"Eternal Life..."
"Be careful..."
"He... has already noticed you."
Su Mo jolted awake from his sleep and looked around in bewilderment.
Bai Zhi and Little Xuanji were still beside him, meditating without speaking, yet those words felt as real as if someone had just spoken them to him.
They echoed in his mind like a nightmare...
Somewhat familiar.
As though he had heard them somewhere before...
Suddenly, Su Mo's Divine Soul trembled, and he sharply raised his head to look into the void.
Eternal Life, be careful. He has already noticed you!
These were the words that the phantom of the Demon Moon Great Emperor in the Forbidden Land had spoken to him back in the Mortal Realm.
That sense of familiarity welled up in his heart again, as though someone held his fate in their hands.
This feeling seemed to have always been with him. It had lingered in his heart when he was in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, and even after he had left them.
It had never disappeared.
"Senior brother, what's wrong?" Bai Zhi opened her eyes from meditation and looked at the weakened Su Mo.
Su Mo slowly shook his head and gave Bai Zhi a faint smile. "Nothing. I had a nightmare."
Bai Zhi walked over to Su Mo and said gently, "Don't be afraid, senior brother. Zhi'er is always here."
A cool breeze blew past, stirring a strand of hair before Bai Zhi's forehead and lending her features an air of poetry.
Su Mo nodded weakly, leaned against the Void Beast again, and slowly closed his eyes.
A deep weariness seemed to linger on his pale, bloodless face, refusing to fade.
Bai Zhi quietly stayed beside Su Mo, her expression seemingly filled with endless helplessness...
The silence of this world of ice