But then there's that fruit, glowing and all mysterious, tucked away inside you. The Fruit of Eternal Life. Sounds legendary, doesn't it? But here’s the catch – no power to protect yourself! Just a raw thing sitting there while you're stuck doing guard duty in this chaotic mess where cultivators clash like thunderheads and demons practically run the show outside proper control.
Looks like your best bet is staying under the radar, keeping quiet, pushing cultivation whenever possible. And honestly? In this kind of world, that might be the only safe path for a while. Time just... slips by unnoticed when you're invisible, doing the bare minimum to survive each day.
Speaking of surviving, you remember who you once were before all this. You’ve got these little ghosts in your memory – people from way back then you thought nothing about. Like that kid you let get away centuries ago? Now he's shaking the foundations maybe... founding emperor stuff?
Or what about that wandering youth you pointed in the right direction a millennium past? He’s probably a big shot now, some powerful elder in one of those celestial sects full of secrets and prestige.
Even something small, like a pet back then, they’ve blown up into major threats. The dreaded Demon Monarch from the Foreign Lands! That feels... oddly personal for someone stuck on guard detail.
So you watch from the shadows, this cosmic observer role with the eternal warden badge. You see empires crumble and rise again, civilizations bloom and die in cycles. It’s like being part of a slow-motion movie where you’re just waiting, wondering how your own story will end up.
Eventually, though, whispers start floating around about *you*. Not as the quiet keeper, but maybe something more? Could it be that this humble prison guard has quietly climbed his way into becoming the stuff of legend?
Yeah... somewhere out there, people are talking. Eyes turning towards you not with fear anymore, but with a kind of hesitant awe. Maybe they’re wondering about the Fruit inside, or if your immortality ever truly meant more than just surviving as a warden here in this strange new world.
It’s still all very quiet inside those walls though... and that might be exactly how it needs to stay for now.