Later, Ji Jue told them that his aim was to find a passage that could help them leave this world.
Everyone was stunned by his words. Could there be another passage to the outside world besides the formation beneath the Black Dragon King's throne?
Su Jiu suddenly recalled her earlier suspicions about the passage of time in this world.
She asked Ji Jue tentatively, "Were you swallowed by that giant whale ten years ago?"
Ji Jue did not understand why Su Jiu was asking, but he nodded anyway.
Su Jiu lowered her gaze, making it impossible to tell what she was thinking for a moment. "What year was it in the Azure Realm before you came here?"
Although the Azure Realm had a calendar, it was generally only mortals and the Heavenly Secret Sect who paid attention to it. Ordinary cultivators rarely kept track. After all, many cultivators spent decades or even centuries in secluded cultivation, and by the time they emerged, the world might have changed beyond recognition. To them, a calendar was little more than an ornament.
No one had expected Su Jiu to ask this question, but before long, they understood why she had.
Ji Jue thought for a moment, then suddenly remembered passing through a mortal town where some sort of ceremony was being held. The year had been mentioned several times during it. His eyes brightened, and he said with absolute certainty, "The nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-ninth year of Heavenly Origin."
Su Jiu's expression barely changed; only a glimmer of understanding appeared in her eyes. Yun Huanling's face, however, suddenly turned a sickly purple.
As a personal disciple of the Heavenly Secret Sect, he naturally remembered everything related to the calendar with perfect clarity.
The others might not know, but he knew very