The lion flew through the air, his four paws stepping lightly as he shook his head and swished his tail all the way, looking exceedingly happy.
Cheng Xinzhan sat on the lion's back, his right leg folded beneath him and his left hanging naturally down. He looked relaxed and at ease as well.
Though his victory had been somewhat less than honorable and had relied on help from several quarters, he had, after all, personally finished off a Fourth Realm Demon Fiend. That feeling was different. Moreover, killing a Demon Fiend who had committed all manner of evil and breathing new life into Limitless Mountain, with its many years of heritage, were deeds of considerable merit.
He regulated his breathing for a while, and the surging blood caused by the Demon Path cultivator's self-detonation of his Golden Core, along with the weakness from excessive expenditure of magical power, gradually subsided.
Watching the lion shake his head and swish his tail, he could not help laughing and asking,
"What has you so happy?"
The lion replied,
"Master always says how wonderful the immortal mountain is, and Daoist Feng says so too. White Dragon and Zhaoli both say it's wonderful. Now that I'm going back to the immortal mountain too, how could your servant not be happy? I want to see the Goddess Peak Zhaoli told me about, to see Lord Kui Mountain, to see the Eastern Heaven Road above the clouds, to see Three Dragons Emerging from the Sea, and to see the Lotus Blessed Land."
Cheng Xinzhan smiled at that. Hearing the lion say this, he seemed to miss it very much himself. Yet it was strange: he had lived in the mountains for decades and had even found time to return last year. It had not been long at