The Ancestral Image World looked no different from the world outside. Su Mo and the Brush of All Living Beings did not join the commotion surrounding the Twelve Wonders of the Immortal Domain, but silently headed toward their destination.
"What was the Old Codger thinking back then, burying his belongings in the Ancestral Image World?" Su Mo asked the Brush of All Living Beings as he flew.
The Brush of All Living Beings glanced at Su Mo, then calmly asked in return, "The Ancestral Image World holds the Ancestral Grounds of all the grotto-heavens in the Immortal Domain. Who would dig things up here?"
"He buried them here precisely because he didn't want anyone digging up what he left behind."
Su Mo pondered this for a long while, then nodded. "He was about to die. What was the point of keeping all that stuff?"
The Brush of All Living Beings curled his lip. "Would you want your confidantes marrying other men after you died?"
Su Mo immediately shook his head.
"There you have it!" the Brush of All Living Beings said mysteriously. "To the Old Codger, these things were his confidantes!"
"Naturally, he had to bury them properly!"
Su Mo frowned. "But for us to just take them away like this..."
The Brush of All Living Beings swayed impatiently. "We're different. We're the Old Codger's inheritors! Who would want their own son to have no mother?"
Listening to the Brush of All Living Beings, Su Mo kept feeling that something was off. Somehow, he felt he was being taken advantage of.
But the person taking advantage of him was already dead.
And they had even brought this upon themselves... in short...
It was complicated!
As they spoke, the man and brush soon arrived before an enormous stone gate, flanked by