"Junior Brother? Were you calling me, Emperor?"
Jiang Hao looked at Emperor Qin Guan in surprise.
Emperor Qin Guan smiled faintly and looked at Jiang Hao. "Junior Brother, you descended to the lower realm for a thousand years, reincarnated dozens of times, and experienced countless worlds. It is only natural that you forgot your past. Let me explain it all to you now."
"You were originally my junior brother, Jiu Hua. Our master was the 'Lord of Morality, Primordial Emperor, Treasure Lord of the Sun God, formed from the mysterious qi of the Supreme Clarity Realm, Fire Red Heaven, where the One Qi transformed into the Three Pure Ones.'"
Jiang Hao was an orthodox Daoist disciple, so he naturally knew whom that name represented. His heart shook violently. Holy shit, this can't be real, can it? I'm actually a disciple of Sage Taiqing, one of the Three Pure Ones!
What an incredibly thick thigh to cling to.
Even the thigh before him was thick enough—Emperor Qin Guan, one of the Six Imperial Sovereigns of the Heavenly Court. No wonder he had failed to summon anyone else back then, yet Emperor Qin Guan had answered. He had been his senior brother all along.
Emperor Qin Guan continued, "Countless years ago, Master established Eight Sceneries Palace in the Thirty-Three Heavens and enlightened the Plum, Orchid, Bamboo, Chrysanthemum in the garden, tasking us with tending the courtyard's flowers and plants."
At this point, he looked at Jiang Hao and smiled. "I was that plum tree, and you were that yellow chrysanthemum."
"Among the Plum, Orchid, Bamboo, Chrysanthemum, I was the Senior Disciple Brother. Qing Lan and Jade Bamboo were our two junior sisters—your two senior sisters. You were our youngest junior brother."
"We cultivated while tending the courtyard. After countless ages, all of