On their way back from the Immortal Puppet Pavilion, Chu Yunyun and Wen Zhuyi walked side by side without saying a word to each other.
Both were silent, with no inclination to chat. The atmosphere was cold and awkward.
As a child, Chu Yunyun had indeed idolized Wen Zhuyi, deeply admiring this heroine who had once stood as an equal to the Blood-Yazi Saber Lord.
But people changed.
Twenty years later, her idol stood before her, yet Chu Yunyun's state of mind had changed completely.
Not only did she feel no admiration for Wen Zhuyi, she instead felt an intense wariness toward her.
That wariness encompassed every aspect.
So much so that, as they walked together, Chu Yunyun kept her hand wrapped around the toothpick-sized Godslaying Spear in her sleeve.
Still, Chu Yunyun spared a little attention to think about what she had just seen in the Immortal Puppet Pavilion.
Divine Ao was indeed dead. He had sealed the vast majority of his Primordial Spirit inside a piece of Soul-Nourishing Wood.
The Soul-Nourishing Wood was extremely old. It was probably a primordial object, something born before Pangu had split heaven and earth apart, and was extraordinarily precious.
For that reason, Divine Ao Rogue Person's soul had been preserved exceptionally well.
But the reason Divine Ao Rogue Person could still think after thirty-seven hundred years was that he had refined his own brain into a magic artifact, preserving it in a crystal jar filled with green fluid.
Through various leather-wrapped metal wires, this artifact brain also controlled the many puppets within the Cloudsea Immortal Palace.
This artifact brain had inherited all of Divine Ao Rogue Person's memories, thoughts, and will, but whether he could be called "Divine Ao Rogue Person" was another matter.
Still, they could put their concerns about Divine