"Miss?!"
Seeing Meng Xunqing neither speak nor acknowledge them, but prepare to sit down in meditation again, the beautiful woman from Empress Island called out anxiously.
Yet Meng Xunqing still paid her no heed. Without even turning her head, she simply closed her eyes, clearly unwilling to say anything more.
The twelve Emperor Realm experts of Nine-Dragon Island and the countless cultivators around them fell silent, watching Meng Xunqing with astonishment and admiration.
True love was not exactly rare beneath the heavens. But those who would genuinely abandon the Great Dao for their beloved were as scarce as phoenix feathers and qilin horns, especially among cultivators who had already reached the Emperor Realm. Which of them did not put the Great Dao first?!
"Congrat...ulations..."
Just then, a rough, slightly hoarse voice rose, awkward from disuse...
"Young master?!"
"High Priest?!"
"Great Huan's sovereign?!"
"Great Huan's sovereign has awakened?!"
Cries of astonishment and excitement rose one after another, stirring a small storm as everyone stared wide-eyed at the figure before Meng Xunqing.
Immediately afterward, countless streaks of light shot in all directions like a storm, becoming a little tempest that swept across the Two Seas and even the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.
Even Meng Xunqing's beautiful eyes widened, gleaming fiercely with unmistakable excitement, elation, joy, and a tangle of emotions beyond words.
Xiao Ying, who had remained motionless as a statue for ten years, suddenly opened his eyes and looked with complicated feelings at Meng Xunqing, seated before him...
"Congratulations, Fairy Xunqing..."
His consciousness still hazy, Xiao Ying congratulated her again. Then he paused and changed his wording. "Congratulations on attaining the Emperor Realm!"
Xiao Ying did not know precisely how long he had spent in meditation. Yet he had sensed his surroundings as though in a dream, always aware of