Ten years later.
Taiyi Great World, Mystic Micro Heaven Domain, mortal realm of the human race.
Tea Mountain.
This place was peaceful and free of conflict, camellia flowers drifting across the mountains. Yet this tranquility was not silence by one's ears, but the absence of strife within one's heart, as if it carried the most beautiful prayers hidden deep within cultivators' hearts.
The departed were always like this.
Between heaven and earth, the gentle breeze was like poetry, brushing softly past with a touch of ethereality and tenderness.
On the mountaintop grassland, camellia flowers drifting through the mountains gently fell, layer upon layer, slowly covering that immaculate gravestone.
Even the linen clothes that swayed gently in the wind had now become a garment of flowers. Draped over the gravestone, it seemed to silently guard it until eternity.
Today.
Chen Xun brought Big Black Ox to Demon Moon's grave.
Tap...
Their footsteps drew closer as they silently turned towards the gravestone steeped in the hardships of time.
Big Black Ox took out the incense burner it had refined and silently went aside to perform rites for Demon Moon, offering her merit. This had always been its habit, hoping that they could be reincarnated.
As for whether such a thing truly existed, back when it was in the Small Realm, it would ask, explore, and seek to prove it through the Immortal Dao.
But having come this far, Big Black Ox had long stopped investigating or asking about such things. It would only do what its true heart believed was right, without needing to care about the eyes of outsiders.
It remembered the first time they had come here.
It had flown into a rage at Chen Xun. The latter had been ridden on its head and beaten up without daring to