Time hurried by, and three years passed in the blink of an eye.
Song Wen appeared at Great Passage Lake in Southern Nether Province.
He hovered above the small island in the lake where Ying Wu raised demonic beasts and cultivated in seclusion.
"Fellow Daoist Ying Wu, it has been many years since we parted. Do you still remember this old friend?"
At these words, the many female cultivators serving Ying Wu on the island all looked up.
Immediately afterward, a slender figure flew out from the island. It was Ying Wu.
"Extreme Yin, you're still alive?" Ying Wu's eyes sparkled as he looked Song Wen over with curiosity and delight.
"Fellow Daoist Ying Wu, we're old acquaintances who have faced life and death together. Why curse me like that?" Song Wen replied with a wry smile.
"I'm not cursing you," Ying Wu explained. "The Teleportation Array your party took to the Western Rong Continent back then was destroyed on that continent's end because of the Willow Serpent Clan's intervention. Although Yuan Rong and the others escaped back before the array was destroyed, as far as I know, you weren't among them. How did you return to the Eastern Profound Continent?"
"The Teleportation Array was destroyed!"
Song Wen looked somewhat surprised.
After all, given the Willow Snake Clan's obsession with male cultivators of the Human Race, the Teleportation Array should have benefited them.
But Song Wen did not know exactly what had happened, so he could hardly speculate about the reason.
Perhaps the Teleportation Array had not been destroyed by the Willow Snake Clan at all, but for some other reason.
"I returned from the Western Rong Continent through Spatial Projection," Song Wen said.
"Spatial Projection? What's that?" Ying Wu asked.
"A natural formation born of the workings of heaven