Searching and searching, lost in a haze.
Within the Greed Dream of the Sumeru Purification Terrace, an alluring sense of emptiness and unreality filled the entire world.
"Dean, where are you taking me?"
Su Mo followed the Dean through the void again and again, arriving in an empty world.
The green-robed Dean turned to look at Su Mo's delicate features and weathered white hair, then sighed deeply.
"I had no time to tell you back then. Thinking about it now, I should still tell you."
Su Mo stiffened and looked blankly at the Dean.
The Dean raised a hand. With that light, airy wave, he tore open the void.
The Dean led Su Mo into the spatial rift, arriving above a vast Dark River.
Su Mo trembled slightly at the sight before him, his expression bewildered.
Before him lay a river, a river of pitch-black water. A flat stone bridge spanned it, leading straight to the opposite bank.
Su Mo was very familiar with this place. This was where he had come on his second visit to the Divine Realm.
Back then, a lingering thought of the Confucian Sage had still remained on the opposite bank...
He had even fished two of Girl's handkerchiefs out of this river.
The Dean slowly stepped onto the Stone Bridge, and Su Mo followed close beside him.
The dim eternal lamps along both banks slowly lit up, as though illuminating Su Mo's path ahead.
The river breeze swept onto the Stone Bridge, lifting Su Mo's long hair.
The Dean gazed deeply at the river, his expression complicated and sorrowful. "You should already know that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths is a Floating Leaf drifting upon a river."
"Have you ever wondered why all the strange phenomena in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths