Ten years later.
Taiyi Great World, Profound Subtle Heaven Domain, Mortal Realm of the Human Race.
Tea Mountain.
This place was tranquil and free of strife. Tea blossoms drifted across the mountains, yet this tranquility was not silence by one's ears, but the absence of conflict within one's heart, as though it bore the most beautiful wishes hidden deep in cultivators' hearts.
The departed were always like this as well.
Between heaven and earth, the breeze was like poetry, brushing lightly past with a touch of ethereality and tenderness.
On the grassland atop the mountain, tea blossoms drifting through the hills gently fell, layer upon layer, slowly covering that spotless tombstone.
Even the hempen garment that fluttered softly in the wind had now become a floral robe. It draped over the tombstone as though silently guarding it until eternity.
Today.
Chen Xun brought Black Bull before Yao Yue's tombstone.
Tap...
Their footsteps drew nearer as they silently looked upon the tombstone weathered by the winds and frosts of time.
Black Bull took out the incense burner it had forged and silently went aside to perform rites for Yao Yue, offering her Merit. This had always been its habit, hoping they could be reborn through reincarnation.
As for whether such a thing truly existed, back when it was in the Small Realm, it would ask, investigate, and seek to prove it through the Immortal Dao.
But having come this far, Black Bull no longer investigated or questioned anything. It would only do what its heart believed to be right, without caring for the eyes of others.
It remembered their first visit here.
It had lashed out at Chen Xun. The latter had been ridden on its head and beaten up without daring to fight back. Yao Yue had died because Chen