The voice was hoarse and ancient, as if it had come from before antiquity itself, carrying boundless traces of time.
"Uh..."
Hun Yu seemed as though someone had seized him by the throat, leaving him instantly speechless.
Yet no one paid attention to Hun Yu's loss of composure. Everyone's gaze fell upon the black-robed figure who had suddenly appeared.
"Brother Xiao Yan, you finally came out."
Xun'er looked at the figure before her with utter delight.
"Yes, I came out with you all."
Xiao Yan's pitch-black eyes casually swept over the crowd.
"There's something strange about this fellow's gaze."
Every expert Xiao Yan looked at lowered their heads. Those black eyes, carrying endless age, seemed able to peer directly into their hearts and instantly see through their hidden thoughts, making them intensely uncomfortable.
"Xiao Yan, weren't you trapped in the illusion and taken away by the Bodhi Ancient Tree? How are you still alive?!"
Hun Yu cried out in shock.
"Who told you I was trapped in the illusion? I came out before all of you. The Bodhi Ancient Tree found me pleasing to the eye and let me enter its body to gain enlightenment beneath the Bodhi Tree. I underwent the trials of Hundred Generations Reincarnation, so I came out a little later."
Xiao Yan gave Hun Yu a strange look.
"Enlightenment beneath the Bodhi Tree? Hundred Generations Reincarnation!"
"It is said that experts who undergo the Bodhi Ancient Tree's Hundred Generations Reincarnation possess the potential to reach Dou Di in the future!"
"I wonder what Young Pavilion Master Xiao Yan's cultivation is now?"
As soon as Xiao Yan said this, the many experts looked at him with envy. This was a tremendous opportunity, something one could not obtain merely by wishing for it. It depended on fate.
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