As the fleeing light dispersed, a white flying boat soon appeared in midair, with two figures standing aboard.
The first was a rather youthful-looking man in a silver-white Daoist robe that occasionally gleamed with silver light. It was Song Qingming, who had spent over two months returning all the way from the Outer Sea.
"Eh! So it is Senior Song. This junior, Yu Bing, pays respects to Senior!"
Seeing that the newcomer had recognized him at a glance, Song Qingming swept his gaze over and discovered that the white-clothed woman bowing before him was the Foundation Establishment maid who had once followed Wang Lingji.
A hundred years ago, when Song Qingming and Bai Yuxian had first returned from Leiyuan Sea, they had happened to encounter Wang Lingji, the friend who had shared hardships with him in the Northern Frontier, on Windless Island.
The one who had led them to meet back then was this white-clothed woman before him, who called herself Yu Bing.
At the time, she had only been at the Late Foundation Establishment Realm. Who would have thought that after a hundred years, this woman would be fortunate enough to form her core and become an Early Golden Core Stage cultivator?
The other person beside Yu Bing was an unfamiliar middle-aged man in black robes. His cultivation was slightly higher than Yu Bing's, and he had already entered the Mid Golden Core Stage.
When he had stepped out to stop them just now, he had looked at Song Qingming with a measure of wariness and questioned him.
Unexpectedly, before he could ascertain the visitor's identity, he suddenly heard Yu Bing address Song Qingming before her as Senior.
Realizing that the other party might be a Nascent Soul Cultivator, the black-robed man's expression changed at once. He hurriedly stepped