Two tiny figures carried the enormous Stone Stele hand in hand, skipping away into the Dense Forest.
An unknown amount of time passed, and the sky darkened. The skinny man lying in the grass slowly woke before the fat man...
Slowly opening his eyes, Zhixuan suddenly felt a sharp pain at the back of his head. He raised a hand to feel it and found a large bump.
"Hiss!"
Monk Zhixuan shook his head with a grimace. Turning to look at the fat Daoist Mude, who was still asleep beside him, he casually gave him a light pat, landing right on the back of Mude's head.
"Ow!"
Mude sprang up, clutching his head as he looked at Zhixuan in bewilderment...
"Why did you hit me?" Mude looked at Zhixuan, his face full of wariness and displeasure.
"I wasn't the one who hit you..."
Zhixuan held his head, his face contorted with pain.
"What's wrong with you?" Seeing what Zhixuan was doing, Mude immediately asked in confusion.
Zhixuan stiffly shook his head and pointed at it. "I don't know. My head just hurts a little. Feels like someone hit me with a brick..."
Mude shook his head. Pain registered in several places from head to toe, and he immediately grimaced too. "That damned... Celestial Venerable... why do I feel like I wasn't just hit with a brick..."
"...but kicked a couple of times too?"
Mude felt pain not only in his head, but also in his lower back. One hand reached for the back of his head, the other for his waist.
The hand that had just touched his waist suddenly trembled. He felt around a couple more times, then could not help lowering his head to look at his waist. His expression immediately froze.
"That damned Celestial Venerable, our Storage