Luo Jun looked in surprise at the old man before him. Though his face was covered in wrinkles and his beard and hair were all white, that short, plump build and the arrangement of his facial features were unmistakably identical to Wan Guiyuan's...
Or rather, this was simply what Wan Guiyuan would look like when he was old!
"Friend, you must have mistaken me for someone else?" The old man clearly didn't know whom he meant. "I am merely a remnant cast aside by the times." "Not the same person?" Luo Jun studied him closely. Though his face shape and features were nearly identical, his bearing was completely different from Wan Guiyuan's. Besides, his Master had said that he and Wan Guiyuan had known each other before the Gate opened, when they had both still been boys—practically growing up together. This old man could not possibly be the President Wan he knew.
Could he be an ancestor? Wan Guiyuan's forefather from six thousand years ago? That was probably the only reasonable explanation.
"You said you are a remnant abandoned by the times, Senior? What does that mean?" Luo Jun pressed.
"Wasn't I the one who asked the first question?" The old man chuckled. "You barged into my place of secluded cultivation, and before even introducing yourself, you began questioning me. Isn't that rather inappropriate?"
"I was presumptuous." Luo Jun nodded. "I came from another time and space, and I am searching for a way to return to my original one." "Another time and space?" The old man was stunned. "Did you encounter a Custodian? Or a true god?"
"A Custodian," Luo Jun answered honestly. "I am originally a descendant of God Forsaken Land. I was summoned to this era by a Custodian from another world. I returned to God Forsaken