The gap between us really was growing wider and wider...
After silently sizing up her little junior sister, who was diligently cultivating before her,
Yao Yueyan's gaze soon turned once more toward that enormous celestial body continuously releasing light and heat, feeling the light and heat it transmitted.
She could not imagine just how much light and heat that star had to possess to still illuminate the entire Youyue Great Marsh across such an immense distance,
and tangibly influence this place's cycle of day and night, even the changing of the seasons.
For Yao Yueyan and many others,
while they might not really understand what a star was,
they did understand bonfires.
Able to roughly regard stars as enormous bonfires, they simply could not comprehend how large a bonfire had to be to illuminate the skies and land of the Youyue Great Marsh from tens of billions of kilometers away, while providing the entire Youyue Great Marsh with one-third of its light and heat.
Likewise, not only could they not understand how Ling Wuyuan had crossed tens of billions of kilometers to reach that star in such a short time, they could not understand how he had withstood its inherent Super High Temperature.
In both respects,
they could only feel a gap so vast that they could not even see its full extent.
Thinking back to two years ago,
when they had first met, Ling Wuyuan had only been in the Qi Nourishing Realm.
Yao Yueyan's feelings immediately became incomparably complicated.
Watching with her own eyes as a junior surpassed her, until she gradually could not even see his taillights anymore—it truly did not feel good. In a daze,
she felt as though her gaze had crossed through time, once again seeing the Ling Wuyuan of those days. The past