Lu Yin suddenly asked, "What's your relationship with the Boundless?"
The roly-poly wobbled twice. "None."
Lu Yin frowned. He didn't know much about the Boundless, but he knew that the Wu Clan within it was made up entirely of Special Creatures.
Asking this creature was also a way of testing it.
"How many of your kind are there?"
"I've been away too long to know, but probably not many. It's very difficult for our kind to be born. Otherwise, you'd have seen them when you dragged the Main River of Time out."
"None of you have names?"
"At least, I don't. There's no need for one, either. Human, didn't you give me a name? Hehe Old Guy. It sounds nice. I don't mind sharing it."
Lu Yin looked up. "Let me talk to it."
Soon, a voice came from inside the Eight Colors' divine power cage. "Hehe, looks like something happened to me."
Lu Yin sighed. "Old Guy, how are you feeling?"
"I've lost some memories."
"You were parasitized."
"Did Granting give us the power to ferry the River of Time?"
"You know about it?"
"Every River of Time Ferryman is born in a tributary of the River of Time and knows from birth that they're a ferryman. That's strange, because no living being exists without an origin, and yet we have none." Hehe Old Guy recalled, "And what I call being born doesn't mean that we emerged from the earliest stirrings of life. We suddenly appeared in a tributary of the River of Time, with no memories of the past, only the ability to ferry the River of Time."
"It's strange. Who gave us this ability, and why? I've thought about it."
"Especially when your cultivation reaches the point of nearing the Eternal Life Realm. That obstruction makes you