How had he put it?
"He said you were shameless, every bit as shameless as his father."
"Hmm... There's some truth to that. But I should be more shameless than his father. His father can't possibly compare to me."
The Sea King Race chief stared at Chen Changan, dumbfounded. Was that really something worth competing over?
"How did you two meet?" Chen Changan asked curiously.
"By chance, I suppose. He showed up here too. We fought first and became friends afterward."
"Chen Ao was my kind of person, so we became friends."
"That was when I heard a few things about you."
When the chief finished, Chen Changan frowned. "About when was this?"
"Not that long ago. Around a thousand years, I think."
A thousand years ago?
Chen Changan's sense of time was rather hazy now, but he could make a rough guess.
If it had been a thousand years ago, it was probably after Chen Ao brought him to the Ultimate Land.
But Chen Ao had left him at the Ultimate Land and gone off alone. Chen Changan had thought he'd returned to Ultimate Heaven.
Instead, he went to Primordial Heaven? And even came here?
Why had Chen Ao done that? How did he know I'd come here one day?
Or did he know I had a reason I couldn't avoid coming here?
In other words, whatever the reason, I was bound to come to the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm sooner or later?
What was hidden in the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm that even Chen Ao had made a trip here in advance?
"What else did he tell you?" Chen Changan asked.
"Not much else. Mostly, he talked about you."
"He told me about how you grew up and the things you'd been through, like he was telling me