After the banquet.
Mountain-Sitting Duck brought Chen Xun to its dojo and kowtowed once.
"Sixth Junior Brother, thank you for all these years." Mountain-Sitting Duck looked solemn and kowtowed again. "This duck acknowledges your Immortal Dao Talent. You are surely among the absolute pinnacle figures of the Three Thousand Great Worlds!"
"It was nothing."
Chen Xun waved with a light chuckle, standing with his hands behind his back as he looked at the enormous duck head lowered before him. "We are fellow disciples. We should do our utmost in all things; as for the rest, let heaven take its course."
Though his words were gentle and mild, his posture had not relaxed in the slightest. It seemed he greatly enjoyed the sight of Mountain-Sitting Duck submitting to him.
After all, this dead duck had never yielded to anyone over the years. Its beak was harder than iron.
Gu Shenyu? Without our Fu Shi Sect, he would be nothing...
Without this sect's Sixth Junior Brother guarding Beyond the Heavens, the founding of the Tai Yi Immortal Court would have left nothing but ruins...
Had it not said such things, it would never have ended up hanging around Chen Xun, who had retired to Mountain Field. At the very least, it could have gone and become some Immortal Court official.
A glint flashed through Mountain-Sitting Duck's eyes. Changing the subject, it asked, "Sixth Junior Brother, are those Ancient Immortal Clan people no good? I see that our sect and the Immortal Empress welcome them warmly. Ten years ago, even the Immortal Emperor personally received them at the Immortal Court."
Moreover, their master had praised that clan highly, saying that its Ancient Sage was one who blessed the common people of the Great Age.
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