The dust around them drifted away like smoke.
The scroll in midair swiftly blackened, wrinkled, and rotted, yet the hate-filled words Rogue Person Baiyun had left in its blank spaces remained faintly visible.
In the blink of an eye, the scroll vanished like smoke.
Yet the figure of that purple-robed, green-bearded Daoist and his double pupils remained lodged in Wang Ba's memory, impossible to dispel.
It was a weight unlike anything he had ever felt:
"After all this time... that Demonic Daoist is still alive..."
"Of course. Senior Jiang Yi suspected he was a Tribulation Crossing cultivator... only a Tribulation Crossing cultivator could possibly live that long..."
Wang Ba stood motionless within the rapidly dissipating house, unable to calm his heart for a long time.
He involuntarily recalled the scene when he had seen the purple-robed Daoist in the Bead Secret Realm on Myriad Laws Peak.
He had once suspected it was an illusion, but now, after reading Rogue Person Baiyun's words, he finally understood that it had been no illusion at all. The purple-robed Daoist had indeed appeared in the Bead Secret Realm.
"Why did he appear those two times?"
Countless thoughts rose and fell in Wang Ba's mind:
"Rogue Person Baiyun said he bewitched people, and that the strongest group in the Guantao Realm had been tricked into leaving by him. Now the Demonic Daoist has appeared in the Little Cang Realm too. Could he be here to deceive us as well?"
"But what could he gain by deceiving us? And if a Tribulation Crossing cultivator really wanted to do something, would he need to achieve it through deception?"
*"Unless... he isn't a Tribulation Crossing cultivator and cannot accomplish it through brute force... but judging by this place, at least tens of thousands of years have passed, perhaps