"I came out because I was afraid you'd grow anxious waiting here. If you truly want to find your wife, pursue her with all your heart, and you'll surely uncover her whereabouts."
Xu Tong's words were like a stone stirring up a thousand waves. Even Quan Wuxiang's heart, which had lain still for so long, could not help surging with excitement.
If Liu Banruo truly was still alive, the guilt he had carried all these years could vanish like smoke and clouds.
Although Quan Wuxiang had seemed alive on the surface all these years, in truth, he had been little more than a walking corpse.
He had never truly lived for even a single day. In his heart, he had died alongside his wife on the day she departed this world.
"If you want to find your wife, Senior, I can help too. As it happens, I also want to see what secrets Heavenly Dao Lake is hiding."
Everything that had happened after he submerged himself in the water had been nothing more than outward appearances to those watching from outside. Only Xu Tong knew what had really happened.
He had indeed entered only a single layer. Within the lake's waters, there seemed to be another world entirely.
Xu Tong's claim that he had been afraid the two of them would grow anxious waiting was merely an excuse. The real reason was that he still had no way to enter the next layer.
While he was in the lake's whirlpool earlier, he had also seen a door leading somewhere else, but he had been unable to pass through it.
Xu Tong did not yet know why, but he felt certain that an enormous secret lay hidden within.
Although it seemed that he had not spent long in Heavenly Dao Lake,