"Are we growing farther apart?"
Jiang Ding froze.
"Yes."
"I didn't notice it during Foundation Establishment, but things began to change in the Golden Core Realm. Now that we've reached the Nascent Soul Realm, the feeling has become even stronger."
An Siyan spoke as she searched her memory.
"It doesn't feel good."
"Really?"
Jiang Ding tried to recall the past, comparing one event after another with how things had been during Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining.
In the end, he found that she was right.
"It's because we spend less time together."
Jiang Ding spread his hands helplessly. "A Nascent Soul True Lord lives for twelve hundred years, after all. A single stretch of cultivation can easily last years. We can't spend time together as often as we did during Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining."
"When we don't see each other, a sense of distance naturally grows."
"I think this is the inevitable fate of high-level cultivators. The further we advance, the more pronounced it becomes. We can't reverse a law of nature."
"That must be it."
Jin Lingfeng sighed.
These were things that inevitably happened to high-level cultivators. They had only just entered the Nascent Soul Realm and were not used to them yet.
Perhaps, given time, they would grow accustomed to it.
The group soon moved on and began discussing recent events.
"Bone Forest True Person, Teacher Ou Yanghui, and Teacher Liu have all formed Nascent Souls. Everything went smoothly, and each of them formed at least a high-grade Nascent Soul."
An Siyan said, "Bone Forest True Person, in particular, achieved what she'd hoped for. She successfully formed a Dao-rule Nascent Soul and condensed the phantom of a world in her sea of consciousness, just like the Taiyin Sword Heir."
"Teacher Bone Forest really is formidable."
Jiang Ding