"Lost in the Milky Way for half a year?"
Huai Zhen's pupils constricted, his face filled with disbelief.
Then he sighed.
"Back then, when your group entered the Milky Way Galaxy to explore, we originally held very high expectations!"
"But in the second year after you entered the Milky Way Galaxy, the Abyss Master and the Grand Elder returned on their own..."
"Only after we asked did we learn that you had encountered an extremely dangerous situation inside the Milky Way Galaxy..."
"..."
As Huai Zhen recounted it, Jiang Fan gained a rough timeline of what had happened after the Time Torrent erupted in the Milky Way Galaxy.
"You're saying that when the Abyss Master and the Grand Elder returned, both of them were gravely injured?"
"Did they say what injured them?"
Huai Zhen shook his head.
"I don't know that!"
"We wanted to ask at the time, but the two of them kept it deeply secret, and afterward, they never brought up this matter again!"
Jiang Fan nodded slightly.
Back when he had been swept into the Time Torrent, the Grand Elder and the Abyss Master had both still been completely unharmed.
But when the two of them returned, they had been gravely injured. Most likely, they had been wounded during the Time Torrent's rampage, or in some other region on the way back.
"And then?"
Huai Zhen sighed.
"Then... the Abyss Master and the Grand Elder announced they were entering seclusion!"
"They handed over the affairs of their respective organizations to others to manage!"
"Ten years later..."
"The Abyss Master fell..."
Heard this, Jiang Fan's whole body shook.
"What did you say? The Abyss Master fell? How could that be?"
"He was a level-nineteen powerhouse, and wasn't their Dark Abyss the best at using heretical methods to prolong