While Lin Feng and Feng'er were heading to the Northwest Continent, far away in Starfall Pavilion in the Southern Region of the Central Province, Yao Chen sat inside a bamboo house atop a mountain, staring at a pale flame before him with a face full of delight and disbelief.
More precisely, he was staring at a woman's face within that pale flame.
"Shanshan, is it really you?"
After a long silence, Yao Chen tremblingly reached out, incredulously touching the face within the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
Although his hand passed straight through the Heavenly Flame the instant it touched it,
he was still incomparably emotional.
The person he had searched for over a hundred years had finally been found today.
Seeing his expression, Han Shanshan was equally overwhelmed with emotion.
Upon hearing his question, she nodded heavily and said with a faint sob in her voice, "It's me."
"But why are you inside the Bone Spirit Cold Flame?"
Having received her answer, Yao Chen spoke in a complicated tone.
Thinking that the person he had painstakingly searched for over a century had been by his side all along, he could not help but feel a trace of resentment.
He did not know whether he blamed himself for failing to discover Han Shanshan's existence for so long, or blamed her for hiding within the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and never coming out to see him.
As for Xiao Yan, he stared blankly at the person and the flame, having no idea what was going on or what he was supposed to do.
From their earlier conversation, this woman was obviously acquainted with his teacher.
But hiding a person inside a Heavenly Flame was something he had never heard of before!
Hearing Yao Chen's complaint, Han Shanshan immediately pouted and said aggrievedly,