Jiang Ding listened as many old acquaintances expounded the Dao, feasted and drank with them, and spoke freely of all that had happened in the years gone by. He was happy for Mie Ri Supreme and the others' advancement.
There were more people in the world he knew, more points of emotional connection. This was one of life's greatest blessings.
After all their conversations and reminiscing, he returned to the sun's side, cultivating silently and deducing the Immortal Path Universe Constants.
For a time, all was quiet here.
Jiang Ding fell into a daze, not knowing what he was thinking about.
A long time passed.
"Time..."
"Can time truly wear away emotions?..."
Jiang Ding let out a soft sigh.
The moment a question was asked, it already had an answer.
Time,
could indeed wear away emotions.
While speaking with Mie Ri Supreme and the others, Jiang Ding had laughed and played as usual, discussed the past as usual, and shown no difference from before.
Yet the many emotions in his heart did not surface.
It was like recounting a movie he had already watched, a stretch of imagery. The joys, anger, sorrows, and delights of the past were gone; the past could no longer move his heart.
Without him noticing, nearly a million years had passed.
The days of old truly had become nothing more than days of old. All kinds of emotions gradually vanished with time, leaving behind only things like black-and-white picture books.
At this moment, the emotions that still retained color in Jiang Ding's heart were unexpectedly those for his mother and younger sister.
His younger sister and mother had been frozen in slumber for too long. With present technology, they could not be unfrozen; unfreezing them would certainly mean death. Yet these bloodline-deep emotions had not