"Liang Zhu, your Junior Martial Uncle Taiping and Martial Aunt Buyu will open the heavenly gate together at Qingxuan's ancestral grounds in half a month. Return to Qingxuan at once to witness the ceremony."
"Xu Chengling is also training in the Chaos Death Domain. The two of you can look out for each other on your way back."
In the pitch-black Chaos Death Domain, Liang Zhu stood atop a floating mountain, gazing at a Jade Slip in her hand with delighted surprise.
The message on the Jade Slip had come from her master, Dugu Qingxiao.
After gazing at the Jade Slip for a long while, Liang Zhu suddenly sighed with emotion.
"Eight hundred years. Martial Uncle Taiping and Martial Aunt Buyu, that match made in heaven, can finally fulfill their wish and ascend hand in hand."
Then she snapped her fingers toward the darkness ahead with a crisp snap and called out:
"Whale Song, come out. It's time we returned to Qingxuan."
As she spoke, a white whale a hundred zhang long, its entire body suffused with a moonlit halo, suddenly burst through the chaos with a boom and appeared before Liang Zhu.
This was Liang Zhu's mount, Whale Song.
During the hundred-odd years Liang Zhu had spent here training against Chaos Demonic Beasts, this white whale had been her only companion.
"Oh, and that fool from Mount Bukong."
Liang Zhu murmured to herself as she took out her Communication Jade Slip and said calmly:
"Foo- ahem, Fellow Daoist Chengling, Junior Martial Uncle Taiping's ascension is imminent. I'm about to set out for the Azure Profound Sect's ancestral grounds. If it's convenient, we can travel together."
After sending the message, she swiftly tucked the Jade Slip into her sleeve, as though it were burning her hand.
Boom! Rumble, rumble, rumble...