Only about six major realms apart?
Honestly, the gap was a tiny bit enormous. Over the next seven years, he would need to break through at least one major realm every year just to catch up.
He recalled his Huanhuan's dreamlike, exquisite face and immortal grace. She had even changed her hairstyle to a soaring-cloud bun, also called an auspicious-cloud bun. Her hair coiled like clouds, borne aloft above her head, swaying without falling, its lofty coils adorned with a jeweled hairpin slanting down.
The First Emperor had decreed that the empress wear a cloud-soaring bun, the three consorts wear nine-ring immortal-gazing buns, and the nine imperial concubines wear phoenix-greeting buns.
When he had watched the television drama The Queens in his previous life, Yaya had worn just such a soaring-cloud bun.
That fleeting backward glance the Ancient Female Double-Pupil had cast as she left had truly been breathtakingly beautiful, impossible to forget.
As for the Ancient Female Double-Pupil, she had left Demon Spirit Lake's million-li territory in just two steps.
With a single stride, Heaven and Earth shrank, and the sun, moon, mountains, and rivers wheeled backward. The land beneath her feet seemed to become a map. Her blue robes fluttered, and in the blink of an eye, she vanished from Xiao Tian's sight.
A hollow sense of loss welled up in his heart. He was still too weak!
If he were strong enough, he would already have chased after her and spanked her. Teasing her future husband like that was far too tantalizing.
Soon, many creatures of Demon Spirit Lake turned livid and roared in fury. Had their foundations not been so deep, their entire lineage would almost have been wiped out this time, and they had gained nothing in the end. Worse still, the Demon Spirit Flower,