When Su Mo cautiously left the deep pool, the long-haired women in the water still showed no reaction.
It was as though everything he had seen earlier had been an illusion.
Su Mo turned back from the opposite bank and gazed at the deep pool beneath the hazy moonlight, still feeling an inexplicable eeriness.
In the hazy night, only faint moonlight shone upon the water. The densely packed strands of long hair floating on its surface sent a chill through him.
"You said just now that you seemed to sense another eerie presence. Can you still sense it?"
The Brush of All Living Beings hid atop Su Mo's bound hair, constantly surveying everything around them.
Su Mo shook his head. He did seem to have sensed a different presence earlier, but it had vanished in a flash.
It also seemed to have been that eerie presence that had restored calm to everything in the pool.
"When you followed that Old Codger you mentioned to ascend to immortality, did you pass this deep pool?" Su Mo turned and asked the Brush of All Living Beings.
The Brush of All Living Beings thought for a long time, then answered with absolute certainty, "No!"
Su Mo frowned. If this deep pool had not existed on the Immortal Path before, that meant it had appeared after the Immortal Path underwent its strange transformation.
Yet Ji Ting had clearly passed this pool and gone farther ahead.
Then... how had Ji Ting made it across this deep pool?
The eeriness of this deep pool defied imagination...
Why had such an eerie pool appeared? And just what state were those women in the water in?
What exactly was hidden within this deep pool?
Out of habit, Su Mo pondered everything about the pool. He did not consider