"Long time no see" covered more than four hundred thousand years.
Meng Chuan had known Ruthless for only around one hundred and fifty thousand years.
At his words, Ruthless gave a slight nod in reply.
It looked cold, but Meng Chuan did not mind in the least.
This aloof, quiet Ruthless was the one he knew.
Willow God doesn't talk much either, but their silences are different, Meng Chuan thought.
Willow God is simply used to it. She was never talkative to begin with—an Immortal King who has lived through an entire era.
The Immortal Kings of the Chaotic Ancient Era and earlier had lived at least half an era.
Time washed everything pale. It was hard to stay warm and enthusiastic.
Ruthless, on the other hand, is cold by nature. It must have something to do with her past. She fought the whole world on her path to Attainment of the Dao. Of course she'd grow distant, even solitary...
Anyone who had walked through mountains of corpses and seas of blood would have trouble staying warm as a flame.
No friends. Enemies everywhere.
Wait, why am I comparing the two of them? Strange. Very strange.
Meng Chuan hurriedly pulled back his wandering thoughts.
"Did you just return?" Ruthless asked.
"Yes." Meng Chuan nodded. "The past was wonderful, but this is my home."
"As soon as my business there was done, I came straight back."
The Chaotic Ancient Era was part of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands anyway. It was all the same homeland. All of it.
Still, if things here had not been urgent, and his True Body had not been on the verge of a breakthrough, Meng Chuan would have stayed to see Shi Hao attain the Dao as an Immortal Emperor.
Unfortunately, there was not enough