"Hey, Fatty! It really is you!" Li Xiaoya looked at Dong Santong, who stood before him plump and fair-skinned, dressed in white robes, with a full head of hair now beneath a gold crown. He showed little surprise and spoke calmly... yet excitement still flickered in his eyes... He stood, looked Dong Santong over, and smiled. "After all these years, you've gotten even fairer and fatter! And your cultivation has reached mighty one stage great perfection. That was fast!"
Indeed!
The cultivator who had appeared was none other than Dong Santong. His face shone with delight, and his cultivation had clearly reached the peak of the late mighty one stage...
In truth, Li Xiaoya had harbored some misgivings about coming. What exactly did the True Immortal from Heavenly Feather and the Immortal Sovereign want with the two of them? And what cultivator, what person, were they supposed to meet...? When Li Xiaoya saw how the ordinary Immortal Race cultivators dressed, however, he recalled Dong Santong's clothing when he had last come to see him after disappearing all those years ago. It had looked much like this...
Besides, Dong Santong had also been taken away by two True Immortals back then...
That had made Li Xiaoya suspect that perhaps they were going to see Dong Santong this time... After all, although he did not know Dong Santong's true identity, the importance the Daode Daoist Patriarch placed on him made it clear that his standing within the Immortal Race was anything but ordinary...
Still...
After so many years apart, Dong Santong had already reached mighty one stage great perfection, and his aura was remarkably steady. Clearly, he was not far from advancing to the immortal tribulation stage... Only, with that full head of hair and his plump figure, he looked rather...
"Hey!