"Moo..." Black Bull softly snorted, relieved.
"Old Bull, Little Scarlet... how are they?"
"...Moo~"
Black Bull answered absentmindedly. They had been settled as well, buried in the Heavenly Chasm Plains alongside Frog Daoist, Mountain-Seated Duck, and the others.
Chen Xun nodded silently. That was good.
This farewell was far calmer than the one from countless ages ago, with far fewer regrets. It was like seeing off former neighbors, one after another—natural and unforced, except there were far too many more of them than before.
"Big Brother, Second Brother~"
At that moment, a woman in a black dress appeared like a gust of wind. She spoke softly, "Everything beyond the borders has been settled. All fellow Daoists rest in peace and safety."
To settle them was also to protect them.
If True Immortal bodies did not choose Ancient Transformation, strange and inexplicable things would always be born from them after hundreds of millions of years. To prevent corpse transformation, they had to be properly laid to rest.
Yet unexpectedly—
Ominous Ancestor and Filth Beast Turtle had not even outlasted Meng Sheng. The former perished amid the decay of the Finality Immortal Gate, saying that if there was another life, he would still follow the Dao Ancestor. The latter seemed to have starved to death, or perhaps fallen into an eternal slumber.
After Meng Sheng underwent Ancient Transformation,
it was as though a silent proclamation had been made to Tiandi—
the Eternal Ancient Lineage had wholly fallen, and the grand era of Tiandi that belonged solely to Eternal Ancient had completely drawn to a close.
Yet it ended without a sound, in utter stillness.
The ones seeing it to its end were Chen Xun's family.
In the vast and boundless Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory, only three figures remained in the end: Chen