"Master, it had been a long time!"
Li Xiaojie brought Eunuch Hong to the Azure Cloud Sect. After seeing Zhang Yang, he performed a formal bow.
Zhang Yang froze for a moment, then asked in astonishment, "You were not dead yet?"
He had met Li Xiaojie over twenty years ago. At that time, Li Xiaojie had already been several decades old.
An ordinary man, after more than twenty years—and as an emperor at that—even if he had not died, should have been practically senile.
Yet Zhang Yang saw no signs of senility on Li Xiaojie, which was why he was so surprised.
Li Xiaojie smiled bitterly. "Master, we had not seen each other in so long. Could you not wish me something better?"
Zhang Yang chuckled. "You brat do not even have a Dao Seed, so a Golden Core is beyond hope. I had thought you died long ago, yet you were still alive... There is even Divine Dao light on you. Did you stop cultivating immortality and switch to the Divine Dao?"
"I did try it," Li Xiaojie said without hiding anything. "Over the years, I achieved a little in the Empire. Though I cannot say the people all adored me, most of them were still satisfied with me. Thus, I was able to gain some Vow Power.
"I also attempted Divine Dao Foundation Establishment, but I seemed different from other Divine Dao cultivators.
"So now, I did not even know what I counted as.
"But at least I cultivated before, so my lifespan was much longer than an ordinary person's."
"Mm!" Zhang Yang examined Li Xiaojie's condition.
This disciple of his had merely learned a few arts of power and strategy from him. Strictly speaking, they could not even be considered master and disciple.
They had the name,