Old Friends

An Old Friend from Long Ago

Morning sunlight filtered through the gaps in the peach tree, shining across Luo Chen's cheeks beneath it.

Luo Chen narrowed his eyes, rose to stretch lazily, while Little Gold and Little Moon brought up two large food boxes from the imperial city and arranged the breakfast dishes one by one on the table.

Though he had lived for over a thousand years, Luo Chen had never shaken the habit of eating. To him, savoring fine food was also a pleasure.

Whenever he returned to live on Coiled Mountain, he would have Little Gold and Little Moon prepare food.

Upon learning that Luo Chen had returned, Feng Qing and Little Sister also made the rare journey to the mountaintop early in the morning.

Once everyone was seated, their casual conversation turned to the changes in the world today.

"The world's spiritual essence is sinking. Cultivators above the Forging the Dao Realm find it difficult to advance even an inch. Aside from martial artists in the first and second realms, who can break through by tempering their qi and blood, all other cultivators have been affected."

"Nowadays, in the Great Wu Dynasty, anyone among the younger generation who can break through to the Mysterious Aperture Realm before the age of thirty is already considered a genius."

Looking at her elder brother, Liu Yuanyao spoke with a sigh.

She had watched the Great Wu Dynasty rise from its founding to its peak, only to be unable to alter the world as it now plunged into decline once more.

Someone was secretly accelerating the world's descent into the Age of Dharma's End. Luo Chen did not need to think to know that it had to be the immortals and gods who wielded authority.

"It hasn't reached its lowest