Five years earlier, He Zhiping had quietly appeared in the Violet Thorn Mountains.
He Zhiping had not revealed himself publicly, however. Instead, he had gone straight to True Person Daoxuan, the grand elder of the Violet Thorn Sacred Land.
That day, True Person Daoxuan had left the mountain-protecting formation on business, and He Zhiping had appeared behind him without a sound.
True Person Daoxuan was already a mid-stage Immortal Venerable. For He Zhiping to appear behind him undetected was proof enough that He Zhiping's true strength far surpassed his own.
If He Zhiping had wanted to kill True Person Daoxuan, it would have taken little effort.
This had given True Person Daoxuan quite a fright.
But when he learned that He Zhiping was actually a fellow disciple of Qin Huaian's sect back in the Cultivation World, True Person Daoxuan felt both relieved and utterly astounded.
After all, Qin Huaian's fellow disciples in the Cultivation World had been at roughly the same cultivation level as him, either at Core Formation or in the Nascent Soul Realm.
Yet fewer than six hundred years had passed since Qin Huaian and the others entered the Violet Thorn Great World, and this man's apparent cultivation had already reached the early-stage Immortal Venerable level.
His true strength was even greater than Daoxuan's.
Was there something different about the Cultivation World Qin Huaian came from?
One Qin Huaian was already a rarity unseen through the ages. Now another He Zhiping had appeared. How could True Person Daoxuan remain calm?
He had even doubted He Zhiping's identity, wondering whether he was simply making things up to claim a connection with Qin Huaian.
But there seemed little point in doing so. What benefit would claiming a connection with Qin Huaian bring? Besides, such an identity could easily be exposed