"Could I have come back from the dead?"
Jian Shifei bent over to examine his body, his expression wavering between shock and doubt, feeling as though he had lived two lifetimes.
His memory still stopped at the instant Gu Jian's blade, guided by Chu Xisheng, had cut into him.
Gu Jian glanced sideways at him. "It doesn't count as coming back from the dead. The master of the secret realm used great divine power to turn back time and repair our primordial spirits, bringing us back into the world. Whether we can stay alive now depends on whether we can complete the mission He gave us."
Jian Shifei concentrated on a piece of information within his mind, then smiled bitterly. "Ever since I began cultivating, I've considered myself more intelligent and resourceful than most, and I've always been cautious. I never imagined I would come to grief here today."
Gu Jian thought, Wasn't the same true of me?
The problem was that Chu Xisheng was far too devious. Even in that situation, he had still held something back.
Not only had he lured in Jian Shifei and the others, but he had also sent Gu Jian himself to the Yellow Springs.
Just then, a commotion and the sounds of a beating came from beside them.
A group of their companions were beating Zhimoshan.
"Fuck your immortals! You call that seeing through his abilities?"
"You screwed every last one of us over this time!"
"I believed your damned nonsense! I died such a miserable death!"
"Do you know how I died? Chu Xisheng cut me apart with one stroke! Even my head was gone!"
"Fuck eighteen generations of your ancestors! If you can't judge people, don't go trying! You got everyone killed!"
"Why did I believe you? Why did I believe