Before long, Bai Yijian was courteously invited into the main hall. The members of the Mo Household arrived, and hosts and guests took their seats on opposite sides.
"Elder Bai, it has been many years. Have you been well?" The Mo Household Head studied Elder Bai, who had vanished for years. Apart from his complexion having grown pale and less than human, his cultivation also seemed to have improved considerably.
They had once both been newly advanced Earth Rank cultivators at the third transformation. Now, after so many years, the Mo Household Head had long since reached the sixth transformation and become a renowned expert known far and wide. Yet Elder Bai gave him a mysterious sense that he could not see through him.
His cultivation could only be higher, never lower!
Bai Yijian smiled. "Fellow Daoist Mo, thank you for your concern. I have been doing quite well these past years."
"Oh?" As the Mo Household Head spoke, he turned toward the other man beside Bai Yijian, who had yet to speak. "And this fellow Daoist is...?"
"Allow me to introduce him," Bai Yijian said. "This is Fellow Daoist Yang Guang, known as the 'West Ridge Devil Lord.' Fellow Daoist Yang, this is the Mo Household Head, my employer eighteen years ago. And this is Second Elder Mo, and this is Fourth Elder Mo..."
"The West Ridge Devil Lord?" The members of the Mo Household froze at the name. The Mo Household Head thought to himself, I have never heard of him.
"Elder brother, have you ever heard of this so-called West Ridge Devil Lord?"
"Never. But by the look of things, those who come mean no good, and those who mean good do not come..."
"His cultivation seems extremely high. I secretly probed him with my divine sense