Although Ji Kongling had already determined the visitor's identity from the aura just now, the sight of this Black Bird still filled him with a faint unease.
"So it is Senior Black Bird. Kongling pays his respects to Senior Black Bird." Ji Kongling bowed deeply to the black crow.
Black Bird looked at Ji Kongling, a trace of helplessness in his eyes.
Ji Kongling immediately caught the look in Black Bird's eyes, and his face sank. "Senior Black Bird... could it be?"
"Could it be that Blackstone Master has already..."
Black Bird sighed and nodded. "That's right. Blackstone has cultivated to the third tier of the Grand Venerable Realm."
Ji Kongling's face went deathly pale at once. "Then, Senior, have you come to take my body?"
It turned out that Ji Kongling had long known that when a third-tier Grand Venerable Realm expert forged an external incarnation, they needed to seize another person's body.
Cultivation in the Grand Venerable Realm was exceedingly mysterious to Void Realm cultivators. Very few knew how Grand Venerable Realm cultivation worked.
Yet Ji Kongling was an exception. He was extraordinarily intelligent and had long sensed that the existence of immortal domains was somewhat suspicious. After all, no cultivator would help others cultivate for no reason at all when there was no profit to be gained.
When Grand Venerable Realm experts established immortal domains for others to cultivate in, aside from increasing the strength of their own immortal domains, they must surely have other aims.
Thus, ever since entering the Blackstone Mountain Range, he had begun investigating in secret.
Heaven did not disappoint the diligent. Through his own outstanding abilities, he came into contact with the attendant who had always remained hidden at Blackstone Master's side—the very Senior Black Bird now standing before him.
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