Farewell, Old Friend! A Fragrant Whisper!

Li Bufan nodded. "That's right. I've come to see your shopkeeper. Please inform her, miss."

Before the maid could reply, someone inside the building had already recognized him.

Tianxiang Tower was not usually so lively during the day, but because of Li Bufan's arrival, a crowd gradually gathered around.

"This is Li Bufan? The one from last year's Prefectural Competition?"

"Isn't it? Back then, he fought across realms from the Body Tempering Realm against the Qi Condensation Realm—and actually won. You should've seen that scene..."

The discussions rose and fell around him, but Li Bufan turned a deaf ear. He merely stood quietly in the hall and waited.

Just then, a sharp cry rang out from upstairs. "Hmph! I thought you weren't coming!" Before the words had faded, a red figure swept down the stairs, trailing a fragrant breeze as she lunged straight at Li Bufan's face.

Li Bufan looked up and saw that the newcomer wore twin ponytails tied into bun-like knots. Her pale red dress accentuated her graceful, curvaceous figure.

Though she was only sixteen, she already had a figure with all the right curves.

The newcomer was none other than He Wanxing. After more than a year apart, the little girl from back then had blossomed into a slender young beauty.

Li Bufan cupped his fists. "Miss He—"

Before he could finish, He Wanxing had already struck with her palm. The force of her palm was fierce, true qi surging within it. Li Bufan raised a brow slightly. With a sweep of his Spiritual Sense, he saw through her cultivation at a glance.

Back then, He Wanxing had only just entered the Meridian Connecting Realm. Yet after more than a year apart, her cultivation had actually reached the third level of the Dantian Realm.

Such progress was