"I'm back... How much time has passed for you?"
Ye Fei had been bundled up and sent home. After steadying himself beneath the tree, he looked at the people in his Courtyard, finding them more awkward-looking the longer he stared.
He had only been away for less than a month, and now every one of them had taken to wearing their long hair loose and flowing?
Honestly, there was nothing wrong with growing their hair out, but getting a hair crown wasn't difficult. They were about to enter the Nascent Soul stage, after all. They could at least tidy themselves up a little!
"Sixty years in a dream. We only woke up less than five minutes ago!"
Lin Mu raised his head and stared at Ye Fei with reddened eyes, resentment showing in his gaze.
This guy had gone off to play and clearly hadn't felt much time passing, but it had been different for them!
Because their mental states had been deemed inadequate, their memories had been sealed and they had been thrown into dreams, living sixty years from birth before finally returning...
"Sixty years in a dream? Did sixty years pass for your bodies too?"
Ye Fei found that a little implausible. Entering a dream involved the soul or mind; surely their bodies hadn't been sent in to spend sixty years there too?
If their bodies had been involved, that wouldn't have been called entering a dream.
"Our bodies cultivated for sixty years too, instinctively cycling through cultivation. It's just that our hair seemed to stop growing once it reached a certain length. Probably to conserve nutrients and keep our bodies functioning..."
Lu Heng lifted a hand and gathered his hair. While explaining to Ye Fei, he tried tying it up, but in the end, he simply took