Haishan Liao was genuinely delighted. Though they had met only once, he felt that he and Gao Haoguang had gotten along quite well.
Coupled with the good relationship between the Three Penglai Islands and the Three Truths Dharma Gate, which had always secretly supported the Three Truths Dharma Gate against the Myriad Karma Corpse Immortal, he had been deeply worried when Gao Haoguang and the others were forcibly invited away by Saiga. Unfortunately, he lacked the strength to help, and later his father had refused to accompany him to the Forgetfulness River Academy to rescue them.
Now that he saw Gao Haoguang and the others safe and sound, even here to attend the Forgetfulness River Academy's grand reopening ceremony, the burden in his heart was finally lifted.
Haishan Liao had relaxed, but after Haishan Liao greeted him, the heart Gao Haoguang had been holding onto died completely.
"Who are they? Why is a Penglai successor taking the initiative to greet them?"
"Don't know them. That whole group looks so weak."
"Do not be presumptuous. Anyone so close to a successor of Penglai Island must come from an extraordinary background."
"Maybe they're from some reclusive sect, and we simply can't see through them."
"Wait, look at the mark on that person's sword..."
"Gasp... I think I've seen it in the records. Is that the Three Truths Dharma Gate?!"
"The Three Truths Dharma Gate? Didn't they say it had been wiped out?"
"Who knows? Maybe they reopened their gates too. Didn't the Forgetfulness River Academy also say it underwent a drastic upheaval and only reopened after lying dormant for a thousand years?"
The attention and chatter coming from all directions nearly made the Three Truths Dharma Gate group cover their faces and flee. Yet their sect's dignity was on the line, so