At the same time Xuan Hao arrived at the other side of the Frozen Wastelands and officially stepped into the abandoned land also known as the outer regions of the continent, an older man located not too far away from the border between the Onyx Empire and the Frozen Wastelands that had recently been reestablished after it had partly collapsed a few months earlier, looked down on a younger woman who had just explained the situation that had taken place in the Onyx Empire not too long ago.
"A wiggling tree root that increase comprehension speed of the Dao by observing it? Are you pulling my leg? Do you honestly think I would believe something like that? And it even entered the Frozen Wastelands! I'm sure this is just some ploy by the demonic cultivators to try and ambush us!"