Liang Ji and Peng Yue had spent seventy or eighty years traveling and exploring the Outer Domain Star Sea, nearly twenty of them in the Spirit Realm.
After nearly a century away from home, Liang Ji and Peng Yue returned to the Star Alliance. Although almost a hundred years had passed, they felt little sense that everything had changed beyond recognition.
Of course, over the past century, many things had changed in the Star Alliance, in their Lineages, and among the forces under their command, such as the Dragon Snake Chamber of Commerce.
For instance, more and more Third Rank Immortals had embarked on the Earth Immortal Orthodox path. Both Lineages had gained many new members, including several younger descendants who had embarked on the Star Lord path.
But for Liang Ji and Peng Yue, advancing to Seventh-Tier Star Lords had brought profound changes to their sense of time, their view of the world, and their feelings about family.
Unless another great war like the Pioneer War broke out in the Star Alliance, a major upheaval shook an entire starfield, or someone among their families or friends advanced to become a Seventh-Tier Star Lord, such changes no longer seemed significant enough to draw much of their attention.
Their horizons and outlooks had changed!
It was like how humans paid no mind to how many generations of insects had come and gone at their feet, or how many autumns the trees and grass had seen.
So after returning to the Star Alliance, Liang Ji and Peng Yue only briefly checked on their parents, Peng Yue's grandmother, and close teammates like Chu Yue and Wu Shan.
They then looked into the Dragon Snake Chamber of Commerce's business, checked whether it had run into any problems that needed their help, and handed over