The conversation between the two of them flowed harmoniously for the rest of the journey.
For the first time, Su Jiu learned that her usually taciturn Junior Granduncle could actually have so much to say.
They had not spent all that much time together in the Azure Realm, so Chu Luohen mostly talked about their days in Heaven Beyond Heaven.
Memories spanning ten thousand years were etched deep into Chu Luohen's mind, every last one as though carved there by a blade.
They were all memories of her... The more Su Jiu listened, the more astonished she became. She had forgotten the details of some of those events herself, yet the man before her still remembered them with perfect clarity.
That day, her Junior Granduncle talked so much that he hardly seemed like himself...
At the time, Su Jiu merely assumed that the journey through the Heaven-Connecting Tower was so long that Chu Luohen had grown bored, which was why he was talking so much.
She never stopped to consider that there was a reason for his sudden talkativeness.
All she wanted was to reach the top of the tower and fulfill her mission, and so she missed her Junior Granduncle's somewhat unusual emotions.
Later, Su Jiu would look back countless times and wonder whether the outcome might have been different if she had paid a little more attention to her Junior Granduncle then.
Unfortunately, there were no ifs.
Time passed like a white steed flashing past a crack in the wall. In the blink of an eye, the two had traveled a very, very long way.
Only then did Su Jiu discover that the top of the Heaven-Connecting Tower was not sealed shut, but opened onto a skylight.
However, the light falling through that skylight could not reach the