Although the other party's surprise had indeed been expected, the words that followed nearly made Xiao Yan choke on his own saliva.
Yao Wan looked at Xiao Yan with a hint of gloating. It seemed everyone already knew exactly what sort of person he was.
"I only came back for a look. There's no need to talk about me like that, is there?"
Xiao Yan let out a long, helpless sigh before raising his eyes. At a glance, he saw his blood relative at the forefront, whose long robe still could not conceal those long legs.
"Mm... I more or less guessed, but it really is you, Xiao Yu. I thought you would have returned to the Xiao Clan after all these years."
The moment he saw Xiao Yu, Xiao Yan immediately understood whom Yao Wan had been coyly referring to.
Still, it was not surprising.
As a member of the Xiao Clan, Xiao Yu also possessed the Dou Di Bloodline that had been awakened because of him. With the Dou Di Bloodline's aid, the revived world, and decades of cultivation, it was hardly strange for her to have progressed even among the Dou Saints.
The only thing that surprised him was that Xiao Yu seemed to have remained at Jia Nan Academy as an elder.
"Xiao Ning is there in our branch of the Xiao Clan. Besides, the Xiao Clan is packed with experts now, and your eldest and second brothers are holding down the fort. One more me makes no difference, and one less me makes no difference either."
Facing this younger clansman with whom she had once had conflicts in childhood, whom she had also helped, and who had ultimately traveled the world and earned an eternal name, Xiao Yu could not connect the person before her