"Hehehe... cough, cough..." The old man laughed laboriously, like someone whose prank had succeeded, then broke into a violent coughing fit.
Ouyang frowned and could not help stepping forward to pat the old man's back. He sent a gentle stream of True Essence into him, and the old man immediately perked up a little.
"How marvelous! Young master, I never thought that after so long, I would get to see you again after your reincarnation!" Reclining crookedly in his chair, the old man looked at the youth before him and spoke softly, with some feeling.
"I never thought you could live so long, either! You were so stubborn before, only calling me Clan Leader and refusing to call me young master. Why have you changed your tune now?" Ouyang looked at the old man, who was like a rotting tree nearing its end, and spoke with much the same feeling.
The old man said with perfect confidence, "Because I'm the Clan Leader now!"
Put that way, there did not seem to be anything wrong with it. That was something Ouyang had not expected.
The old man before him was none other than that stubborn member of the Sword-Forging Clan whom he had met during the system's Side Quest, "I Am the Sword Immortal's Good Friend," when he had forcibly modified the Immortal-Slaying Sword Ou Yezi was forging in the Sword-Forging Clan. (I've forgotten which chapter this foreshadowing was in.)
He had never expected that, two eras later, he would still be able to meet the man again-and that the man had now become the Sword-Forging Clan's Clan Leader?
Ouyang looked at the old man before him, who seemed as though he might die at any moment. Sometimes, fate was just that marvelous.
"We meet again, and you're still so