Theresa took out Immortal's Joyful Tea again and handed it out to everyone. This time, even Old Jing got a cup. To March 7th and the others' surprise, Jing Yuan happily accepted the Immortal's Joyful Tea Theresa offered him—milk tea, in other words—and began drinking it. Incidentally, Jing Yuan was now physically present in the Divination Department.
Perhaps because Theresa was an Immortality Envoy, he regarded everyone as his own people, so there was naturally no need for caution.
Jing Yuan took a large gulp of milk tea. As the cold, sweet drink entered his mouth, he chewed the brown sugar pearls and savored the rich sweetness filling his mouth, raising his brows in surprise. He felt that this milk tea tasted even better than what Eternal Night Tavern sold over at Starcruiser Sea.
March 7th and the others proudly declared that this was handmade milk tea prepared by Theresa herself, made with real tea leaves and real milk. Naturally, it tasted better than those mixed drinks.
Jing Yuan nodded as he savored the wonderful flavor in his mouth. Fu Xuan also drank her milk tea with her eyes happily narrowed, enjoying the marvelous taste of sugar.
Holding his milk tea, Jing Yuan began telling the Stellaron Hunters the story of the Xianzhou people's origins. Everyone silently began to listen.
"Long ago, before the Xianzhou rose into the heavens, our ancestors lived upon the land of a certain planet. Like all of you, the Xianzhou people of that time were merely short-lived species whose lives did not exceed a hundred years."
"The emperor who ruled that nation, the First Emperor, could not bear a life as brief as dew upon the grass, nor could he bear for the empire he had built to belong to others after a hundred years.