After instructing Huang Yi to scout the path for him, Zhouyang greeted his Dao companion Xiao Ying and headed to the ruins of the Yin Puppet Sect.
"Just half a year has passed, Fellow Daoist Zhou, what brings you to Xu this time?"
At the site of the Yin Puppet Sect ruins, upon sensing Zhouyang's arrival, Xu Song emerged begrudgingly from deep within his underground abode to meet him.
Faced with his complaints, an awkward expression flashed across Zhouyang's face, and he could only pretend not to notice, changing the subject: "Predecessor, are you accustomed to being here?"
Xu Song, being an experienced ghost cultivator, naturally knew Zhouyang was diverting the topic. However, the situation was beyond his control, so he replied along Zhouyang's lines: "This place is not bad; it seems many people have died here in the past. Even after countless years, the resentful Qi hasn't completely dissipated, which benefits my cultivation greatly."
