Yue Gongli? Wei An followed the voice and looked over, seeing the man who seemed to arrive with a dazzling halo of light.
He had met Yue Gongli before, more than once.
Back then, they had all been young. Yue Gongli would often secretly slip out of the Saint Emperor Secret Realm to roam the outside world.
Whenever something major happened, Yue Gongli was sure to appear.
He was always above, dazzling beyond compare no matter when.
Many people knew him. Wei An was merely one of them, one of the common masses looking up from below.
If not for the Holy Palace, if not for being chosen by the Saint Guardian Lineage...
Perhaps even after exhausting his entire life, Wei An would never have reached his present position, able to meet Yue Gongli's gaze levelly.
"Young Master Wei An."
Yue Gongli's fox-like eyes curved as he cast a smiling glance over. "This seems to be our first meeting?"
"Mm." Wei An's gaze did not ripple. He merely nodded lightly, offering no explanation.
"No, no, no..." Yue Gongli wagged a finger and smiled. "Perhaps Young Master Wei An has forgotten me, but this is not actually our first meeting."
Yue Gongli casually draped over his shoulders the wanderer's cloak modified from the red robe of the Red Robes Dao Ruling Sovereign. Only then did he speak with a nostalgic expression. "I remember that we met during your generation's Holy Palace Trial."
"Back then, you were here too, undergoing trials in the Four Symbols Secret Realm. You even took first place on the Black Tortoise Golden Pagoda points ranking. I saw it with my own eyes." Yue Gongli pointed beneath his feet and chuckled.
"You forgot, but I did not. Back then, Young Master Wei An's graceful gentlemanly bearing—defeating without killing—became