Caw~!
Black Duck transformed into a rainbow streak and came crashing down upon Chen Xun, seemingly intending to plant his backside right on top of him.
Yet this time, Chen Xun's expression was utterly calm. With a single finger, he intercepted Black Duck and knocked him down. The latter rolled several times down the steps, baring his teeth in pain while still cursing loudly.
"Sixth Senior Brother!"
Yue Xuan's face was flushed red, and his deep, booming voice echoed through the Four Emptiness.
His long hair spilled wildly over his shoulders, and his skin possessed the weighty solidity of ancient mountains. The youthful greenness on his face from that year had long since vanished.
At this moment, Qing Fu and the others arrived as well.
Chen Xun swept his gaze across their faces one by one, and a trace of detached bewilderment unexpectedly surfaced in his eyes. The silent erosion of passing years surged fiercely toward his heart.
So much time had already passed...
His junior brothers and junior sisters had all grown up. Their bearing had long become sufficient to stand on their own, to the point that he could barely recognize them.
"Yue Xuan, Qing Fu..." Chen Xun smiled and nodded, though his tone seemed to be confirming something.
"Sixth Senior Brother, what have you been doing all these years?"
Qing Fu blinked her lively eyes and carefully approached Chen Xun's side. "Master said you might have left the Taiyi Great World... Heavens."
At the end, she let out a tiny gasp of amazement. Since the Heaven-Earth Domain Gate had been destroyed, crossing an entire Great World required unimaginable power. Even now, she could not tell what realm of cultivator her Sixth Senior Brother had reached.
"Just wandering around." Chen Xun spoke calmly, but an indescribable unfamiliarity lingered