A Perfect Immortal Emperor Returns Template! There was something about him that did not belong to this world. Faintly, he even carried a trace of the weathered vicissitudes left by time.
That feeling made Gu Yuan unable to resist giving him a few more looks.
A random task had descended at random.
So this person was the one randomly chosen.
Gu Yuan had read quite a few novels before. One of the most classic scenes was when someone suddenly vanished.
Then they lived for many years in some other world. Once they found their original world again, they forcibly traversed back, only for their cultivation to plummet.
Yet when they looked, hardly any time had even passed.
When Gu Yuan first read such novels, he found them quite interesting. But later, it was always cultivation dropping drastically and starting over from scratch.
That made Gu Yuan lose much of his interest in such things.
This middle-aged man fit the setup of those novels rather well.
The only question was whether such an experience was real, or merely memories fabricated by that Supreme One.
"Finally, I'm back. I never expected time to have actually stopped?"
The middle-aged man paused slightly in the street, a puzzled look appearing on his face.
Then a sharp gleam flashed through his eyes.
Still, that was fine. In this era, combined with his experiences from other worlds, he would surely accomplish something great.
With that thought, the middle-aged man looked toward the Shrine.
At first, he had held the Shrine in considerable reverence. But with the experiences of other worlds and the memories of having once been powerful—
He no longer held the so-called Supreme Dao Venerable of Bestowed Profound Dharma in the same respect as before.
Perhaps once he recovered his strength, he could occupy