( He laughs, and doesn't try to hold back: he's just as old, of course, even with sixteen years of darkness left as an inexplicable stretch of time between them. )

Immortals, not immortals, cultivators have longer lifespans, but few are truly ancient. We're of an age, but he is the man with the more richly experienced life.

( Sixteen years more of enriched experience, one might say. )