The girl was tall and slender, looking about twenty years old. Her features were beautiful; though she was no peerless beauty, she was still first-rate in bearing and talent.
"Zheng Xuan?"
Lin Xuan's pupils shrank slightly, his face filled with astonishment. He almost thought he had seen wrong. "How could she be here?"
No wonder Lin Xuan was shocked. This woman was the beloved disciple Yue'er had taken in back in the Human World.
Last time, by a twist of fate, Lin Xuan's teleportation in the East Sea had gone awry, and he had unexpectedly returned to the Twelve Heavenly Cloud Provinces. He had seen Liu Xin, Lu Ying'er, and the other girls, but Zheng Xuan alone had been nowhere to be found.
It was said that during one outing, she had inexplicably disappeared.
Though Lin Xuan had felt some regret, there was nothing he could do. Matters in the cultivation world were impossible for anyone to explain clearly. Perhaps that girl had encountered danger and already fallen; perhaps she had met with some other fortuitous opportunity, and her cultivation might even have advanced greatly.
No matter what that girl had encountered, Lin Xuan had never dreamed that several hundred years later, they would reunite in such a way.
Zheng Xuan had actually ascended to the Spirit World as well.
It should have been a joyous, worthy occasion, yet blessing was where calamity lay hidden; she had actually been captured by others, treated as a Cauldron, and brought to the Ten Thousand Treasures Assembly to be sold.
To be fair, as a junior, Zheng Xuan was not especially close to Lin Xuan. However, Yue'er and that girl were master and disciple in name, yet as close as sisters in truth.
If he had not known, then so be it. But