Without a word along the way, about an hour later, Xiao Jie had already flown back to the vicinity of the Kongtong Mountain area remembered in his memory.
To avoid unnecessary attention and commotion, Xiao Jie had early on used the Invisibility Technique to completely conceal his traces, then pressed down on the clouds, quietly landing.
He landed at the very spot by the clear river where he had once had the final showdown with the Red Dust Taoist. Choosing this location to enter the Netherworld had its reasoning. According to the "Dark and Mysterious Record," the Jiuzhou World and Netherworld are not completely isolated separate worlds, but rather like two sides of a mirror, overlapping each other yet existing on different dimensional planes. The "Nether River" that traverses the Netherworld, cleansing souls, has projections intricately linked to the rivers, lakes, and seas of the Jiuzhou World, with interconnected water veins and air flows.
