"Master!"
Yang Chan cried out in delight and hurried over to Verdant Green Maiden, throwing herself into her arms and hugging her. "It's been so many years. Have you been well?"
"...I'd be better if you didn't hit me so hard."
Verdant Green Maiden clicked her tongue.
Hearing that, Yang Chan hurriedly let go of Verdant Green Maiden and carefully checked her for injuries, looking apologetic.
"Please don't be angry, Master! I was just so excited!"
"Don't worry. If you could hurt me by running into me, you'd be a marvel, Third Holy Mother."
At that, Yang Chan lowered her head in embarrassment and murmured shyly, "Master... even you are teasing me?"
"Is that name no good?"
Verdant Green Maiden asked in reply, looking at Yang Chan.
"The people around Mount Hua gave it to me. It's a nice name, but..."
Yang Chan spoke with some helplessness.
She sighed softly, shook her head, and said, "How could I possibly deserve a title like that? Nowadays, I'm just a cultivator who's lived a little longer and knows a few Minor Spells. An Immortal... I wouldn't dare claim to be one! Much less a Mountain God of the Five Sacred Mountains."
"So modest!"
Verdant Green Maiden chuckled and clicked her tongue.
"You're far too modest!"
Just someone who'd lived a little longer? Little more than that? She had no idea how many people would give anything for such a long life.
It really was different when you had a good mother. Even immortality came easily.
"Alas..."
What a pity. What a shame.
Long ago, she hadn't known why she was immortal, or what method could grant immortality. Now that she knew, she still felt that times had changed beyond recognition. Truly, seas had become mulberry fields; nothing was as it once had