The stars stretched bright in every direction, filled with Ages Sand drifting on the wind.
Chen Xun's expression grew ever calmer. Immortal Ancient's manner seemed overbearing, yet he understood the human heart deeply... His words and actions were quite fitting as well.
First he slapped him across the face, then gave him a Sweet Date. Chen Xun could not quite summon any anger now, having been completely pinned down by that simple routine.
Chen Xun gazed into the distance and held one hand in reserve. "I need to return and recover from my injuries first. The juniors of the sect are still waiting for news from us. I'll come back for this matter another day."
"Mm." A trace of light flickered in Immortal Ancient's dim eyes as he said evenly, "You are an immortal from beyond the ages. This Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground can wait for you, but I will not."
"What do you mean?" Chen Xun's gaze became incomparably grave in an instant.
Yet from beginning to end, neither of them had intended to fight to the death. It was merely a matter of who could suppress whom, not who could kill whom, because from the very start, they both knew neither could kill the other.
"Your Dao essence and the Dao patterns reflected upon it do not belong to the immortal Dao of these Three Thousand Great Worlds, much less to the Heaven and Earth Five Elements."
Immortal Ancient's voice was profoundly mysterious, slowly winding between Heaven and Earth. "Your constitution is a Five Elements Immortal Body, yet it is not rooted in these Three Thousand Great Worlds. It does not exist beyond the heavens, so there is only one possibility..."
"You came from beyond the ages of this world."
Immortal Ancient's eyes became a few degrees deeper