Outside the dormitory.
Mu En leaned on his cane, his expression rather peculiar.
Th-this... did I just see something extraordinary?
"Since you're here, don't just stand at the door." Wang Xian'er's soft, amused voice drifted out of the dormitory, and the door opened on its own.
"Ahem..."
Mu En cleared his throat twice. Without the slightest embarrassment at having been caught eavesdropping, he ambled into Su Yuan's dormitory and saw the two sitting at the tea table, brewing tea.
They were embracing just a moment ago, and now they're sitting primly with teacups in hand, staring straight out the window. Whatever could they be trying to hide?
Such a difficult mystery.
An old fox seasoned by the years, Mu En narrowed his eyes and thoughtfully stroked his beard.
"It's been a long time. To think you've reached this stage as well. The world truly is unpredictable." He sat down opposite Su Yuan and Wang Xian'er, looking at her with a complicated expression.
Setting the gossip aside for now, Wang Xian'er's current state genuinely startled Mu En.
He had not seen her earlier demonstration of the mysteries of yin-yang complementary dual soul cores to Su Yuan, but he had sensed the profound aura around her, on the same level as his own.
That meant she had already reached the realm of Limit Douluo, and her foundations were exceptionally deep, scarcely inferior to his.
What puzzled Mu En, however, was that she was already quite old. Even by the standards of a Limit Douluo, she belonged among the middle-aged and elderly.
So why was Wang Xian'er's life aura so brimming with youthful vitality?
How had a two-hundred-year-old crone become such a youthful maiden?
Moreover, the feeling Wang Xian'er gave him was unlike that of an ordinary Limit Douluo. She was like a