"..."
The white-haired elder kept a stoic silence, not rebuffing nor speaking. He and Ba Dan had been friends for many years, so long that he had lost count, only remembering their youthful days adventuring together in the Heavenly Dao Secret Realm.
He sat on Ba Dan's shoulder, slashing through enemies along the way.
Ba Dan was a Body Cultivator and he was a Magic Practitioner; they made a great team. The treasure currently on Ba Dan's wrist was the very one he had lent to Ba Dan just a while ago.
He was all too aware of the humiliation Ba Dan endured. Ba Dan, quite straightforward and always talking about wanting women, yet never acting on it, was generous and reliable with his friends.
Perhaps everyone has such a reliable person by their side, someone who would take a task and complete it well—Ba Dan was that kind of person.
However...