Dongguan looked at the other man and fell silent for a long time.
He remembered their first meeting.
Back then, he had been a Void True God, and so had the other man.
But Dongguan had been a Void True God with the strength of an Eternal True God, a formidable outsider keeping a low profile upon entering Qu Shi City.
The other man had merely been a lackey under the city's Dark Forces-no, not quite a lackey. As a Void True God, he had counted as a leader, but he had still needed to handle chores like "collecting debts" and had been assigned as a pawn to probe Dongguan.
Had Dongguan not been disinclined to kill back then, had he instead been a hot-tempered powerhouse, the man would have died without a burial long ago.
Their second meeting had taken place when Dongguan fought his way back to Qu Shi City.
By then, Dongguan had made a name for himself in the region, though not a particularly good one, and few Eternal True Gods could match his strength.
The other man had merely been a worker at the City Lord's Mansion, cutting chaos crystals.
At this third meeting, Dongguan's strength had increased again without undergoing a fundamental transformation, but the other man now had a different identity.
Rumor has it that I'm a reincarnator, but he's the real reincarnator, Dongguan thought to himself.
"It's been a long time, Your Highness." Dongguan's expression was somewhat complicated.
Still, he felt no jealousy.
The other man was a reincarnator and had once been at least a Chaos Master. But judging by his lowly circumstances back then, he had either had a special purpose or had yet to awaken his memories.
Presumably, though, Qu Shi City held nothing that someone of his standing