After flying above Formless Island, Song Wen swept toward the herb garden.
Chen Yi, however, followed him into his little courtyard within the garden.
The moment they entered the courtyard, Chen Yi asked a question.
"Senior Yang Yu, do you think the evil spirit cultivators will really come to besiege the Gai Family?"
"Hard to say," Song Wen replied. "We have too little information. All we've heard are a few scattered words, hardly enough to judge whether it's true."
"Ah..." Chen Yi sighed deeply. "I thought joining the Gai Family would let me cultivate in peace. I never expected that there would still be no end to the turmoil."
"The tree longs for stillness, yet the wind will not cease. The cultivation world has always been this way!" Song Wen said. "The Gai Family might look like a sheltered harbor where one can cultivate in peace, but it's actually at the heart of the whirlpool. Since we've pledged ourselves to the Gai Family, we must naturally bear its internal struggles and external threats as well."
"But... is there nowhere peaceful in the Immortal Realm?" Chen Yi's eyes were filled with bewilderment.
Song Wen narrowed his eyes slightly and gazed up at the azure sky.
Before ascending, he had also thought that once he became an immortal, he would no longer be constrained by his lifespan and might finally live free and unfettered.
He had even experienced such a stretch of years during his inner tribulation.
Yet now, having successfully reached the Lingxu Dao Immortal Realm, he had resolutely joined the Gai Family alongside Chen Yi over a small grudge from the Return-to-Ruins Cave Secret Realm, willingly casting himself into this whirlpool.
Unlike Chen Yi, he actually hoped the news of the evil spirit cultivators besieging the Gai Family was true.