On Sea Island in the Misty Sea Region!
"Master!! It really is you!!" Lingyu, who had blossomed into a mature beauty of captivating grace, dropped to her knees before Li Xiaoya with a thud and cried out through her sobs...
"Ah! These years have been hard on you! Get up!" Li Xiaoya had already restored his true appearance. With a quiet word and a beckoning hand, he made Lingyu rise involuntarily...
"Master! I haven't suffered! If you hadn't saved my life back then, I would surely have met a miserable end!" Lingyu hurriedly replied, her beautiful eyes brimming with joy.
As it turned out...
"...!" Yu Linglong, meanwhile, stood frozen to one side, stunned by Li Xiaoya's true appearance and at a loss for words.
"Hehe! How have you been all these years?" Li Xiaoya looked Lingyu up and down. She had grown into a graceful, slender beauty whose looks rivaled Zhang Hong's city-toppling, kingdom-overthrowing loveliness. If Ouyang Haotian saw her, he would probably start entertaining ideas again.
Lingyu calmly let Li Xiaoya look her over and quickly said, "After you all left, Master...!"
As it turned out!
After Li Xiaoya, Mother Li, Liu Xian'er, and the others left Sea Island, Lingyu had only been at the late true cultivation stage, so she naturally dared not venture out into the world. Li Xiaoya had also left her a large quantity of elixirs, so she devoted herself to cultivating on Sea Island. For a girl in her teens, however, those days of cultivation on Sea Island were terribly dull. In her spare time, she planted flowers and tended greenery. Day after day passed, and three or four years after Li Xiaoya and the others left, she finally succeeded in breaking through to the core condensation stage. The greatest credit naturally went