When Chen Lin saw Kannie appear, he immediately smiled, put away the Black Finger, and walked over.
"Miss Kannie, long time no see. Have you been well?"
More than a hundred years had passed, but her appearance had not changed. Instead, another fruit had grown on the little tree atop her head, though it was still tiny.
Kannie looked Chen Lin over and smiled. "I've been doing quite well. After all these years, it seems your strength has improved considerably, Brother Chen. You had me worrying for nothing."
Chen Lin immediately cupped his fists. "Thank you for your concern. There was a slight mishap, and I was trapped for more than a hundred years. I only escaped recently."
After explaining, he asked, "How is your main body's recovery coming along, Miss Kannie?"
Kannie shook her head. "There's been some progress, but it's still recovering. I doubt it can recover completely without another few hundred years. After all, it was trapped in the Nightmare Realm for too long and suffered severe corruption."
Chen Lin offered a few words of reassurance.
Then he asked, "I was trapped in a sealed space all these years. After escaping, I ended up stranded on another plane and haven't been able to contact my family. Did they come here during that time?"
The reason he had been so eager to see her was to find out whether Chen Ling'er had left any messages.
"They did."
Kannie nodded. "Your daughter and Xue Honglan used to come in frequently, Brother Chen. Then one day, they said they were leaving the Tiancang Realm and asked me to let you know they were safe if I saw you. They never came in again after that. Instead, a man named Liu Shengyuan started coming in at regular intervals. In recent years,