"Ling Rui!"
Seeing this Yang Clan Prodigy again after so many years, Zi He and Jia Huarai both revealed looks of delight.
They had assumed that the Yang Clan would send a Spiritual Connection Realm cultivator to receive them, but they had never expected this Azure Waves Mandate Official to come personally.
Yang Lingrui had not changed much from before. Other than growing taller and more solidly built, he still bore the face of a young man just past his coming-of-age.
After instinctively calling out his name, Zi He's movements stalled slightly. He exchanged a glance with Jia Huarai beside him, then the two raised their hands in salute together. "We pay our respects to Mandate Official Yang."
Yang Lingrui knew that the two were extending formal greetings on behalf of the Tiger Chasing Dynasty to the Yang Clan, so he returned the salute. "Greetings, Fellow Daoists. It has been many years since we last met. Seeing that you are both well and have made progress upon your Dao paths, Ling Rui is happy for you as well."
Sixty years ago, when Yang Lingrui had first encountered the Li Family's Young Master in Feng Ling, and when he had first seen True Person Void Sword, Jia Huarai, stand alone against the cultivators of the Lanyue Sect, he had held both of them in awe.
Back then, he could never have imagined a scene like this.
That Qi Gathering minor cultivator who had encountered an assassination attempt by Blood Feather Hall cultivators outside a treasure land and nearly lost his life.
That Yellow Wind Evil Ghost who, amid the grand affairs of the Dynasty, had played the role of a butcher upon the battlefield as a mere chess piece, seeking chances for his family's survival and growth.
Now, he had truly