Jade Origin nearly twitched at those words. If this hadn't been the wrong place, his face would probably have spasmed.
He knew this bit. He knew it all too well.
Back when he had first met Di Cheng, he had opened with, "You're about to die."
That episode, to him, had merely been a tiny fragment among the countless tales of an exalted master wandering the mortal world.
Back then, this exalted master of his had truly stood high above all—an Immortal whose undying radiance illuminated the Great Thousand Worlds and immeasurable reaches of time and space.
At that time, the path of Eternity had yet to emerge. Immortals were already the ceiling.
In truth, after Ancient Shang's collapse, he had been rather bewildered by how quite a few Immortals had suddenly appeared in such a short span of time.
Immortals certainly varied in strength. Among them, Jade Origin was not among the strongest tier, but he was by no means at the bottom either.
He still had some standing.
Compared with the first echelon of Immortals, there was naturally a certain gap—but that gap was absolutely not large.
Yet for no apparent reason, some Immortals had attained Eternity. He could not make heads or tails of it, unable to understand just how those few had proven Eternity.
It felt no different from a group of "poor people" diligently researching how to make money, only for several of them to suddenly become trillionaires.
There was nothing wrong with becoming a trillionaire, but without the process of getting rich, something was very wrong.
As for Jade Origin and Di Cheng, their story was simple enough.
Ancient Shang had still been very weak then, and Di Cheng had not even attained eternal life.
Jade Origin had been wandering the mortal realm when