A figure in green appeared before the crowd. It was a young man in a green robe, striding forward in great steps.
"Ye Xiwen!"
"It really is him! He isn't dead! Just as expected—I knew he wouldn't die so easily!"
At that moment, Huo Yi and the others all revealed excited expressions.
"Big Brother?" When Li Ya saw Ye Xiwen again, she could not help but grow somewhat emotional. After all these years, Ye Xiwen was still exactly as he had been before, neither diminished nor changed in the slightest.
Yet she herself had changed far too much.
Ye Xiwen's figure appeared slow, yet was actually swift. In merely a few breaths, he had already arrived at the center of the field.
Though he had long expected it, when Ye Xiwen saw Li Ya again, he still felt that her changes were far greater than he had imagined.
When she had left him, Li Ya had merely been a little girl. Even after more than a hundred years, she had not changed much.
But after arriving on the Ancient Barrens Continent for only a few decades, Li Ya had completely grown into a graceful young maiden.
"You've grown up!" Ye Xiwen could not help sighing. Time passed quickly. There had not been much change in his appearance, aside from his strength continuously rising.
Moreover, he spent most of his time cultivating, and it was common for him to lose track of the days.
Thus, he had never truly felt it. But when he really saw Li Ya, he finally realized that many years had passed since those days of old.
Li Ya smiled somewhat shyly. Before Ye Xiwen, she seemed to still be the same not-yet-grown-up Xia Ya from back then.
This made the eyes of the many experts watching