"I've fought tooth and nail all these years so that one day I could snatch my wife back."
Zhang Jiuchuan finished speaking.
Everyone, Li Xiang included, was stunned.
The Grand Illusion Immortal Realm was opening. Heroes from across the land, people of every creed and calling, were pouring in like carp crossing a river. Even the Commander-in-Chief had personally stepped in to steer the course of events.
And the driving force behind it all was that the warlord before them missed his wife.
If word got out, no one would believe it.
Zhang Yunshang and Zhang Yunqing's birth mother was not only alive; she was the reincarnation of a fairy from the heavens. That was another staggering revelation.
Then Guo Bingfu, seated in the place of honor on the left, asked, "Did the Four Heavenly Gates never close, or has the Desolate River passage opened?"
Guo Bingfu had voiced the question on Li Xiang's mind.
The Four Heavenly Gates.
They were no airy myth. Li Xiang had set foot in Jade Capital City himself and gazed up at the Northern Heavenly Gate, hidden among the clouds and radiating boundless majesty.
And in the [Revolving Lantern] memories of Qin Zhong's Great-Grandmother, when the Ten Thousand Graves Weeping Blood had occurred and the sky had split apart, the Southern Heavenly Gate that ushered beings down into the world had burned itself deep into Li Xiang's Sea of Consciousness.
Northern Jade Capital had the Northern Heavenly Gate, and Southern Jade Capital had the Southern Heavenly Gate. Li Xiang had never seen the Eastern or Western Heavenly Gates, but scattered passages in ancient texts described them as paths to heaven that anchored the four reaches of the world.
Beyond the Four Heavenly Gates lay a fifth route: the Desolate River passage.
The Desolate River's