Gongsun Jiayan was certain that the man before her really was Qin Fengming, whom she had met once before. Her heart was a tangled mixture of emotions—delight mingled with a trace of restraint.
Her delight went without saying. As for her restraint, it was because the other party's cultivation had already reached a level at which she could no longer speak to him casually. At the same time, there was another matter weighing on her: the way Qin Fengming addressed her.
The young man before her called her elder sister Jingyao, yet called her Miss Gongsun.
The difference in closeness was already plain for all to see.
Qin Fengming naturally had no idea what the female cultivator before him was thinking. Yet from the occasional strange glimmers in the beautiful cultivator's eyes, he could still guess at something.
Situ Nian had once told him that the Gongsun sisters had gone together to the Luoxia Sect to look for him, only to hear that he had perished in the Ancient Battlefield. That was precisely why Gongsun Jiayan had left the Hundred Skills Gate and ventured alone into the Yuanfeng Empire's immortal cultivation world.
If the female cultivator before him had not felt anything for him, she naturally would not have done such a thing.
But Qin Fengming's small-peasant mindset was deeply rooted. Since he had chosen Gongsun Jingyao from the beginning, it was naturally difficult for any other woman to enter his heart. He had never revealed any desire to monopolize a harem of beauties.
Only after two hours did Qin Fengming finally learn what the female cultivator before him had experienced after leaving the Hundred Skills Gate.
When Gongsun Jiayan had gone out to gain experience, her cultivation had been only at the late Foundation Establishment stage. In Haoyu Kingdom,