Xu Chunniang felt the same. These past years, she had been busy cultivating and rarely had the chance to leisurely savor tea as she did now.
It was not merely because she lacked the time. More importantly, she had not met anyone with whom she could share tea.
The two drank quietly for a while. At last, Xu Chunniang was the first to break the silence.
"Since we parted at the Immortal Palace Ruins, have you been well all these years?"
"Not bad, I suppose. I'm a cultivator who ascended to the upper realm now. Compared to the past, my strength is worlds apart."
Bai Lu said seriously, "What about you? Cultivating alone all these years, you must have endured quite a lot of hardship, right?"
She still had her Lineage to rely on, but when Xu Chunniang had been in the Qianluo Realm, she had been nothing more than a Rogue Cultivator.
For a mere Rogue Cultivator to reach this point through her own strength was no easy feat.
"As for cultivation, I wouldn't call it hardship."
The two met each other's eyes. Bai Lu did not ask why Xu Chunniang had appeared in the demon realm, and Xu Chunniang tacitly did not ask Bai Lu why she had switched to demonic cultivation.
They merely drank tea quietly, reminiscing about the past.
Xu Chunniang and Bai Lu had not interacted much in the Qianluo Realm, yet meeting again in the First Prison brought them the joy of encountering an old friend in a foreign land.
"Are those people from back then still around?"
"Some encountered great opportunities, advancing by leaps and bounds in cultivation before ascending to the Spirit Realm and the demon realm. Some broke through to the Soul Transformation stage and became powerful figures in the Qianluo