Everyone stared at Wushi. Bewildered was the only word for them.
"What happened?" Ye Fan asked, puzzled. "You're acting a little strange."
"I suddenly remembered something," Wushi said gravely.
"When I first met the Dao Ancestor, not long after my Awakening from the Divine Source, I went to see him. The first thing he said to me was..."
"He said, 'This is the difference between Great Luo and an Immortal Emperor.'"
"You remembered something Meng Chuan said to you long ago. Why react like this?" Ji Lianxing asked.
"What does it..."
Halfway through her question, Ji Lianxing saw the expressions on Ye Fan and the others' faces change. She gradually sensed that something was wrong too.
That was exactly what they were talking about now!
"How could Meng Chuan have said that to you back then?"
"This is the difference between Great Luo and an Immortal Emperor," Meng Chuan said calmly.
"I answered Wushi's question in the past."
In the Desolate Ancient Era, when Meng Chuan first met Ji Lianxing...
Meng Chuan looked at the shock in the eyes of the young woman across from him.
"Who are you? How could you have become a Saint at your age?" the young Ji Lianxing asked.
She was still only a Great Power. Not just her—everyone of her generation was still hovering between Half-Step Great Power and Great Power.
How had a Saint roughly her age suddenly appeared?
She could have understood if he were decades older. But they were the same age, and he might even be younger than her!
Even if he had started cultivating in the womb, he could not have advanced this fast.
Speed was hardly the point. As the Ji Family's Holy Maiden of this generation, she carried the family's hopes, yet this stranger before her was