"You're... Xiao Chen? You forcibly interrupted your cultivation halfway through your breakthrough?"
Lan Yin stared at the young man before her, radiant with divine light, and her heart jolted.
At first glance.
She felt that the young man before her and the one she had previously imagined.
Were utterly different.
White robes like blood, a face like a young immortal's.
This young man.
Was far too otherworldly.
He looked nothing like a country boy from a feeble little dynasty such as Great Xia.
Moreover.
Earlier.
Hadn't the rumors said.
Xiao Chen was gravely wounded and barely clinging to life?
Looking at his vigor now, like a spirited dragon and a fierce tiger, where was the slightest trace of illness?
"Big Brother, your wounds!" Ke Hei exclaimed in shock!
He had never expected.
Xiao Chen to emerge from seclusion so soon.
Though he had not broken through the King Gate!
Yet.
At this moment, Xiao Chen's spirit was whole, his vitality brimming, his aura like a dragon's.
His injuries.
Had actually healed completely!
Coupled with the astonishing manifestations that had continually spread from the hall earlier.
During this seclusion.
Xiao Chen must have made tremendous gains!
Attempting a breakthrough on the eve of battle.
In just a few hours.
From gravely wounded and dying!
To returning to his peak.
Though he had not broken through.
It was still utterly terrifying!
"Thank you for caring!"
Xiao Chen nodded lightly, and the way he looked at Ke Hei had changed, gaining a few threads of warmth.
If previously.
He had merely regarded Ke Hei as a companion who had once fought shoulder to shoulder with him.
Now.
He regarded him as a brother.
Xiao Chen's principle for dealing with others was quite simple.
If others did not betray him, he would not betray