"Sen... you're Senior?"
"Zhu Tong thanks Senior for the grace of resurrection!"
"No matter! Zhu Tong, where do you plan to go?"
"This Junior wants... wants to return to the sect."
"Don't go. Your former sect ceased to exist long ago, and your Junior Sister has become a wandering soul on the verge of dispersing." Chi Yu shook his head with a smile.
Zhu Tong was a figure from ancient times and came from Star Palace, the predecessor of Heavenly Dao Palace.
Back then, Star Palace was divided into two factions. One advocated freedom throughout the Cosmos, while the other advocated following the Heavenly Dao and letting karma take its natural course.
The two factions stood opposed, their conflict growing fiercer by the day. Star Palace eventually split apart, and the faction that followed the Heavenly Dao separated from Star Palace to establish Heavenly Dao Palace.
Over the following thousand years, the two factions fought without end. In the end, the Heavenly Dao Palace faction emerged victorious and eradicated the Free and Unfettered Faction. From then on, Star Palace vanished into the river of history.
Zhu Tong belonged to Star Palace's Free and Unfettered Faction.
Ever since he had stumbled into Wandering Soul Forest by accident, he had been trapped within the Soul Illusion Realm and knew nothing about the changes in Star Palace.
He had been trapped in the Soul Illusion Realm for an unknown length of time, but he had actually died long ago. The body sitting cross-legged at the altar had already become a pile of dry bones.
Had he not encountered Chi Yu, he would have remained in the illusion forever, until his three souls dispersed and he vanished completely.
The so-called black-robed death, white-robed life, and gray-robed half-death, half-life had merely been products of his