After becoming his disciple, Peanut asked, "You just said the reason you wanted me as your disciple was that you'd traveled through time and space several times and formed some bonds with me, so you didn't want me to die later, right?"
"In other words, we've interacted in other timelines, correct?"
"I want to know what our relationship was in those other times and places."
"You should be addressing me differently now," Lu Ran said.
"Master..." Looking at Lu Ran's young face, Peanut still found it a little strange. But she knew perfectly well that, as an old monster who had traveled through time and space repeatedly, Lu Ran's actual age had to be far greater than hers.
"Our relationship?" Lu Ran pondered.
Peanut had asked a crucial question.
Beside them, Six Path Flower spoke. "In another timeline, he obtained the inheritance left in your previous incarnation's ruins. You could call him your disciple."
"D-disciple???"
Peanut looked utterly bewildered.
Her mind was muddled, unable to process the twist.
"Well, that's how it is." Lu Ran took out the Ruins Tree Branch as proof and said, "It's fine. We can treat those relationships separately."
"Although I'm your previous incarnation's disciple, that doesn't stop me from taking you as my disciple now."
"Who does things like that!!!"
Peanut was stunned. She had thought she and Lu Ran might have shared some grand, eventful history in another time and place, but what on earth was this mess?
What a fine display of filial devotion.
"What the heck?"
Just as Peanut wondered whether to back out, ripples like those on water suddenly appeared in the sky, and a powerful plant deity emerged.
Its aura was so powerful that even Six Path Flower felt pressured.
This plant deity had a distinctive form. At its core