Moonlight rose, carrying a hint of coolness, and spread over Pass City.
The silver moonlight was like a white robe, reflected in the palace pond, shimmering and spilling across it.
Su Mo busied himself planting peach pits one after another, then looked up at the bright moon, his expression distant.
Lowering his head to look at the holes where he had planted them, Su Mo pictured the Border Pass with peach blossoms covering its mountains and could not help murmuring to himself.
"It should look a lot like that place..."
A cool breeze swept in, but no one could answer that question...
On the second floor of the Divine Nest, Wu Qian watched the graceful white-robed figure bathed in moonlight in the courtyard, her expression distant.
After a long while, Wu Qian slowly turned and left.
As though sensing something, Su Mo glanced back. The Brush of All Living Beings atop his head suddenly spoke. "Your maid seems to be longing..."
"Shut up!" Su Mo snapped irritably.
"..." The Brush of All Living Beings was speechless, then fell silent.
Su Mo flew to the top of the Divine Nest, stood on its ornate roof, then casually sat down, gazing at the city within the pass below the mountain.
Seeming to remember something suddenly, Su Mo said to the Brush of All Living Beings, "I think something was wrong with this Beast Tide."
For some reason, Su Mo kept feeling that the Immortal-Slaying Net's killing strike he had encountered in the Forbidden Land had some connection to this Beast Tide.
He simply could not say exactly what it was.
This Beast Tide had retreated as soon as it met resistance, as though it had been a...
...probe!
After the Beast Tide withdrew into the land of primordial chaos, its trail vanished,