Chapter 44 — The Demon Spirit's Ancestral Court Appears in the Mortal World
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
Ahead was a waterfall, the hills and waters beautiful. Beside the waterfall stood a thatched cottage, and outside it—surprisingly—a stone statue half buried in the earth, half exposed, leaning askew. Smoke rose from the cottage's chimney; clearly someone lived there. "In these desolate mountains and wild ridges, how can there be people? Could some eminent predecessor be living here in seclusion?" No sooner had this thought crossed his mind than he saw a white fox walk out of the cottage, pick up a bamboo tube, and go back inside.