Old Dog

A distinguished guest?!

Not only did Li Shanjia and the others look surprised—even Demon Calamity wore a strange expression.

With Di Ting here, who else could be called a distinguished guest?

Never mind them, mere mounts. Even the famous Demon Kings of the Netherworld and the rulers of the Netherworld's courts wouldn't dare slight him.

Wasn't Xiao Ran afraid of offending Di Ting by saying that?

Yet Di Ting kept smiling, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.

His gaze only occasionally drifted to the bell in Xiao Ran's hand and the tuft of dog fur. It seemed he already knew who the distinguished guest was.

Faced with everyone's puzzled looks, Xiao Ran offered no explanation.

Following Yi Yi's instructions, he took a strand of dog fur and stuck it onto the black dog in front of Ah Huang's spirit tablet.

He drew a deep breath, then gently shook the copper bell in his hand.

"Jingle!"

The bell rang out, hollow and lingering. Though everyone stood close to Xiao Ran, the sound seemed faint, as if it were fading into the distance—ringing out in another space entirely.

The Unreturning Forest on You Mountain.

A carriage slowly emerged from the woods.

It was an extremely splendid carriage, as large as a house. Its entire body was covered in wood as dark as ink, with golden threads glimmering faintly across it. A gentle warmth seemed to flow within the wood.

The frigid wind outside howled like a blade, yet it couldn't come within a hair's breadth of the carriage.

Two Exotic Species resembling Qilin carved from black jade pulled it. Their hooves made no sound as they trampled through phantom images, and with every step, the surrounding Yin Qi retreated like the tide.

This carriage was Xie Jie the Great