Qingfu's eyes shone brightly as she rode atop the Flameglow Scarlet Ancient Lion and shouted at the top of her lungs, overcome with delight.
As for why she was so delighted, they would naturally have to return to the sect and see what Chi Hao had done...
Roar~~
Behind the Flameglow Scarlet Ancient Lion's large head followed over a hundred Flameglow Scarlet Ancient Lions, all uniformly in the Spirit Transformation Realm. There was no grand return of a king, no single raised arm answered by a million mighty clansmen.
Only around a hundred old, weak, sick, and disabled lions had come, and they looked like a ragtag rabble.
Yue Xuan let out a roar, his face brimming with joy as the words burst from him. "What?! Sixth Senior Brother and Master are really alive!"
"Bullshit!"
Boom—
Yuan Chengsi spoke irritably from the ground, his voice like thunder. With a single roar, he sent the rabble in the air tumbling back down to the earth.
Chen Xun could not help laughing, though he still had an arm around his master's shoulders.
Yet his peripheral vision could not help drifting toward those little mountain gods. There were such beings in the Jade Bamboo Mountains as well—honest deities with neither schemes nor ambitions. They cultivated the Divine Dao rather than the Immortal Dao, living without contention.
They seemed to have been common in ancient times, yet were now difficult to encounter again.
Rumble...
At that moment, they hurried over and formed a circle around Chen Xun and Yuan Chengsi.
"Ninth, Tenth, how did you get here?" Yuan Chengsi's brows knitted tightly, and his tone was especially stern. "Demons and devils are wreaking havoc across the world now. They take pride in killing disciples of our sect."
He spoke with utmost gravity. The cruelty