"You came from outside too?"
The disheveled middle-aged man's words startled everyone in the secret chamber.
Wang Ba could not help exclaiming in surprise, then swept his gaze over the others.
The Five Great Ghost Kings exchanged glances and tactfully sealed off their five senses. Seeing this, Yun Qi belatedly caught on and hurriedly shut off his five senses as well.
The disheveled middle-aged man nodded.
"I came from the Zhuyan Realm..."
Wang Ba exchanged a glance with Yu Wuhen and shook his head slightly.
Neither had ever heard the name Zhuyan Realm, but Wang Ba immediately caught on and asked:
"Outside the Immortal Severance Land, or outside the Immortal Pass?"
Hearing this, the disheveled middle-aged man became even more certain. His complicated expression held a trace of bewilderment.
"Outside the Immortal Severance Land. Back then, the Zhuyan Realm came under siege by a great horde of vicious creatures. The World Domain was breached, and some fellow cultivators and I escaped by luck, only to stumble into a vortex."
"When we emerged again, we were in the wind zone of the Immortal Severance Land. I spent some years there and encountered some Double Pupils People. After unexpectedly losing several physical bodies..."
He unconsciously raised a hand and gently pressed his left eye, his expression complicated.
"These Double Pupils somehow appeared, which I never expected. That was why I guessed where you came from the moment I saw her."
In a few brief words, he gave an account of his origins. In truth, he had kept these words bottled up for far, far too long. But alone in a foreign land, a stranger in a strange place, he had never dared readily reveal his origins to the many cultivators of the Sea of Boundary Turmoil, not even friends with whom he