The words had barely left his mouth.
The surroundings fell silent for an instant. The color drained from the woman's face, and her pupils trembled as she glanced sideways at Chen Xun. "Fellow Daoist, that sort of joke isn't funny..."
Abruptly.
Her gaze gradually turned cold, and she walked away without another word.
There weren't many cultivators with unsound minds in the Cultivation World, but she had happened to encounter one.
Naturally, she didn't believe Chen Xun's words, but neither did she want anything more to do with someone like him, so she immediately left.
Big Black Ox looked up, then quietly lay back down.
Chen Xun turned his gaze toward the window again, utterly at odds with the atmosphere around him.
He and Big Black Ox loved riding the Azure Sky Dao Orbit. It was cheap, affordable, and slow enough for them to clearly see the scenery along the way. It was also the first Dao Artifact that had stunned them with the great world's Immortal Dao civilization, leaving a deep impression.
Now, the Azure Sky Dao Orbit, which had carried the memories of countless generations of living beings in the Eternal Immortal Frontier, had vanished. Only the Shadow Immortal Realm's Starry Sky Dao Orbit remained.
The surroundings gradually grew noisy again, and panic continued to spread.
Chen Xun's gaze, by contrast, grew ever calmer. Countless magnificent mountains and rivers passed through his eyes, along with countless memories of the past.
For some reason, since his return, he hadn't felt a trace of anger or regret. It was strange...
So strange that it was as though he had foreseen everything long ago and had long since prepared to accept it all calmly. Neither startled nor angry, his state of mind was completely different from before, as though he could