Heavenly Secrets Ancestor quietly sat down.
He pondered for a moment before speaking. "Fu Tian, you vanished for ten thousand years. Even the Fu Shi Religion could not calculate a trace of you. Your grandmaster often muttered about you in my ear as well, yet I never expected you to have come to the Boundless Great World."
"Mm." Chen Xun nodded, gazing out the window as he calmly said, "I'll be going back soon."
Heavenly Secrets Ancestor's brows furrowed slightly. In truth, he could barely recognize the Fu Tian from that year's Heaven Worship Ceremony. Now that they met again, he only felt that Fu Tian had become an entirely different person. Nor could he calculate what this child had experienced over the years.
But his cultivation... was still that bizarre Late Stage Refining Void.
Beyond that, he could no longer see anything at all.
Heavenly Secrets Ancestor smiled and changed the subject. "Is the scenery here pleasant?"
"Very."
Chen Xun seemed to have little to say. His face bore an endless calm, as though he had lost the emotions of a living being and become like a puppet.
"How have you been these past years?" Heavenly Secrets Ancestor made small talk with Chen Xun.
"Mm..."
That simple greeting made Chen Xun contemplate for a long while. In the end, it turned into a faint smile. "Quite well. I wandered about and took in the sights. It was fairly pleasant."
Then he casually added, "I just miss home."
"Haha."
Those words, I miss home, made Heavenly Secrets Ancestor stroke his beard and laugh heartily. "At little friend Cheng Si's Immortal Ascension Ceremony that year, fellow Daoists from all directions came to offer their congratulations, yet you did not return. It became one of your master's greatest regrets."
As he spoke,