"All right, I need to return to secluded cultivation. We'll meet again someday."
Huo Zhenyu cupped his hands as he spoke, looking eager to leave. He was probably afraid Ji Longyuan would come after him again.
Qin Jun nodded. He was still anxious to find the Desolate God and did not want to continue entangling himself with Huo Zhenyu.
Thus, Huo Zhenyu swiftly departed, while Qin Jun and the others did not linger either, heading in another direction.
On the other side of the Eight Desolations.
Ji Longyuan stood at the end of a canyon, staring ahead in silence.
"Heavenly Emperor Qin... Patriarch Bodhi..."
He clenched his fists and firmly etched those names into his memory, feeling extremely displeased.
Although his opponent's realm surpassed his own, being forced back still made him feel terrible. He, Ji Longyuan, had roamed the Inner Universe for countless years. Since becoming an Ancient Prodigy, when had he ever suffered defeat?
He was like Di Tianwu and Xiao Rushui of the Xuan Dang Universe. The difference was that the latter two had been glorious for only tens of thousands of years at most, while he had been famous for over a hundred million years, standing above countless races.
Soon after, he did not continue pursuing Qin Jun and the others. Instead, he headed north.
Though the Pearl of Cangwu tempted him greatly, he had not come to the Eight Desolations for it.
He had to hurry and obtain what he wanted.
Not long after he left, a mass of demonic qi spread over the area before transforming into a human figure.
The black shadow had a humanoid shape, but its features could not be seen. Only a pair of eyes was visible, their crescent-shaped pupils an eerily sinister purple. If anyone had been there, they