A courtyard filled with thin mist.
Beside the ruins of a collapsed pavilion.
Listening to Chen Xuan, Wang Ba could not help frowning again as he stared at him.
He had originally had some guesses about Chen Xuan's origins, but now, hearing his words, he knew those guesses might have taken the wrong direction.
At this moment, he had no choice but to reassess the other man's origins and the dangers he might pose.
His eyes flickered, a dangerous gleam faintly flashing within them.
"You had best reveal a little more, Fellow Daoist Chen."
Chen Xuan hesitated, then finally spoke.
"I swear by the Boundary Sea that I never deceived you when we were outside the Great Sea Market... It was only after stepping onto those jade steps that I began to feel vaguely familiar with this place, as though-as though I had been here before. And... the only thing I lied about was that, outside the gazebo earlier, I actually saw people playing chess inside. Both of them seemed familiar to me..."
Past-Life Wisdom?!
Listening to his description, this thought sprang into Wang Ba's mind almost immediately.
His heart jolted.
He exchanged a glance with Yu Wuhen, who looked equally startled and uncertain.
But another question immediately arose.
Could he be an Immortal reincarnated? Or... is he that Immortal's chess piece?
He could not help recalling the gaze the Immortal surnamed Six had cast toward him in the gazebo.
He had initially thought that gaze had been directed at him. But thinking back now, Chen Xuan had been standing behind him then. Perhaps the Immortal surnamed Six had not been looking at him at all, but at Chen Xuan behind him!
"So your clone being here wasn't caused by changes in the rules, as you claimed earlier?"
Wang Ba