Beneath a secluded mountain ravine in the Immortal Domain, thin clouds and mist wreathed every corner.
The Void Beast carefully set a massive peachwood door on a jutting stone platform on a cliff face.
This was the place the Brush of All Living Beings had found, but the brush had told it that there was a seal on the Peach Gate, left by Su Mo, and that it would take another thing Su Mo had given it to open it.
It could sense that there was indeed a seal on the Peach Gate, and that it did indeed bear Su Mo's aura.
The Brush of All Living Beings had also told Big Strong that these were Su Mo's instructions: it had to guard this Peach Gate well.
Then the Brush of All Living Beings had left, never to return.
It did not know that Su Mo had left this seal to buy time, so they would not return to Cold Azure Cave Heaven so quickly and discover his "deception."
Nor did it know that the Brush of All Living Beings had understood Su Mo's "painstaking intentions" the instant it saw the seal.
The Brush of All Living Beings understood... it had been "abandoned" once again.
But it also knew why Su Mo had done all this...
Following Su Mo's "lie," the Brush of All Living Beings had continued to "deceive" the Void Beast. It knew the place Big Strong held in Su Mo's heart and did not want the Void Beast to risk itself again.
But it was unwilling to let Su Mo face that catastrophe beyond life and death alone again...
And so the Void Beast guarded the Peach Gate, waiting for the Brush of All Living Beings to return so they could go back together to help its