They had not mistaken them.
The two figures who shattered the void and emerged from the Lesser Grotto-Heaven, one after the other, were indeed Fang Qianyuan and Dongfang Zhi, who had been missing for so long.
They had fought inside for a full ten hours or more, while half a month had passed in the outside world.
This was because Dongfang Zhi had manipulated the flow of time within that world by intercepting a tributary of time, enhancing his various poisons and Poison Arts.
By deftly applying Reverse Time Transformation, he had accelerated time more than tenfold in one go, unleashing swift and formidable effects.
What he had never anticipated, however, was that Fang Qianyuan would immediately unleash Black Moon, hanging it high in the sky and turning everything into a world of ice and snow.
Then, by blasting hurricanes from his entire body and activating the Space Dao's Dimensional Transformation, he had used the void to isolate the inside from the outside, placing himself behind a protective barrier.
From that moment on, Fang Qianyuan had never been poisoned by him again. Even the deadly poison already in his body had gradually been forcibly dispersed by his powerful physique, and the damage it had caused had likewise been reversed and healed until not a trace remained.
By contrast, Fang Qianyuan's relentless, furious attacks had caused him tremendous trouble.
He was not a fierce warrior skilled in close combat, and his Spirit Creatures offered no advantage whatsoever in a contest of strength, so he had quickly fallen behind.
For several whole hours, Fang Qianyuan had kept him suppressed, until he had seemed almost incapable of fighting back!
At first, Dongfang Zhi had pinned his hopes on the enormous expenditure of Fang Qianyuan's methods, expecting him to collapse on his own before