Qing Chen stood in midair, his gaze slowly sweeping over the city gate below, at once familiar and somewhat strange. A wave of emotion stirred within him.
More than thirty years had hurried past, yet it felt like yesterday that he had stood outside the gates of Hanchuan City in the Shu Kingdom, waving farewell to his second mother, second brother, Third Younger Brother, and little sister.
Then he had ridden east alone, without so much as a backward glance.
The world was ever-changing, and the years flew like a shuttle. Who could have imagined that, more than thirty years later, he would once again set foot upon the land where he had said his farewells?
The vast battlefield recorded in the jade slip lay more than fifty li outside Hanchuan City.
It was as though some unseen destiny had guided him back once more.
Looking back over those long thirty-odd years, Qing Chen had undergone earth-shaking advances in both cultivation and techniques.
The insignificant cultivator who had once been at merely qi refining layer one had now grown into a High Person at the Foundation Establishment middle stage, his realm as firm as a mountain and his magic power as pure as a flowing river.
The Brahma Demon-Refining Art, which formed the foundation of his cultivation, had reached the fifth layer, and he was nearly halfway through it. Such cultivation was already rare in the Azure Wave Archipelago.
Especially noteworthy was the Brahma Aperture Blood-Refining Secret Art within the Brahma Demon-Refining Art, which had opened two increasingly solid Brahma Apertures for him.
As long as he had sufficient essence blood, Qing Chen cultivated considerably faster than even those cultivators with high-grade spiritual roots.
As for evasion techniques, he had successfully cultivated his high-tier mystic grade Six Jia Evasion Technique