A small wooden stump had appeared behind Ye Jingyu at some unknown moment.
Only then did he notice that the old man before him was likewise seated on a similar wooden stump.
Ye Jingyu had never sat on such a stump, not even as a child before he began cultivating immortality.
He had only seen them in mortal towns.
Thus, he found it somewhat novel.
"Sit," Zou Xingyun called.
Ye Jingyu had thought the wooden stump possessed some wondrous use.
Yet after sitting down, he discovered that it was merely an utterly ordinary stump. The wood was likely nothing more than common mortal wood.
There was not the slightest thing remarkable about it.
Still, he was not especially surprised. The old man before him was, after all, an ancient cultivator who had lived for more than ten thousand years. Having a few peculiar preferences was perfectly normal.
Besides, what did it matter what one sat on? Compared to such furnishings and decorations, he was far more interested in the Sage Lord Qi Xuan Zou Xingyun had mentioned.
Zou Xingyun gave Ye Jingyu a surprised glance, but that was all.
With a smile, he set the fishing rod in his hand forward. Then, as he watched the ripples startled upon the lake spread outward in wave after wave, making the reflected white clouds and sky sway in undulating circles, he said:
"Sage Lord Qi Xuan was named Qi Yuanchun. He came from Cloud Pill State in the Celestial Pivot Spirit Domain and was born into a minor Golden Core clan. He was most skilled with words and possessed a modest talent. Yet by fortunate chance, a calamity struck, his entire family was destroyed, and he alone remained. Later, he was fortunately favored by the Ye Family of that era, took a