Do we still have to take a ship?
Could it really be as I'd guessed? Was Grandpa hinting at that place's location?
Outsider, Abyssal Moon Soul, taking a ship.
That place was very likely overseas.
Based on Grandpa's experiences when he was young—following "Big Brother" around to collect debts—and the fact that he had known Taoist Hengyu of Mount Qingcheng since their youth, with Taoist Hengyu even having looked after Grandpa on the Shanghai Bund.
The Dragon Protector Clan had also handed Dark Axe over to me, saying they had been entrusted by someone.
Then there was definitely more to Grandpa's "Big Brother." He was very likely one of the higher-ups.
When Grandpa was young, there was a strong possibility that he had been working for the higher-ups.
Later, he retired to his hometown and, after I was born, snatched me back from the Yellow Springs.
During that time, he must have reached some sort of agreement with the Yellow Springs and become a Mortal-Realm Patrolman.
And perhaps under that "agreement," he was forbidden from guiding me or teaching me any techniques?
That was why Grandpa could only tell me so many things indirectly, and could only teach me techniques from the side.
Although Grandpa had never confirmed any of this himself.
I felt as though I had already pieced together the outline of one episode from his youth.
If all of that was true, then Grandpa's "Big Brother" had to be one of the higher-ups.
The "outsider" he mentioned had to be an evil cultivator from overseas.
If I had to take a ship there, then that overseas country could be one of the Southeast Asian nations, or perhaps Japan, South Korea, and so on.
In that instant, I kept sorting through all this information in my mind.
Then