"It's a miracle. This little place manages to hold on despite you being here." Jin Rou said. There was a man smoking while sitting on a rocking chair. Inside the hut, realms glowed and stars shone brightly. It felt a new age was coming, a new era of brilliance or whatsoever.

The man was wearing tattered clothes as if he was a beggar. There were many dirty spots on him but the handsomeness of his was still there radiating like the sun. If you put him in the streets, he could still be a young master of a poor family.

"Endless River won't be called Endless if it can't withstand me." The man spoke after a long time. The silence between them was natural and normal, "It seems you have yet to kick the bucket."

"How can I? Unless I kill that old man, I won't yet die." Jin Rou shook his head. He helped himself and sat on a wooden chair by the side, "So many years have passed now, and you really are waiting to rot yourself here."

"My sole existence is useless. I'm just waiting for the right moment to die." The man took a smoke once again and said, "Time is ephemeral and permanent at the same time. Once done, you cannot unchange it."

"And you still can't let go of the past." Jin Rou sighed. There was a certain tragedy that happened which made this man who he was right now.

"Why should I let go of the past? It is something which keeps me going to find a way to die." The man coldly said. The death seemed to natural for him and he was unafraid of it. As a matter of fact, he was seeking for that.

"Many sages and overlords want to live longer than time and here you are, wanting to die. Your immortal body is highly sought by anyone here in Thousand Realms and in the above. If you declare your appearance, those few hiding epoch sovereigns might show themselves up." Jin Rou chuckled.

"I am not like the sages and overlords. I am me, and they are they. They can seek for my immortality but I won't give it to them even if it meant living longer." The man wanted to die, true. But he wouldn't let it fall on the hands of other people, even of Han Li.

"It's a shame, then. I have a perfect method for you here to have a natural death." Jin Rou said as if he was disappointed.

This time, the man faced Jin Rou. His blue eyes were deeper than the sea and brighter than the sun. It penetrated deep within the realms of the world, "Many might want immortality, but I don't think you're part of them."

Jin Rou chuckled, "That's true. Being an immortal is a nuisance. Living is also tiring. Trillions of years that I'm alive is already more than enough."

The man didn't comment on this. But he agreed that living was tiring. Many epochs have opened yet there was still no change. Friends and foes die after one another because they couldn't avoid the erosion of time.

"Then why do you want my immortality?" The man asked. Since Han Li wasn't fond of it, what would be the use of giving it to him?

"Because just like you, I don't want people from taking it. The temptation of your immortality is too much. It cannot stay put those monsters hiding in the shadows. You might have noticed it already that there were active tracks in Endless River." Jin Rou said.

While he was walking the Endless River, he noticed some very faint tracks of foreign existences. It was more than enough to tell that there's something going on. Other people wouldn't notice this but with Han Li's deep eyes, it's obvious.

"They are already suspecting that I'm hiding here." The man said. This was inevitable. He had seen this coming. He couldn't hide for forever, after all.

"Suspecting? No, wrong. They know that you're here. They're just testing the waters. Sooner or later, they will come to you prepared." Jin Rou said. All of his words were true, "They have planned this for a long time now and since they're very daring to walk on your territory, they might have some powerful backer to help them."

,m "Aside from you, who could be a match of me here in this Thousand Realm?" The man asked.

"Do you really think that he's already dead?" Jin Rou was serious.

"What do you mean?" The man creased his brows. For the first time, he showed great caution, "I personally have killed him, you're there too."

"That's what I thought too." Jin Rou shook his head, "But it seems he managed to slip through my eyes."historical

It was the reason why Jin Rou was here. Han Li wanted to tell this to the man. After all, he realized it a bit late. Fortunately, things weren't late yet.

It had been billions of years now. For sure, that existence had fully healed the wounds now. Furthermore, the tracks here in Endless matched that existence's trail and smell.

"That's why you want to take my immorality away. To prevent those people from rising once again." The man said. He puffed a smoke again and took a deep breath.

"It is the for the sake of your beloved and this world. Your partner loved this world so much and I don't think you can see it crumble because of them." Jin Rou said.

"And you're using to your advantage to get it?" The man laughed sarcastically.

"Honestly, I don't even need to talk to you if I want to have your immortality. You know me. I have all the items and resources to extract it from your body by force. If I need to sacrifice your descendants to keep the world in order, I will do it." Jin Rou was speaking with coldness and harsh in his tone, "But I'm not because you have once served me and pave a way in the past. I cannot ignore your contribution."

Hearing this, the man laughed because everything Jin Rou said made sense.