"Shijie is back?"
The group had only just reached Tianbei City's gate.
A loud shout came from afar.
Immediately afterward, several figures raced over from different directions within Tianbei City.
They moved so fast that they arrived nearby in the blink of an eye.
More than a dozen people had come.
Every one of them possessed cultivation around the Earth Moon Tier, and they had used their full cultivation to travel.
Their speed was easy to imagine.
The first to speak was naturally the city lord.
Before the patriarchs of the three great Lineages could even open their mouths, these people had already rushed over first.
Yet the sight before them made everyone clamp their mouths shut.
Not a single one of the guards originally assigned to this group was anywhere to be seen.
Instead, these youngsters, who had clearly suffered greatly, were gathered around a complete drunkard.
Among their descendants,
the eldest, Du Shijie and Bai Wensong, were supporting the drunkard from either side as they walked.
Although the two of them were already trying their utmost,
every step the drunkard took seemed as though it would trip them both.
Even City Lord Du and the heads of the three great Lineages, who had seen much of the world, were stunned by the scene before them.
"Shijie, who is this?"
Unable to suppress the doubt in his heart, the city lord asked.
Du Shijie's expression visibly turned strange.
He coughed twice and said, "Father, this senior saved us several times in the Cangming Mountain Range. Otherwise, I'm afraid none of us would have made it back."
City Lord Du's eyes immediately widened into perfect circles.
The people from the three great Lineages nearly cried out in alarm as well.
Du Shijie's words sounded as though he were merely recounting