Bang.
The door shut softly, separating the inside from the outside into two different worlds.
The atmosphere in the room also underwent a subtle change the instant the lock clicked into place.
The faint innocence of a girl swiftly faded from Gu Yue's face, replaced by a calm, restrained majesty.
She slowly walked back to the sofa and sat down. Her posture was natural, yet she carried an aura that permitted no contradiction.
Di Tian had already risen to his feet and stood respectfully at the side, his complicated gaze replaced by reverence.
Gu Yue raised her eyes to Di Tian. Her voice was calm and unruffled as she spoke only two words. "What did you find?"
The young man's face and mannerisms immediately surfaced clearly in Di Tian's mind.
After a moment of contemplation, he answered cautiously, "From his appearance and build to certain subtle expressions, he is extremely similar to Spirit Ice Douluo in his youth."
"If he were a few years older and fully grown, I fear... they would be almost exactly identical."
He had personally seen Huo Yuhao ten thousand years ago. This judgment carried tremendous weight.
Gu Yue's slender fingers lightly tapped the sofa armrest as she fell into brief thought. Then she asked, "Can two people with such similar appearances and temperaments truly exist in this world?"
Di Tian could not offer a definite answer to that question. It lay beyond the scope of his understanding.
His eyebrows furrowed tightly as he continued along his train of thought. "Not only that, but the aura faintly circulating around him... is also similar to Spirit Ice Douluo's."
"But upon closer examination, there seem to be subtle differences. It is not completely identical."
"Could he... be a descendant of Spirit Ice Douluo left behind on the continent,