"Who are you?" Supreme looked up at the sky, her gaze piercing through layers of white clouds toward the person atop the mountain.
"Me? I have nearly forgotten who I am. I have slept here for far, far too long... Little girl, there is a scent about you that feels so dear, so familiar to me. Perhaps, like me, you came from the same place. Is the Celestial Ladder still as vibrant as it was before, with a hundred flowers blooming and birds singing amid fragrant blossoms? How I miss it... Back then, I loved chasing and playing among the flowers with my younger sisters. Even the gentle breeze blowing down from the sky seemed filled with laughter..." The voice above the white clouds was filled with boundless emotion.
"I do not know what the Celestial Ladder used to be like, but ever since I could remember, it had already become a barren world. The sky was shattered, the earth split apart, the lakes dried up—everything, everything was gone." Supreme shook her head. Though she could not bear to tell the other party this outcome, facts were facts.
"Is that so? Even the most beautiful Celestial Ladder was destroyed by the flames of war?" The voice above the white clouds dimmed. After being stunned for a long while, it finally let out a long sigh.
"Did Senior Peerless not tell you that the Heaven-Piercing Tower had long since fallen and was no longer what it used to be?" Supreme looked at Peerless Emperor Jueshi in puzzlement. His face remained expressionless; he neither admitted it nor denied it.
"When he came here, it was mainly to keep me company. Most of the time, I spoke while he listened..." Whenever the voice above the white clouds mentioned Peerless, it became especially gentle.