Su Mo gave Wu Qian two long, searching looks. He said nothing more and merely nodded calmly.
"Let's go. The Ji Clan sent word that the Forbidden Land has opened."
He knew Wu Qian had something weighing on her mind: the deeply buried resentment toward the Emperor Throne Incense in her earlier words, and her desire to enter the Forbidden Land.
Every one of these signs was telling Su Mo something, and he had a rough guess himself.
Su Mo simply did not know the full story, but he believed Wu Qian would tell him. There was no hurry.
Perhaps Spirit Beast Mountain was not as simple as it appeared, either. At least, an ordinary mountain would not have... an Eyeless Ghost Beast.
Just as Su Mo was about to leave, he suddenly stopped and turned to look at the Hairpin on the table.
After a moment's thought, Su Mo picked up the Hairpin after all...
A golden light flared, and Su Mo and Wu Qian vanished into thin air from the spirit beasts' Ancestral Mountain.
After the two left, the Divine Maiden's figure slowly appeared. She walked over to the stone chair where Su Mo had been sitting and, after a moment's thought, raised the tea and slowly began to drink.
The sweetness of the tea flowed into the Divine Maiden's mouth, and a trace of bewilderment crept involuntarily across her face...
Amid a broad expanse of towering mountains, an enormous bronze gate stood alone.
Beneath the bronze gate was a massive altar. Within that stone gate lay utter darkness, as though it led to another world.
Below the altar, a group from the Ji Clan slowly arrived. They seemed to be waiting for something and were in no hurry to enter the Ancient Forbidden Land.
Countless onlookers