Yue Xuan still carried a trace of childhood nervousness whenever he saw Chen Xun now, yet his eyes were filled with unfamiliarity.
"How have you all been these past years?"
Chen Xun was the first to open the conversation. Naturally, he could sense everything. The only one with whom he still felt no distance was his master.
"Sixth Junior Brother!" Hearing Chen Xun's words, Yue Xuan grew somewhat excited and began telling him about the changes of recent years.
Chen Xun listened intently. He had fought his way across the outside world and missed their growth. The letters he received had always said they were well, reporting good news but never bad. Yet as he listened to Yue Xuan's account, he gradually began to smile.
Before they knew it, night had fallen.
Yuan Chengsi stood quietly by the lake, not disturbing their reunion. The hair by his ears had already been dyed with a layer of gray.
Ever since Vast Yin Immortal Venerable passed away, Celestial Venerable Zhongji entered seclusion, and their master stepped into Ghost River to create the Rebirth Immortal Scripture and open the path of Heaven and Earth Reincarnation for the Immortal Court, the older generation had gradually faded from the stage.
The disciples he had raised with his own hands had either died or scattered. Even the Kunpeng had turned into the ancient city of the religion. Now, he carried the burden of the Immortal Court's state religion on his shoulders, spreading its teachings throughout a Great World. Every step along the way had been incomparably heavy...
The Tai Yi Immortal Court was far from as powerful as outsiders believed. Within the Taiyi Great World, there were many who refused to submit—especially the hundred Immortal Ancient Forbidden Grounds that reached up to the vault of heaven,