In the cave dwelling, the woman's voice did not arise again, leaving only a Seven Stars Venerable with an iron-blue complexion, his eyes flickering with uncertain light.

After a long while, he let out a heaven-shaking, earth-rattling roar, "My golden ginseng! Ahhhhhhh! Damn it! Thief! You bunch of thieves! Phecda... this supreme being is not done with you! Not done! Definitely not done!"

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Over thirty thousand miles away from the Seven Star Cave, Chu Mo and the big rooster peeked over tentatively towards the Seven Star Cave. They had been out for half a day without hearing any disturbances and finally, they both sighed in relief.

The big rooster casually tossed a wooden box to Chu Mo, saying, "Kid, for saving my life, I'm giving you this Quasi-Saint medicinal herb!"

"Ah?" Chu Mo foolishly caught the wooden box. "Quasi-Saint medicine? What do you mean?"

"It is the Quasi-Saint medicine that surpassed the supreme elixirs! This is a genuine divine medicine, do you understand?" The big rooster looked at Chu Mo with a patronizing air.

"You'd give away something this good to me?" Chu Mo thought the big rooster was spouting nonsense and teased him while laughing. What a joke, were Quasi-Saint medicines as common as cabbages, available everywhere?

Just then, from thirty thousand miles away, a heaven-shaking roar emanated from that supreme cave dwelling.

Chu Mo and the big rooster heard it loud and clear, then the big rooster looked at Chu Mo, "How about that? Didn't Phecda lie to you, right?"

Yet, Chu Mo was completely stunned, staring at the ancient wooden box in his hand, he never would have imagined that it truly contained a Quasi-Saint medicinal herb, and most importantly... the name of this Quasi-Saint medicinal herb was golden ginseng!

This was beyond coincidence; it was practically a miracle!

As a cultivator, Chu Mo had always believed in qi movement, but he could never have imagined what kind of fortuitous qi movement could lead to such a coincidence.

He looked at the big rooster and asked somewhat dazedly, "What's inside... is golden ginseng?"

"Yes, the name might sound commonplace, but its effects are top-notch! It's a truly superior elixir, one that has gained sentience... If you release it from its seal, even a supreme cultivator might not be able to control it. If I didn't know you had that cauldron to better harness the herb's effects, Phecda would have never given it to you," the big rooster said with a hint of conceit.

Chu Mo looked towards the distant Seven Star Cave and couldn't help but laugh, muttering, "What a coincidence!"

The big rooster looked at Chu Mo, somewhat puzzled, then asked, "How exactly did you deceive that terrifying fellow?"

"The Nine Lives Technique," Chu Mo sighed, then looked at the big rooster. "I have a true immortal avatar, and then I used that avatar, combined with the Nine Lives Technique, to create a fake true immortal avatar..."

As soon as he heard it, the big rooster understood and looked at Chu Mo, his eyes complex, "So, you mean to say, to save Phecda, you lost one life?"

Chu Mo laughed, "Why have you become so sentimental? A Quasi-Saint herb... is worth more than one fake life, right?"

The big rooster said gravely, "Fake life or real life... they are lives, there's nothing in this world more valuable than a life."

"We are friends, such talk makes me uncomfortable," Chu Mo looked at the big rooster. "Do we need to keep account of this between us? If I were in danger, would you just stand by and watch?"

Without hesitation, the big rooster replied, "How could I possibly just stand by and watch? Phecda would run far, far away!"

"Get out of here!" Chu Mo laughed and scolded.

The big rooster also couldn't help but laugh, then said, "The Nine Lives Technique, huh? The Drifting Empress's unique supreme art. I didn't expect you to have mastered such a Supreme Art. But there's something even more coincidental, do you know what relationship that individual in the Seven Star Cave has with the Drifting Empress?"

"Do they have a relationship?" Chu Mo looked astonished, staring at the rooster, "Who exactly is that person? And... how were you captured?"

"That's a bit of a long story," the rooster said with a gloomy face, "Goddamn it, I was tricked by that damned monkey!"

The monkey that Chu Mo had split with one strike was the direct disciple of the Seven Star Supreme in the Immortal Realm, and its strength had reached the peak of the ascension phase. Had it not been for the Seven Star Supreme, it probably would have ascended to the Heavenly Realm long ago.

That monkey was almost flawless in impersonating a human, and it possessed a Supreme artifact from the Seven Star Supreme—the Supreme Fan.

Therefore, within this vast territory of billions of miles, the monkey was almost without any rival.

After ascending to the Immortal Realm, the rooster wanted to find a place to quietly cultivate and then wait for Chu Mo. As a non-human spirit, the place where the rooster ascended directly landed within this vast territory of billions of miles.

This has been the rule since ancient times: human cultivators have their own ascension area, and non-human spirits... have their own distinct ascension regions.

The rooster understood this rule naturally and didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

The rooster had visited the habitats of many tribes here, such as the Dragonfly Clan, the Blackwater Mosquito Clan, and he had also met that big-bodied, small-hearted giant elephant. Later, its appearance was betrayed by the people from the Blackwater Mosquito Clan.

The monkey appeared as a human cultivator and showed up in front of the rooster.

Because of Chu Mo, the rooster felt a kinship toward human cultivators. However, when they first met, they had a little spar.

"That dumb monkey thought it could defeat me with the Supreme Fan. It ended up getting a harsh lesson from me and immediately knelt down to me," said the rooster with pride as he recalled that scene.

"And then?" Chu Mo glanced at the rooster.

The rooster immediately drooped its head, frustratedly saying, "Then the kid sincerely invited me to visit his cave dwelling, and he said that cave... was left behind by an ancient master, filled with all sorts of treasures. Seeing that Supreme Fan in his hand, I somewhat believed his words."

"Are you stupid?" Chu Mo rolled his eyes.

The rooster glared, "At that time, that guy was no match for me, who knew he would hatch a plot against me? Who would have thought that inside that cave there would be a true immortal old grouch? If it were a regular cultivator from the Immortal Realm, could they have detained me?"

Chu Mo thought about it and indeed that was the case; with the rooster's current battle strength, cultivators from the Immortal Realm really couldn't hold him back.

"Then, after I arrived at the cave dwelling, I encountered that bastard, the Seven Star Supreme. It was him... who wiped out the entire Tianji Clan and then extracted the bloodline from my body. If it hadn't been for my great fortune and the seal from my ancient ancestor which transported me away to the Mortal Realm at the crucial moment, there might be tall ancient trees growing on my grave by now," said the rooster with a somber voice.

"What?" Chu Mo's face immediately darkened as he looked in the direction of the Seven Star Cave, his eyes cold.

The rooster continued, "That's how it is. It's just my bad luck, never thought I would run into that bastard again, I thought he had died back then."

"Who exactly is this person?" Chu Mo asked coldly.

"His real name is Qin Sen, a supreme being from countless years ago. Later, in that great battle, his second primordial spirit was killed, and he almost died; his realm dropped sharply, and he came to the Immortal Realm with the shattered world, hiding here like a worm since. He is from the Qin family of the Heavenly Realm, an ancestor of Qin Shi. He also has a bit of a relationship with the Drifting Empress. Qin Sen's cousin used to be the husband of the Drifting Empress. That's the only marriage she ever had in her life," the rooster said with droopy eyelids, looking at Chu Mo, "Isn't this an even stranger coincidence?"

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