"It was cold on the Path to Immortality, terribly desolate."
"I pressed on along the Path to Immortality, looking at the bones strewn across the ground, and felt a helplessness I had never known before..."
"Only then did I finally understand: Ascend to Immortality was like climbing to heaven!"
"No one in this world could possibly make it through the Path to Immortality..."
Demon Sage Piaomiao's voice drifted into the cave, seeming to carry an indescribable sorrow.
Su Mo looked at the Demon Sage's back and suddenly asked, "Senior, did you once hope to traverse the Path to Immortality too, to Ascend to Immortality and transcend?"
The Demon Sage sighed deeply, turned around, and gently shook her head. "I only wanted to recover a set of bones left behind on the Path to Immortality."
Bones... Su Mo immediately understood. The Demon Sage wanted to recover her father's remains.
"So you walked the Path to Immortality to recover your father's remains?" Su Mo asked.
The Demon Sage nodded. "The Path to Immortality is unbearably desolate. I couldn't leave him there forever."
"Unfortunately, he went too far. I couldn't reach the place where he fell..."
Wind and rain swept through the night, lashing the silent woods until there was nothing but the sound of rain.
The autumn rain brought no thunder, only bleakness.
Su Mo sighed. "When I set foot on the Path to Immortality, I'll bring the Former Demon Sage's remains back."
But he did not know how far he himself could go...
Looking at the Demon Sage, Su Mo suddenly seemed unable to sense that aversion in her anymore.
A trace of a smile appeared in the Demon Sage's eyes as she looked at Su Mo, but she quickly concealed it and regarded him mockingly.
"What makes you think you