Hearing this, Dongfang Yuejian raised her head and glanced at Xu Taiping.
Xu Taiping once again reined in his aura, then looked at Blood Bone with an expression as unruffled as an ancient well and said:
"You're lying."
Blood Bone's expression changed at this. He frantically waved his hands, his face tense, and said:
"Upper Immortal, this lowly one can swear to heaven that not a single word I just said was false!"
Xu Taiping asked in return:
"Do you know what year and month it is outside?"
Blood Bone thought carefully for a moment before answering:
"When I was captured, it was the seventh day of the eleventh month in the sixteenth year of Yongchang in the Cloudrise Kingdom. I've slept twice in this cave abode, and Yuanlingzi told me each sleep lasted three years, so by that reckoning, it should now be the twenty-fifth year of Yongchang!"
Xu Taiping did not respond. Instead, he raised his head to look at Gu Yu, who stood motionless on the jade platform, and asked:
"Gu Yu, tell him what year it is."
After a little thought, Gu Yu finally answered from the jade platform:
"Upper Immortal, this year is the seventh year of Taikang. Since the sixteenth year of Yongchang he mentioned, the era name has already changed twice, and a hundred and twenty-six years have passed."
Xu Taiping nodded at this, then turned his gaze back to Blood Bone and said:
"A hundred and twenty-six years. Your wife and child must already be in their graves, yet you still claim you want to reunite with them?"
Although he did not know the Cloudrise Kingdom's era names as well as Gu Yu, he did know that the current era was Taikang, not the Yongchang Blood Bone had mentioned. That was why