Virtual Universe, Black Dragon Mountain Island.
Luo Feng, Hong, Thunder God, Zhang Gui, and Dongguan sat around a stone table.
Luo Feng and Zhang Gui had finished their arduous cultivation in Chaos City and returned to the Primal Universe. They had headed to the Primordial Secret Realm and the Doomsday Secret Realm respectively, beginning their even longer cultivation journeys at the Universe Level.
Even in the Virtual Universe, the five had distinctly different presences.
Hong wore casual clothes and stood as straight as a spear, as imposing as a pine or cypress. Bald and dressed in white robes, Thunder God simply sat there smiling, as though a halo shone behind his head, with the gentleness of a Buddha from Earth's Buddhism.
During Luo Feng's thirty years of cultivation in Chaos City, much of the Golden Horned Beast's cold killing intent and savagery had been worn away, but his presence remained cold and stern, like a blade.
Zhang Gui, meanwhile, brimmed with life, like a dragon or a blazing flame, overflowing with unparalleled enthusiasm and vitality.
Last was Dongguan.
Dongguan sat there with an elusive presence, almost as though he were invisible. But when one looked into his eyes, they were profoundly deep, like a swirling black hole that devoured the mind.
This effect came primarily from the Formless Soul-Refining Secret Manual combined with his transformed state of mind.
"Since none of you are speaking, I'll go first."
Thunder God spoke with a chuckle, breaking the silence.
"I've spent the past hundred years cultivating in the Milky Way Galaxy. The four of you were all away, so I was the only one who witnessed Earth's flourishing development. Especially with Third Brother as the Galaxy Lord, the Luo Family has developed incredibly fast."
"The Luo Family? What happened to the Luo Family?"