"When you take different paths, the people you meet, the scenery you see, and even where the paths end are all different..."
Ji Hong rose, his long gown fluttering in the wind.
He turned his head and looked toward the distant Eight-Tailed Fox.
As though sensing something, the Eight-Tailed Fox also looked at him.
Their gazes met across the distance.
Ji Hong still wore a smile, but that smile held a hint of mockery and brimmed with dominance!
The Eight-Tailed Fox remained expressionless, its eyes cold and sinister, like a venomous snake lurking in the darkness, trying to find Ji Hong's weakness and kill him in a single strike.
"I will win this game."
Ji Hong made no sound, merely opening and closing his mouth slightly, but the Eight-Tailed Fox seemed to understand. A trace of a smile appeared on its cold face. "I shall wait and see."
A silent reply.
But at that moment, they both understood perfectly well that, no matter what, they could not coexist.
When the great battle ended, there would be only one victor at Skyvault Ravine.
The two broke eye contact and stopped looking at each other.
Yet the will to fight welled up in their hearts.
Only Old White Ape walked alone across the Thousand-Li Demon Plain, passing among the demon beasts with his hands clasped behind his back.
"Why is it that, no matter what I do, you can never extinguish your desire to kill me?"
"What a troublesome opponent..."
"What could make you show me mercy at the crucial moment, even if you only hesitated for an instant?"
Whether smiles or sinister expressions, everything vanished from his face at that moment. He simply walked forward expressionlessly, as though pondering some serious question.
He seemed like an entirely different person from the