Outside the Forest of Miracles, before a thick, short tree stump that had been shaved flat.
Mei Suren held a white stone in hand and gazed into the distance, staring at the Demon Emperor Black Dragon high in the sky, unable to place his piece for a long while.
"Is Xu Xiaoshou really all right...?"
After Rao Yaoyao released him from the First Hall of Sin, Mei Suren had not immediately left Void Island, because the Communication Talisman still had a response.
It could point out a direction, which meant Xu Xiaoshou had yet to leave.
The student had not gone; how could the teacher leave first?
What if he left ahead of time, only for Xu Xiaoshou to meet with misfortune afterward? What then?
With such thoughts in mind, Mei Suren followed the Communication Talisman's guidance, concealing himself as he hurried all the way toward Fallen Abyss.
Unexpectedly, outside the Forest of Miracles, he encountered an "uninvited guest."
That fellow was like an ordinary mortal wandering beneath an apocalyptic calamity, carrying not the slightest aura of an ancient swordsman or a spirit cultivator.
He too was traveling, but at his leisure.
He did not fly or escape through space. He traveled solely on foot, taking "uninvited" to the absolute extreme.
Mei Suren instinctively overlooked that person's existence.
Only when he realized that Void Island could not possibly contain an ordinary mortal did he stop his sword flight and descend to the ground.
What he saw was a familiar profile: sword-like brows, muddy yellow eyes, and beneath that despondence, a faint trace of former heroic vigor.
Looking lower, he could see a scar on the man's neck and only eight fingers on his hands.
"Xu Xiaoshou?"
At the time, Mei Suren had thought this was a form Xu Xiaoshou had