The place was still the same, but the person was no longer who he had been.
Meng Chuan did not know whether, for the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, this was growth or a step backward.
"Great Emperor, do you remember what we talked about when I first came to visit you?" Meng Chuan asked.
Ruthless nodded. "I remember. Longevity and reincarnation."
"Yes, longevity and reincarnation. Back then, we were both still on the road to longevity," Meng Chuan said with a sigh.
At the time, Ruthless had probably reached her fifth life, while Meng Chuan had taken a few steps along the path of the Mortal World Battle Immortal.
They had discussed the loftiest matters in the Shrouding the Heavens World, speaking freely of longevity and sharing their respective paths toward it.
It was the only thing the two of them could talk about when they first met.
If not longevity and reincarnation, what else? Whether they had eaten today? Whether the weather was nice?
Both had gained a great deal from that conversation.
As for the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, he had merely stood to one side and listened, unable to get a word in.
His Sacred Body had reached Great Accomplishment, putting him on par with a Great Emperor, but his cultivation had yet to truly reach the Great Emperor realm.
How could he have joined a conversation between Meng Chuan and Ruthless, two people already halfway down the Immortal Path? He could not even understand all of it. Everything was hazy; it might not have sounded like a heavenly scripture to him, but it had certainly left him bewildered.
That year, in the Bronze Immortal Palace, Unknown had stood there like a lowly lackey.
In the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, Meng Chuan recalled the past. Then he