"Ye Lingyu!"
Shock filled Wang Ba's eyes as he looked at the figure standing before Water-Controlling City below.
She was tall and slender, her face coldly beautiful and fair as frost and snow.
He could still faintly recognize the fair-skinned girl in purple Daoist robes who had so often been covered in dust and utterly bedraggled.
He had thought she had long since perished in that earth-shaking upheaval, and had once sighed over her fate.
After all, back in the Eastern Saint Sect, she had been among the few who treated Wang Ba as an equal when he was still a servant disciple.
The two had also forged a friendship exceedingly rare among cultivators.
He had never expected that she would not only still be alive, but seemingly have made an astonishing leap in strength.
The surging presence of Law Power around her was so overwhelming that he hardly dared be certain it was her.
She was too strong!
The presence around her surged almost tangibly!
Even at such a distance, merely brushing her with his peripheral vision brought a sharp, crushing pain!
In fact, looking across the whole of Water-Controlling City, no one could match her.
Perhaps only Bai Yu, currently overlooking everything from the White Bone Skiff, could compare.
Wait! Could the person he was waiting for be...
A suspicion immediately flashed through Wang Ba's mind.
Meanwhile, Bai Yu, who had yet to make a move, slowly began to emit a teeth-grating series of cracks as his bones rubbed together.
"I've waited far too long for you!"
With those words spoken.
Before Wang Ba could see any movement, Bai Yu had vanished from the White Bone Skiff.
Below.
Inside Water-Controlling City, the Eastern Saint Sect's inner sect disciples all breathed sighs of relief the moment they saw Ye