The appearance of the purple aura made the boy focus his mind completely. He even stopped exhaling, only inhaling lightly and slowly, while his eyes stared intently at that flickering trace of purple.

The purple aura did not last long. When the pale light of dawn in the east was gradually covered by the rising sun, the purple aura had already completely disappeared.

Only then did the boy slowly close his eyes and exhale a long breath of turbid air from his body. A stream of white air, like a ribbon, was expelled from his mouth and then slowly dissipated.

After sitting quietly for a while, the boy opened his eyes again. Perhaps because of the influence of that purple aura on the horizon, a faint purple glimmer flashed in his eyes. Although this purple color did not last long before quietly fading away, while it existed, it was so clear.

With a dejected sigh, the boy made an expression of helplessness that should never appear at his age. He shook his head and muttered to himself, “It still doesn’t work. My Xuan Tian Skill is still unable to break through the first bottleneck. It’s already been three whole months—why is this? Even the Purple Demon Eye, which can only be cultivated at dawn when the purple aura comes from the east, has always been improving. If Xuan Tian Skill can’t break through, my Mysterious Jade Hand can’t be improved any further. When I was cultivating before, I didn’t seem to encounter this situation between the first and second levels. There are nine levels in total for Xuan Tian Skill—why is the first one already so troublesome? Could it be because this world is different from the one I came from?”

He had already been in this world for more than five years. The child before us was the very same William Carter who once leapt off a cliff at Tang Sect to prove his resolve. When he awoke from unconsciousness, he found that he could do nothing but feel warmth. But the death he expected did not come. Soon, he arrived in this world through a process that felt like being squeezed through a narrow passage.

It was only much later that William Carter understood what had happened. He had not died, but he was no longer the same William Carter as before.

After being born, it took William Carter nearly a year to learn the language of this world. He still remembered that when he was born, though he could not open his eyes to see, he heard a deep male voice crying out in heart-wrenching grief. When he learned the language of this world and recalled it with his extraordinary memory, he could only remember that the man seemed to be shouting, “Sanmei, don’t leave me!” And that man was his father, Henry Carter. His mother in this world had already died in childbirth at that time.

Whether it was fate or coincidence, to commemorate his deceased wife, Henry Carter gave him the same name—miraculously, he was still called William Carter.

The children in the village of the same age often teased him about this, but William Carter was very satisfied in his heart. After all, it was the name he had used for nearly thirty years in another world. Just the familiarity alone had made him fond of these two characters long ago.

Coming to this world, after the initial shock and fear, then excitement, and now calm, William Carter had fully accepted reality. In his view, this was heaven giving him another chance. Perhaps the greatest wish of his previous life could be fulfilled in this one.

He came to this world with nothing, but William Carter possessed the greatest wealth—his memory. As the most outstanding genius of the Tang Sect’s outer sect, all the methods for making mechanical hidden weapons were imprinted in his mind. And after he stole the inner sect’s secret manuals, fulfilling his long-held desire, he memorized the highest Xuan Tian Record of the inner sect as well. William Carter hoped to restore the glory of Tang Sect in this world.

“It’s time to go back.” William Carter looked at the sky, his thin body leaping up and running down the mountain. If someone saw him at this moment, they would surely stare in astonishment. With each step, he could cover nearly three meters, and the uneven mountain terrain posed no obstacle to him at all. He easily dodged obstacles and moved much faster than an adult.

What is the essence of Tang Sect? Hidden weapons, poison, and lightness skill. The biggest difference between the inner and outer sects of Tang Sect lies in the use of hidden weapons. The outer sect focuses on mechanical devices, while the inner sect uses true techniques. Poison is generally used only by the outer sect; the inner sect’s direct disciples rarely use poison with their hidden weapons, because they simply don’t need to.

Chapter One: Douluo Continent, William Carter of Another World (Part Two)

The Xuan Tian Record contains only six martial arts: the internal skill Xuan Tian Skill, the hand-training method Mysterious Jade Hand, the eye-training method Purple Demon Eye, the grappling technique Controlling Crane Catching Dragon, the lightness skill Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and the hidden weapon technique, Hundred Solutions to Hidden Weapons.

The first five are the foundation. Without a solid foundation, how could one bring out the essence of Tang Sect’s hidden weapons?

He began cultivating Xuan Tian Skill at just over one year old. Now, William Carter was almost six, and he was still laying the foundation.

William Carter’s home was on the west side of Holy Soul Village, at the edge of the village. The three mud-brick houses were the most dilapidated in the whole village. On the roof of the main house, there was a wooden sign about a meter in diameter, painted with a simple hammer. In this world, the hammer most commonly represents a blacksmith.

That’s right, William Carter’s father, Henry Carter, was a blacksmith—the only blacksmith in the village.