"Sure enough, it was you, Ji Changli."
He Ping's face darkened as he said coldly, "I more or less guessed that this method might give me a chance to reach you. It seems you put considerable thought into the disciples of these Earth Aspect Lodges as well, making no small number of arrangements."
No sooner had he spoken than a figure stepped through the void and strode forward. He was a mysterious old man with the back of a tortoise and the form of a crane, bearing the immortal air of a Daoist sage, a sun-shading conical hat strapped to his back.
He Ping knew very well that this elder was Ji Changli, the Hemp-Robe Daoist of old, now the patriarch of the Earth Master Path lineage.
Back on the past timeline, he had intended to cleanse the Hemp-Robe Dao Palace and punish Ying Wuji. Yet after being schemed against by Ying Wuji, he was ultimately ambushed by Jihuitian, the Sibi Sect Master. Jihuitian used the Infinite Void Heavenly Will Treasure Concealment Art to tear open a rift in the void and cast him into a sunken realm of endless time and space. By all reason, after meeting such an end, whether he lived or died would be forever unknown.
Everyone had believed Ji Changli had perished, body and Dao alike, completely fallen. Who could have imagined that not only had Ji Changli not died, he had instead used the Infinite Void Heavenly Will Treasure Concealment Art to be sent into the distant future, where he secretly established the Earth Master Path upon the future timeline.
His disciples had even created the Earth Aspect Lodge, forging the Earth Master Path into one of the famed three great evil sect lineages. Such an experience could undoubtedly be called legendary.
"Greetings, Fellow