Seeing everyone's puzzled expressions, the Immortal Lord smiled faintly and said,
"Yuhua and I are destined to be master and disciple."
At these words, Luo Yunzi, Xuanming, Dragon Maiden Qiushuang, and the others were even more astonished.
This was the Immortal Lord, an unsurpassed powerhouse who could be called second only to the Dao Ancestor, yet he had taken an interest in a fledgling True Immortal who had only just ascended to the Immortal Realm.
Immortal Lord Li laughed heartily and said with easy warmth,
"There is no need to be surprised. Space and time form a river, and the years flow on. Some things, some people, will return to their starting point no matter how time changes."
"The bond of master and disciple between Yuhua and me is one such thing. I imagine Fellow Daoist Jiang can understand that."
Jiang Yang smiled and nodded.
He understood what the Immortal Lord meant.
No matter how the timeline changed, certain things remained fixed for certain beings.
Jiang Yang's understanding was correct.
In the Immortal Lord's original timeline, Jiang Yang had died to save the land and all its living beings.
The entire Divine Clan had suffered grievous injuries and gone into hiding in the world.
The Dragon Clan, which should have risen to prominence, had never done so, because the Divine Dragon Clan had never come into being at all.
The powerful Devil Clan, with its astonishingly devious schemes, had once ruled the world.
The Devil Clan had imposed crushing taxes and levies, ruling the land through fear, its ravenous greed countless times uglier than that of the Dragon Clan Realm.
Naturally, resistance had sprung up everywhere.
During that darkest period, great numbers of heroes had emerged from every race to resist the Devil Clan's tyranny!
Yuhua, born among the Human