Jialan Nord stood rooted to the spot for a full ten breaths.
Her mind was completely blank!
Since ascending to the Divine Realm, she had never been so shaken.
Not even when she had encountered that so-called Nether Lord within the Nether Tower had she been this stunned.
In just a hundred thousand years!
A boy at the second level of the Divine Power Realm had actually soared to become the Silver Empire's foremost expert, taking control of imperial power!
What on earth had happened to this boy over those hundred thousand years?
After ten breaths of blankness, all manner of complicated emotions flooded Jialan Nord's heart.
The strongest among them was—regret!
If she had not been so arrogant a hundred thousand years ago, if she had accepted Jiang Feng as her disciple, what would things be like now?
The person she had once refused even to spare a glance now actually... sat high upon the Silver Empire's dragon throne, looking down upon this continent—and upon her!
A sentence suddenly echoed in Jialan Nord's heart:
"Back then, you ignored me whenever I sought you out. Now, I stand beyond your reach!"
Back then, she had ignored Jiang Feng and could not even be bothered to look at him properly. Even knowing full well that Jiang Feng had saved her life, she had still been unwilling to entangle herself with him through karma.
But now, after merely a little over a hundred thousand years, Jiang Feng had become someone beyond her reach.
She simply could not understand how a hundred thousand years had allowed a boy at the second level of the Divine Power Realm to grow into a late seventh-level True God Realm expert—and possess such terrifying strength.
Mu Guiqing and Yuchi Zhengde exchanged a glance. They understood now.
So,