"Father! It really is you, Father!"
Staring at the disheveled man before him, Nie Feng abruptly fell to his knees, clung to the man's legs, and wept uncontrollably.
No one but him knew how he had made it through all these years.
His mother had left him when he was little, and his father had become trapped in Lingyun Grotto because of her. The conviction that had kept him alive was his resolve to avenge his father.
Yet he had never expected to come to Lingyun Grotto and discover that his father was still alive.
The joy of regaining what he had lost shattered his composure completely. Though already in his twenties, he simply clung to his father's legs and wailed.
"Ah..."
Nie Renwang gave a long sigh and stroked his son's head. "Feng, I've failed you all these years."
Nie Feng hurriedly shook his head. "No, Father. All that matters is that you're still alive. Please don't leave me again, all right?"
Nie Renwang nodded and smiled in relief. "All right. I promise you, I'll never leave you again."
Neither Yu Huatian nor Duan Shuai interrupted the father and son's reunion. The two exchanged a glance, and a flicker of surprise involuntarily crossed Yu Huatian's eyes.
"Heavenly Beings?" Yu Huatian raised an eyebrow, somewhat astonished.
According to his intelligence, Duan Shuai and Nie Renwang had both been Supremes of the Martial World in the Great Han Dynasty twenty years ago: one the Southern Lin Sword Chief, the other the Northern Sea Mad Saber.
But they had only ranked among the experts known to the public, and their cultivation had merely been at the Great Grandmaster realm.
Yet now, after vanishing for twenty years, both had actually broken through to become Heavenly Beings.
Duan Shuai had reached the Heavenly Being