【White Jade Capital Bright-Moon Frost Tiger slain — total lifespan 386,000 years, 233,000 years remaining — fully absorbed】

【Remaining Demon Lifespan: 570,000 years】

The lifespan left in the three old demons was unremarkable, and the two tomb-keeping tiger demons hardly bore mentioning; fortunately the young tiger demon, disappointing as his temper had been, had talent enough.

Shen Yi did not linger. He took Yulan and Youchang and left that stretch of dark red water quickly.

He was not certain whether that Dragon Consort was still watching him.

Even if Youchang was in all likelihood a demon Anchor-Stone matching five cities, it would be very hard for him to sense a Dao-merging great demon looking on.

"Hah."

Shen Yi felt the wind at his ears, dropped his eyes to the exquisite water lotus in his palm, and sank into thought.

It stood to reason that with this much demon lifespan he ought to be able to climb to the next stele of the Nameless Mountain.

After all, that mountain was another man's property. Yan Chongzhang had seemed to be inviting him to come and gaze on it when they parted last time, but the man was only a Dao-son and not the Sect Master proper. Who knew whether the Mountain-Moving Sect might not change its mind all at once.

The longer it was put off, the easier it was for something to change.

Yet for the moment Shen Yi found he did not want to go. The reason lay in this water lotus, and in the business of the tomb the tiger demons had mentioned.

He remembered the black-backed flood dragon guards saying it was a life-continuing object, and that the tiger demons meant to carry it into a tomb… to continue the life of the dead?

Of the five kalpas — birth, age, sickness, death and suffering — very few indeed crossed the fourth.

Shen Yi did not believe it was because those Dao-merging colossi could not see the fourth city. Which of them, before he could become the head of an immortal sect, had not been a dragon and…