Meanwhile, as Cheng Yu enjoyed his leisurely days...
In the forest south of West Sea Prefecture, on the Eastern Continent.
Boom!!!
A tremendous roar shook the heavens.
Thick, dark gray fog dimmed the sky, lending an eerie air to the once lush forest below.
An enormous, heavily muscled hand crushed a delicate-featured head.
A voice that sounded neither male nor female, neither old nor young, echoed through the forest, somewhere between a whisper and a shriek.
"Surely the Bull Ancestor has already sensed something. The truth of this world, your encounter with that being-it was all a game to amuse a supreme existence. Don't you want to know the truth?"
In the forest, a fiendishly muscular figure stood on ground riddled with spiderweb cracks and spoke without expression.
"I don't want to know. Right now, I only want to tear you apart and swallow you."
The voice continued murmuring.
"Hehehe, just as expected of the Bull Ancestor. Even a Holy Spirit would struggle to escape the ocean of truth upon entering the True Knowledge Sacred Domain, yet you can come and go freely. It seems that being truly was fond of you back then, so much so that... without even realizing it, they bestowed such a generous gift upon you. You... Aah!!!"
Before the voice could finish, it let out a piercing wail, as though it had suffered a devastating blow.
At the same time, the dim sky shattered. Dressed in a white brocade robe, Shen Bai stepped out of a spatial rift with one hand behind his back and a writhing mass of gray fog in the other.
He chuckled.
"You talked too much. It gave me all the time I needed."
Looking at the gray fog in his hand, Shen Bai maintained his air of elegant nobility as