A world vanished before Gu Qingshan's eyes.
At the same time, another world rushed toward him, rapidly unfolding before his eyes.
Light.
Scattered.
The world brightened.
Trees shaded the land, and the streams ran clear.
Gu Qingshan found himself in a mountain forest, standing on a rock beside a stream.
The scenery all around him was pleasant, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
But since this was the memory of the divine beast Qilin, it surely couldn't be just a stretch of scenery.
Gu Qingshan stood quietly on the rock for a while.
Before long, he saw a gray wild dog leading a pack of wild dogs to drink by the stream.
After drinking, they didn't leave at once. Instead, they gathered on the grassy bank to play and frolic, tumbling around with one another.
Everything seemed perfectly ordinary.
Until—
Gu Qingshan suddenly turned his head.
A woman of peerless beauty emerged from the void and stood by the stream.
Countless stars evolved behind her, being born and destroyed.
Reneedol!
Gu Qingshan's heart jolted.
Earlier, in Heavenly Pillar City, those fragmented worlds had shown her destroying fragments of the Six Paths. He hadn't expected that she had once appeared on Mount Sumeru, too.
Reneedol's arrival naturally caught the wild dogs' attention.
Their senses were keen. As if they'd sensed something, they turned and tried to flee deep into the woods.
But no matter how they ran, they could only race in place, unable to move an inch.
"Mount Sumeru actually has no Ascension Road. It's truly different from other Cultivation Worlds," Reneedol murmured to herself.
She pondered silently for a moment, then suddenly looked toward the pack of wild dogs nearby.
"Even if Yama Heaven is destroyed, a tribulation realm like Mount Sumeru will be born again after some