Chapter 001: A Hodgepodge?

Wang Bo passed through the passage and entered the new world, only to find himself standing in the wilderness.

Apart from a dirt road, there were only towering mountains around.

He called Xiao Bai, Xiao Qing, Diana, and Bumblebee out of the Time Villa, then had Bumblebee transform into a car, and everyone got inside.

Bumblebee sped along the bumpy dirt road at an astonishing speed.

The group drove straight ahead along the current road, while Wang Bo released some drones to survey the surrounding environment.

The drones fanned out in all directions, and the surrounding map was displayed on Bumblebee's onboard screen.

After about an hour, an ancient city appeared before Wang Bo's eyes.

Xiao Qing saw the city and the ancient men and women inside dressed in coarse linen clothes, and instantly lost interest in exploring.

She was originally a demon from ancient times, but after witnessing the modern, dazzling world, she had long been captivated by all sorts of novel things and looked down on the backward ancient era.

In her view, there was nothing fun about such a time period.

So she couldn't help but yawn and said, "Since it's ancient times, forget it. I'll go back first."

With that, she returned to the Time Villa.

Rather than wandering around in such a backward world, it was better to go back to the Time Villa and cultivate.

Xiao Bai saw Xiao Qing leave so decisively, shook her head, and said to Wang Bo, "Husband, you take good care of Sister Diana. I'll go check on Xiao Qing."

In an instant, she too returned to the Time Villa.

She also had little interest in ancient times.

Wang Bo turned to look at Diana, who smiled slightly and said, "I'm actually quite interested in ancient times, since this is a scenery I've never seen before."

When Diana left Themyscira, it was already the World War I era.

She had never seen such an authentic ancient life, so naturally she wanted to experience it.

Wang Bo had Bumblebee avoid pedestrians and drove the car near the city. Then he and Diana got out, changed into ancient clothes to follow local customs, put Bumblebee back into the Time Villa, and strode into the city.

Diana, as a tall Amazon warrior, even in a palace dress, could not hide her exotic charm. As she entered the city and walked on the streets paved with bluestone slabs, she still attracted many gazes.

But she was long accustomed to this situation and wore a very composed expression.

After all, in the DC world, whether as Wonder Woman or as the president of Paradise Group, she was a heavyweight figure. Wherever she went, she was the absolute center of attention, exposed to all kinds of lights.

She had seen the grand scene of hundreds of thousands of people staring at her alone, let alone now—this was only a few people.

Wang Bo walked beside Diana, like a little attendant beside a queen, completely inconspicuous.

His limelight was entirely overshadowed by Diana.

But since the two weren't walking a runway, Wang Bo didn't care at all.

Wang Bo had seen the scenery inside the ancient city many times before, so walking on the road gave him no sense of novelty. Diana, on the other hand, was full of curiosity.

She stopped and went along the way, scanning her gaze in all directions, satisfying her curiosity.

Finally, the two stopped in front of an inn and walked in.

The inn had two floors. The lower floor was mostly slightly well-off commoners dining. A waiter came over and, seeing Wang Bo and Diana's clothes, knew they were not ordinary people.

"This way, please, upstairs. There are fine private rooms upstairs."

Wang Bo nodded and followed the waiter upstairs. He noticed that the diners on the second floor were mostly martial arts heroes, each carrying swords or blades, never letting go of their weapons.

Seeing this, Wang Bo couldn't help but guess that this world might be a martial arts world.

Wang Bo was actually no stranger to martial arts worlds. The Detective Dee world he had visited was, in a sense, also a martial arts world.

However, the Detective Dee world didn't have many experts.

Yuchi Zhenjin, who had dealt with Wang Bo, was already considered one of the top experts in the world, but he could only leap several zhang at a time and couldn't even release a sword aura.

Thus, the martial power in the Detective Dee world was actually not high.

In contrast, in this world, Wang Bo had just swept his gaze across the second floor and noticed that these martial arts heroes and warriors all had bulging temples and profound internal energy. Many of them could even defeat Yuchi Zhenjin.

This indicated that the martial power in this world should not be low.

Entering the private room, Wang Bo sat down on a chair, took out a gold coin, and placed it on the table. "Waiter, I want to ask you a few questions. If you answer truthfully, this is yours."

The waiter, having served so many martial arts heroes here, should know quite a bit about the martial world.

The waiter might not know what currency the gold coin was, but he knew gold was gold. That alone was enough to make him nod repeatedly. "Sir, feel free to ask. I'll tell you everything I know."

Wang Bo said, "Waiter, do you know which major sects exist in the current martial world?"

"Of course I do," the waiter said without hesitation. "Shaolin, Quanzhen, and the Xingxiu Sect, which wiped out the Twelve Linked Strongholds a few days ago—they are all major sects, very prestigious."

Wang Bo was completely baffled.

He knew Shaolin, and he knew Quanzhen. He even knew the Xingxiu Sect.

But how were these things mixed together?

As far as Wang Bo knew, the Quanzhen Sect had appeared in many worlds, such as The Legend of the Condor Heroes, The Return of the Condor Heroes, and The Jade Bow of the Sea of Clouds.

However, in The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Return of the Condor Heroes, when the Quanzhen Sect appeared, the Xingxiu Sect didn't seem to exist yet.

By that time, the Xingxiu Sect should have been long dead, not even a ghost left.

If this was the world of The Jade Bow of the Sea of Clouds, then what was the Xingxiu Sect doing here?

It just didn't match up.

Wang Bo was very surprised and couldn't help asking further, "And who is the leader of the Xingxiu Sect?"

The waiter said, "Naturally, it's the Star-Old Immortal, Ding Chunqiu!"

Wang Bo: ...

He knew Ding Chunqiu too—a traitor of the Tianshan Sect in the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. But if this was the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, where did Quanzhen come from?

And what was the Twelve Linked Strongholds? Wang Bo had never heard of it.

Wang Bo couldn't help frowning, feeling that this world seemed even stranger than he had imagined.

Could it be a hodgepodge martial arts world?

However, when Wang Bo asked if there were Wudang and Emei sects in this world, the waiter said he had never heard of them.

This made Wang Bo deny his earlier guess. This was not a hodgepodge martial arts world at all.