"Heh. Didn't see that coming, did you..."
"Call it billions of years east of the river, billions of years west. Fortune takes its turn."
Watching Night Silence Ancient God's frightened face as he struggled to look defiant, Li Yun suddenly found it amusing.
He crouched and patted Night Silence Ancient God's cheek.
"Tell me, how did you get from the Dreadbound Sea of Realms to the Sky Desert Divine Hall?"
Night Silence Ancient God was in despair, but he did not dare leave Li Yun's question unanswered.
He could only give an honest account of what had happened.
"Back then, to capture... to find you, I asked Ancient God Hu Niu for help. He demanded payment, so I gave him the coordinates of a plane I'd discovered that was on the verge of extinction. I'd hoped to get two shares of Plane Source Energy out of it."
"But who knew someone already had their eye on those two shares of Plane Source Energy? And it was the Seventh Young Venerable of the Three Saints Palace on the Origin Plane..."
"So I crossed the Three Saints Palace. Afraid they'd hunt me down, I fled..."
"I spent a long time hiding my way across, afraid to reveal my whereabouts or even ask for news. Only then did I make it safely to the edge of the Boundary Sea."
"I was going to find a faction to join... but who would've thought I'd run into the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin? Before I knew it, I'd been brought to the Primordial Land."
"That was how I joined the Desert Camp."
"So that's what happened... Your luck was pretty good. But it ends here. You had the misfortune of running into me again, after all. It's time to settle the debt from when you