"Desolate Rogue was Pill Sect, and Pill Sect was Desolate Rogue."
Luo Chen chuckled as he lifted the black hood and casually sat down in a chair beside the old man.
Zhou Yunshen sighed. "A lone rogue from the Eastern Wasteland... so from the very beginning, you had already made your origins clear. I suppose Luo Hai was merely an alias as well?"
Pouring himself a drink, Luo Chen smiled as the hot tea slid down his throat. "A grain of dust entered the Northern Sea. Calling myself Luo Hai would not be inappropriate."
With just a few exchanges, Luo Chen had explained the disguise he had used back then.
Watching the other man behave as though he were entirely at home, the wrinkles on Zhou Yunshen's face twitched faintly.
"I have heard that Pill Sect possessed unrivaled abilities. Upon returning to the Eastern Wasteland, he slew countless demons. Several decades ago, he even stood evenly matched with Qing Shuang, the Demon Emperor hailed as the strongest beneath Spirit Transformation. I wonder whether those rumors are true."
"That news should have been spread by the Dao Sect Old Ancestor. How could it be false?" A faintly amused smile appeared on Luo Chen's face as he asked, "Or are you half-believing and half-doubting, old friend?"
Zhou Yunshen said calmly, "Rumors are often exaggerated. I am nearly a thousand years old, yet I am only at the Nascent Soul Sixth Layer. Fellow Daoist Luo is far younger than I am and attained the Dao after me, yet you have advanced by leaps and bounds. It truly feels like a dream. I still remember that when you left Central Province, you were only at the Nascent Soul Early Stage..."
The words "Early Stage" became drawn out in the old man's mouth, and the