Unable to find the visitor no matter how he searched, Sky-Gazing Hound grew increasingly uneasy.
He possessed late-Mahayana cultivation, making him one of the ceiling-level figures of the entire Spirit Realm.
By all rights, any existence before him should have had nowhere to hide.
Yet now someone was toying with him, and he could not find where that person was hiding.
Seeing that the time was ripe, the remnant soul finally released a wisp of aura and spoke unhurriedly.
"Sky-Gazing Hound, after so long, you still haven't improved in the slightest."
"Xu Chunniang?!"
Sensing that familiar aura, shock appeared in Sky-Gazing Hound's eyes as he looked around in astonishment.
"Is that you? Didn't you ascend a thousand years ago? How did you return to the Spirit Realm?"
So her name was Xu Chunniang, and she had actually ascended a thousand years ago?
From Sky-Gazing Hound's tone, it seemed that his relationship with her had once been quite good.
Charred Bone noted down the important information but still did not reveal herself, merely saying,
"I did indeed ascend. Does ascending mean I cannot come back to visit you old friends?"
"You came back to see me out of the goodness of your heart?"
After learning that the visitor was Xu Chunniang, Sky-Gazing Hound instead relaxed. So it was Xu Chunniang, who had long since ascended and become an immortal—no wonder he had detected nothing.
Sky-Gazing Hound snapped back, not forgetting to roll his eyes.
"Back when we were in the Demon Realm, we may not have fallen out completely, but we went our separate ways. You came to Heavenly God Academy to visit President Hua Yao, didn't you?"
Charred Bone followed Sky-Gazing Hound's words. "That's right. Where is Hua Yao now?"
"The president left Heavenly God Academy centuries ago. No one