Capítulo 740: Chapter 742 Boss Long
Boss Long and Nian Shutong had an equal contract, sharing life and death, but neither could control the other.
When it came to comparing their strengths, Boss Long was obviously somewhat more formidable.
Nian Shutong continued to practice Alchemy, first successfully preparing elixirs for Elder Hua, and then she made two boxes of Fasting Pills for Fu Yunhe.
Eating one could allow him to withstand several days without food or drink; it could definitely play a significant role in a true emergency.
“Hopefully it won’t be needed.”
“What won’t be needed?”
Boss Long spoke up, startling Nian Shutong, who glared at him and said, “Why are you still here!”
“What, you want to ditch me after using me? You’re like a heartless, ungrateful lover, truly heartless.”
Boss Long took two steps forward and said to Nian Shutong, “Little girl, I’m going to follow you.”
“Wherever you go, I’ll go.”
Nian Shutong wasn’t being heartlessly utilitarian; rather, she hadn’t expected Boss Long to still be around, wanting to follow her.
“Don’t you need to be at that mountain? What will happen to it if you leave?”
“What will happen? I only sleep there; who told you I am the mountain!”
Boss Long still had his hands behind his back, putting on a bossy demeanor as he said, “By the way, when we get back, get me two jars of that monkey’s wine.”
“No.”
Nian Shutong’s refusal was blunt, causing Mr. Long to glare at her discontentedly.
“What are you glaring at? Are your eyes bigger than mine! Mine aren’t small either.”
Nian Shutong childishly compared eye sizes with Boss Long, making him step back two steps disapprovingly.
“With you as the master of Blue Star, the outlook is worrisome.”
“Worrisome or not, just bear with it.”
Nian Shutong continued, “I can’t let you drink alcohol; who knows how much you can handle. If you get drunk and reveal your true form, Blue Star, which I’ve worked so hard to build, would be ruined.”
“Besides, it’s been so many years since you last drank, you can’t just start drinking alcohol.”
Listening to Nian Shutong’s reasons, Boss Long couldn’t deny their logic, but accustomed to supremacy, he could only snort coldly, “I can drink forever without getting drunk; it doesn’t matter how many years I’ve slept.”
Nian Shutong pursed her lips in disbelief.
“What should I call you?”
“You? Considering our seniority and age, calling me Grandpa Long wouldn’t be too much!”
Nian Shutong, who had meant well by asking, snorted coldly, “Why don’t you say I should call you Dragon Ancestor!”
“That’s not impossible either, just a bit of a mouthful, but I can handle it.”
With hands behind his back and looking up at a forty-five-degree angle, Boss Long led Nian Shutong to suppress her emotions and finally said, “At most, I’ll call you Uncle Long. Don’t forget, our contract is one of equals.”
“Sigh, alright, Uncle Long it is.”
Boss Long looked at the unreliable Nian Shutong, shaking his head, “Kid, don’t be so petty.”
Nian Shutong pointed at her own face, stumbling over her words for quite a while without voicing them out. She realized she couldn’t talk with Boss Long; it was too infuriating.
The worst part was, she couldn’t beat him! All this anger, with nowhere to go!
Frustrated.
The frustrated Nian Shutong continued to prepare some external injury medicine to take along for Fu Yunhe.
On the side, Boss Long, watching Nian Shutong’s actions, asked nonchalantly, “Why make these things? Yangyang can heal.”
“I know, but when traveling, it’s not always good to have Yangyang come out.”
Outside?
This time it was Boss Long who was taken aback. He asked in confusion, “Where is ‘outside’?”
“Shouldn’t it be ascending to another realm after advancing?”
Having stored away the elixirs, Nian Shutong ceased her alchemy. She looked at Boss Long and asked calmly, “Uncle Long, can you tell me the truth? How long have you been asleep?”
Uncle Long also started to realize something was off, but he really didn’t have an exact time of how long it has been.
“I don’t know, hundreds of millions of years for sure, or maybe even more.”
Nian Shutong simply walked over to Boss Long’s side, pulled out two chairs, and said to him, “Let’s sit down and talk.”
“You had chairs and you didn’t take them out sooner? That’s really not showing respect for the elderly.”
Nian Shutong definitely resisted the urge to take the chairs back. She sat down next to Boss Long and continued to inquire, “What era was it when you fell asleep?”
“Is there another era? Wasn’t it just our era of Cultivation? Back then, Pangu, Nuwa, and we were all good friends.”
Boss Long’s response gave Nian Shutong a flicker of enlightenment; no wonder he disregarded her cultivation, comparing it to that era, she indeed did not measure up.
However, if considering later generations, she was also part of the second generation of Cultivators, closest to the era of Pangu.
“Uncle Long, there is something I have to tell you, and I hope you are prepared.”
“You’re making a big deal out of nothing. I’ve seen everything. I wasn’t even scared when the descendants shot the sun.”
Boss Long seemed unconcerned, waiting for Nian Shutong to continue.
“Alright then, good.” Nian Shutong took a deep breath and said, “I want to tell you, the Cultivation World is gone, disappeared, lost in the long passage of time.”
“You must have noticed it yourself. The Spiritual Energy here is so thin it’s almost nonexistent, plus this unbearable radiation. The reason I can cultivate here is because my Cultivation Technique is special.”
Nian Shutong paused, looking at Boss Long who remained silent, his face expressionless, just sitting quietly.
It took a while, but Boss Long finally sighed.
“It really came true, it actually came true.”
Boss Long stood up, closed his eyes, feeling the Spiritual Energy in the air and the other entity known as radiation.
“It’s gone, truly gone.”
His aged silhouette was filled with melancholy.
Nian Shutong said nothing; Boss Long had his own pride.
Approximately a few minutes later, Boss Long calmed his emotions and sat back down.
“Some great power had foreseen all of this— I am that sealed one designated as the backbone of Blue Star. I thought it would be different, they were so powerful.”
“What a pity, nothing can withstand the long river of time.”
Boss Long was filled with deep emotion; when he finally looked at Nian Shutong again, he spoke the most affirming words.
“Looking at it now, you barely qualify.”
“Thank you for your compliment, elder.”
Nian Shutong, seeing Boss Long had collected his emotions, began to tell him about interstellar matters, vividly showing a rough outline using the Light Computer.
“It’s all changed, Blue Star has become an unwanted place.”
“What a bunch of blind people!”
After getting an overview from Boss Long, acceptance was all that was left.
“So you mean, we on Blue Star aren’t the most formidable, and you are gradually developing.”
“That’s right,” Nian Shutong nodded.
“Can you manage it? Developing so slowly, you’re embarrassing the dragons.”