Time flew by.
"After he was betrayed, all his old friends were swallowed by the Darkness Tide and transformed."
The Silent One calmly told the story. "Relying on memories of the past, he held on for a very, very long time. Perhaps a million years? Perhaps ten million? Or even longer—so long that he had forgotten time itself."
"Once he forgot time, those old memories began to drift away, too."
"After all, across billions of years, memories of a few decades, a few centuries, or even tens of thousands of years were far too brief to sustain the loneliness of eternity."
Yunxi watched the images reflected before her. They kept reaching further into the past, all the way back to the very beginning of this life.
That was when Li Fan had met his two disciples, Nan Feng and Ziling, in the Profound Heaven Realm.
That was when Long Zixuan and Lu Rang had entered Small Mountain Village without looking back.
That was when Dugu Yuqing and Qing Chen had agonized outside the village, pondering the Great Dao of mathematics and finding no answer...
That was when Jiang Li had marveled at the Chess Game in Small Mountain Village, and Wu Dade had first seen the black dog, his heart uneasy...
And that was when she had first entered Small Mountain Village. On the roadside, she had come across Second Uncle basking in the sun. He had told her that Xiao Li and the others had gone to make barbecue.
Then she had brought the White Tiger Immortal King of that time to the spot where Li Fan and the others were barbecuing. Back then, she had been full of confidence, but the moment she saw Li Fan, she had turned frightened, mistaking him for the Devil King...
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