The bluestone crumbled to dust, and the man was gone.
Qin Sheng stared at the stone dust. Purple Cloud's cave emerging, the child falling into the water, the immortal leaving something behind—each event flashed through his mind, and realization struck.
"Pu, Sanshui Qi... So that's it. It was them: Bodhi Patriarch and Ji Dian."
Qin Sheng had figured out the identities of the grandfather and grandson.
Bodhi Patriarch was a Great Ability renowned throughout the Three Realms. A cultivator of the Qi Refinement Path at the Ancestral Immortal Realm—or, as cultivators of the Three Realms called it, a Grand Luo Dao Ancestor—he was also a True God of the Body Refinement Path. He cultivated both qi and body, possessed immense strength, and stood at the pinnacle of the Three Realms.
Ji Dian was Bodhi Patriarch's second disciple and a Great Ability of the Three Realms in his own right. He was also the foremost Arhat of the Buddhist Sect, the famed Dragon-Subduing Arhat.
Bodhi Patriarch must have noticed me when I went to the Netherworld. Black and White Impermanence led the way, and Cui Fujun accompanied me. We were far too conspicuous, Qin Sheng thought.
Once that piece fell into place, everything else made sense.
Why had Immortal Purple Cloud's cave emerged early? Bodhi Patriarch must have arranged it. A Loose Immortal's cave was something he could bring forth with a flick of his finger.
He found a ruin left by a Seamless Gate Loose Immortal in the Luminous Light Great World to see whether I was a reincarnated Seamless Gate cultivator? He really went to some trouble...
Qin Sheng glimpsed something of Bodhi Patriarch's thinking. He had to admit that the Dao Ancestor was remarkably sharp and had eyes everywhere. Few things in the Three Realms escaped his notice.