"Heh, fellow Daoist, why so tense?"
Inside the cramped room.
As though he had noticed the gravity in Wang Ba's heart, Chen Xuan's avatar-no, more precisely, the Double Pupils Daoist, Man-smiled faintly, his expression relaxed and breezy, yet spoke words that sent a jolt through Wang Ba's heart:
"Though you ruined my grand plan, fellow Daoist, I would be lying if I said I bore no hatred. But times have changed. A tremendous opportunity lies right before us, so why shouldn't you and I cooperate once more today?"
Wang Ba's expression darkened slightly, wariness rising within him. He had no idea how this Man Daoist had appeared here, how he had been sealed by the talisman paper, or what he intended.
His thoughts raced, but he did not rush to answer.
Beside him, however, the Yingyuan Dao Master could no longer restrain himself and demanded in a low voice:
"Who exactly are you? Why are you here?"
Although the Immortal's mansion had probably existed for a long time, according to Lu Shifu, its gates had previously been open but protected by restrictions, with an immensely powerful cultivator suspected to be in the Tribulation Crossing Realm standing guard. Ordinary cultivators could not possibly have broken in.
More importantly, those strange golden double pupils of his irresistibly reminded him of the descriptions of an Immortal that had long circulated within their world.
Countless tens of thousands of years ago, one of the two great Immortals who had brought about the formation of the Sea of Boundary Turmoil was said to have possessed golden double pupils.
Although that Immortal's appearance and abilities could no longer be verified after the passage of so many years, the records of those golden double pupils had not been lost.
Of course, this was also because rumors of