Welcome Back Victorious, Your Imperial Majesty! (4K) (Continued)

Whoosh!

Whoosh... whoosh...

For a time,

inside and outside the tomb-raiding tunnel, as well as throughout the surrounding area, aside from Tan Lin and Shao Hanyun, who had just arrived, the gravely injured Li Qingjue, and Kun Zhou and his nephew, who were still concealed in the shadows,

only a scant few audacious people remained, their minds clouded by greed. Relying on their deep foundations and secret treasures for protection, they watched from an extremely distant place, trembling with fear.

At the same time,

Chi Yao and her group, standing amid a stone forest hundreds of thousands of miles away, were equally unable to remain calm when they saw the two figures suddenly step out of the void beyond the tomb-raiding tunnel.

When Tan Lin appeared, and that handsome face she had not seen for many years—familiar, yet seemingly veiled in the dust of time—entered her sight,

Chi Yao, Chi Xuan, and the Song Qiwen brothers were all struck as though by lightning, frozen where they stood.

A trace of daze surfaced in Chi Yao's eyes. Usually serene, her peerlessly beautiful face now betrayed her turmoil.

She stared blankly at the distant figure in green.

Then she looked at the phantom of the array diagram beside him that eclipsed heaven and earth, at those calm, unfathomable eyes that seemed capable of suppressing every unforeseen change...

Buzz...

At that moment, memories surfaced uncontrollably in Chi Yao's mind.

She recalled the youthful figure she had first met in Northwind Ravine decades ago, a boy still so young yet already displaying the bearing to soar into the heavens.

She recalled his upright figure beside Nine-Aperture Spirit Communion Lake, where he had undergone tribulation with her, aided her amid the calamity, and afterward stood with his clothes torn, making her heart tremble faintly...

She