above.
More precisely, on the graceful woman leaning against the cliff to the left, wearing a Faceless Mask.
The Unmasked Human Demon he had seen at the Azure Cloud Pavilion in Yong Kingdom!
If she was here, then the muscular man was likely another Human Demon.
To run into two Human Demons blocking his path here in Soul-Severing Gorge.
What a narrow road they'd met on!