The starfields in every direction shone bright, filled with drifting grains of time.
Chen Xun's expression grew ever calmer. Ancient Immortal's way of doing things seemed domineering enough, yet he understood the human heart deeply... His words and actions were quite fitting as well.
He had slapped him across the face, then handed him a sweet date. Chen Xun found it hard to summon any anger now, completely pinned down by such a simple tactic.
Gazing into the distance, Chen Xun held something in reserve. "I need to return and recover from my injuries first. The juniors in the sect are still waiting for news from us. I'll come back to this matter another day."
"Mm." A faint glimmer flickered in Ancient Immortal's dim eyes as he said evenly, "You are an Immortal from beyond time. The Ancient Immortal Forbidden Grounds can wait for you, but I will not."
"What do you mean?" Chen Xun's gaze instantly turned incomparably grave.
From beginning to end, neither of them had intended to fight to the death. It was merely a matter of seeing who could suppress whom, not who could kill whom, because both had known from the start that neither could kill the other.
"Your Dao Accumulation and the Dao Patterns reflected upon it do not belong to the Immortal Dao of these Three Thousand Great Worlds, much less to the Five Elements of heaven and earth."
Ancient Immortal's voice was profoundly mysterious, slowly winding through heaven and earth. "Your constitution is a Five-Elements Immortal Body, yet it is not rooted in these Three Thousand Great Worlds. It does not exist beyond the heavens, so there is only one possibility..."
"You came from beyond the time of this place."
Ancient Immortal's eyes became several degrees deeper in an instant as he