Among these people, two were Xiang Lian'er and her guard Yuan Gang, whom Lu Xiaotian had once traveled with for a time in Woundless City. Xiang Lian'er was dressed in a white gown, her clothes luxurious; she was no longer anything like her former low-key and distressed self in Woundless City. They had not seen each other for so long, yet Xiang Lian'er had already reached the Golden Core Late Stage. Her progress could not be called anything but swift. It seemed her cultivation talent had won the royal family's attention, allowing her to be accepted back into the imperial clan. Even Yuan Gang, who stood beside her, had risen with the tide.
But times had changed. When Xiang Lian'er and Yuan Gang saw Lu Xiaotian now, the shock in their hearts was naturally even greater. Yuan Gang in particular remembered that when he had first encountered Lu Xiaotian at Woundless Lake, Lu Xiaotian had only been an injured man. Even after recovering, his cultivation had still been inferior to Yuan Gang's. Yet after not seeing him for some time, they had met again only to find that Lu Xiaotian had left him far behind, becoming powerful enough to suppress a late-stage expert like the Soul-Seizing Infant Monk. Later, Xiang Lian'er had just broken through to the Golden Core Stage when the two sides fell out, their accounts settled. They had not seen each other for several decades, and neither had expected that when they met again, the gap between them would have grown so enormous. The other had already become a lofty Nascent Soul Ancestor.
"Just a mere Foundation Establishment junior dares to step forward and run wild, ignorant and fearless. Every grievance has its perpetrator, and every debt its debtor. Hou Lie, since you resorted to the despicable