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"She doesn't recognize me anymore, does she?" I gave a bitter laugh, asking and answering myself as I reminisced about all the tangled affairs of those years.
But my guess soon fell away like Li Duanyue's pear-blossom tears, sliding down her cheeks before vanishing into the ground. She stared blankly at me, then smiled. "Yitian? Is that you?"
I saw her sizing up the clean Alliance Leader's robes I wore and realized that my appearance and clothing had caused a momentary error in her memory. After all, my dress and bearing were no longer the same as they had been back in the Tianyi Path days. Only she was still wearing that Qiankun Dao robe.
"It's me." I smiled and walked toward her.
Li Poxiao followed behind me, his expression filled with complicated thoughts. The current Li Duanyue was a spiritual body manifested after he had strengthened the sword spirit's energy. Not only had this spiritual body lost none of her memories, she was no different from a living person.
"Yitian! I never thought I would be able to see you again!" Li Duanyue was visibly excited, but just as before, she maintained her restraint while warmth surged through her heart.
"How could I be any different?" I said, then looked toward Li Poxiao. He wore an utterly helpless expression. After all, there could hardly be a more awkward moment than this.
Back then, because of the inevitable relationship between the Qiankun Dao Master and the sword slave, Li Duanyue had ultimately transformed into the spirit of a sword pill. Because of my personal friendship with Li Duanyue, I had vented my fury on Li Poxiao, and the two of us had nearly fought from Earth's plane all the way to the small world of the Jiuzhou Realm. Who