Chen Xun stopped on the terraced fields and gazed into the distance, his eyes deepening slightly. "Old Ox, these alleys..."
"Moo~" Big Black Ox slowly nodded, certainty filling its eyes. They really did resemble Double Tree Alley, as though they had been replicated exactly.
Chen Xun rested one hand on Big Black Ox's head and smiled. "Old Ox, don't be nervous. This is the aura of the Heaven and Earth anomalous spirit, the Roaring Sky Worm. It was a spirit that had become immortal."
"Moo?!" Big Black Ox's entire body abruptly tensed at Chen Xun's words, its scalp tingling slightly. So that was it!
It had long sensed an incomprehensibly powerful aura here, one it could neither explain nor probe. It had not expected it to be the lingering Dao essence of an immortal. No wonder...
"Hehe, I once fought alongside it when I went to the Void Azure Ancient Holy Region." Chen Xun turned his head, a trace of reminiscence flashing through his eyes. "We weren't enemies. I only came here to take a look."
"Moo~~" Big Black Ox let out a long snort and nudged Chen Xun, smiling with honest simplicity.
It did not care. Wherever Chen Xun went, it would go. There was no need to explain too much to it. Looking around everywhere was good enough; it had never held too many purposes in its heart.
"Hehe." Chen Xun laughed aloud and fiercely kneaded the hand resting on Big Black Ox's head. He added, "But it seems I was wrong. It appears it did not leave behind any way out."
"Moo?" Big Black Ox stared wide-eyed at Chen Xun. Could that Roaring Sky Worm have fallen as an immortal?!
Killing an immortal was harder than ascending to the heavens, let alone one that had fought alongside