The North Sea remained as it had been, its waves calm. The surroundings were no different from before Di Yi had left, unchanged through a thousand years, the same through the ages.
He returned from the Void God Realm and slowly opened his eyes. His Spirit Transformation spiritual body had relayed every experience to him; whether the True Phoenix Precious Technique or the arts of those Stone Statues, he had truly obtained them all.
"Darkness and the uncanny... perhaps the Foreign Realm can also become part of my future itinerary," Di Yi murmured. He thought that, just as he could take a two-pronged approach to healing himself, he could do the same in tracing his origins.
For he had begun to suspect that the black mist, which seemed to have been produced by Black Blood, very likely came from him rather than from Black Blood.
In other words, the reason black mist had appeared throughout the heavens might well have been that, while his body was ailing, he had inadvertently spilled some of it into the outside world.
Moreover, this newborn world had obtained the Original True Understanding, and the uncanny presence in the Ancient Sacred Academy felt as though it had come from his own hand. It contained a certain special power of the True Understanding, like blood kin.
All these clues pointed straight at him.
Perhaps none of this had been caused by him, but there was no denying that it was all connected to him. Without him, none of it would have existed.
"The uncanny presence in the Ancient Sacred Academy arose because someone put my arts to another use. Perhaps the ones who created this dark substance were that same group, putting the harmful substances I expelled to another use." Di Yi pondered. His experiences and