Xiao Hanlan?
Wasn't that the man Black Qilin had asked him to find back in the Southwestern Ancient City on the Illusory Continent in the Human Realm? Hadn't Xiao Hanlan also restored Second Better's cultivation? And he had been asking the Human Race Alliance to help find Xiao Hanlan all this time... why did he look different from the man Second Better had described...?
There he stood!
Xiao Hanlan had fiery red hair and an enormous frame, standing over a hundred feet tall. His skin was bronze, his features resolute as iron, and his face covered in a shaggy beard... he wore a sleeveless garment, with countless runes and beast totems covering his body... barefoot and clad in red trousers, he carried four enormous golden metal bamboo tubes on his back, their surfaces covered with countless mysterious, profoundly intricate runes...
"Haha! Brother Li! You truly are no ordinary man! We finally meet!" Xiao Hanlan laughed heartily as he greeted Li Xiaoya... he seemed exceedingly warm toward him...
"Greetings, Fellow Daoist Xiao!" Something stirred in Li Xiaoya's heart. Though he had questions, this was not the time to ask them. He bowed to Xiao Hanlan with a smile...
"No need for formalities! None at all!" Xiao Hanlan waved a hand. Suddenly, his lips moved slightly as he sent Li Xiaoya a few words through voice transmission...
"!" Li Xiaoya's expression shifted at those words. He glanced at Daode Daoist Patriarch, then bowed to Xiao Hanlan again, this time with considerable respect... but he said nothing more...
Daode Daoist Patriarch continued the introductions...
"This is the Elf Human Race's True Immortal, Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch!" Daode Daoist Patriarch pointed to a True Immortal with an extraordinarily handsome face that even Li Xiaoya could not match, long, slender ears, an exquisitely sumptuous purple-and-gold robe,