At the entrance to the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower, a middle-aged man was seeing off the last customer.
He wore a brocade robe with a subtle woven pattern, and a token hung at his waist, engraved with the words "Ten Thousand Treasures Tower, Gaze City Branch, Deacon."
After seeing the customer off, he habitually glanced down the street.
Then he saw someone.
The man stood across the street, looking up at the Azure Profound Ranking outside the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower.
Black robes, a jade crown, a tall, slender figure seen from behind.
Steward Qian thought he looked familiar, but could not place him for a moment.
He withdrew his gaze and turned to head inside.
After two steps, he suddenly stopped.
Wait.
That silhouette...
He whipped his head around and stared at the figure for a while.
Then his pupils contracted.
"Si... Si Chen!?"
He instinctively rubbed his eyes and looked again.
He had not been mistaken.
The young man turned, glanced at him, and nodded slightly. "Steward Qian, long time no see."
Steward Qian froze on the spot, his mind utterly blank.
He still remembered the first time he had met Si Chen. Back then, Si Chen had looked like a boy of eleven or twelve, visiting the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower to buy information on "Yang Thunder."
Later... the entire continent had come to know that name.
Wait... hadn't he ascended?
Storytellers were still recounting the spectacle of "Nine Stars Shine Together" to this day.
But now he was standing here?
In Ancient Gaze City, at the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower, right in front of him?
Steward Qian swallowed and asked cautiously, "S-Senior Si, have you... descended to the mortal world?"
Si Chen paused, then chuckled. "...I came back for a look."
Back for a look?
Steward