The Strongest Prodigy Doctor

Chapter 866 - 966: The Unexpected Visitor

"No, what on earth is going on? How did it become a thousand years?" At this moment, Ye Tianfan didn't suspect anything at all, because every sensation, everything he felt, was still real, and he also had memories—memories that he had already finished the trial, not that he had just started it!So Ye Tianfan had no doubts, he just felt utterly confused about what exactly had happened!

Bang Dali looked at Ye Tianfan, not quite knowing how to begin. After all, he had held up a full thousand years of Ye Tianfan's time in one go. Those senior brothers who used to be behind Ye Tianfan in cultivation had now caught up and even surpassed him by far; some had already stepped into the Ten Directions Realm, while Ye Tianfan was still in the Thousand Source Realm!

"What exactly happened?" Ye Tianfan was truly on the verge of collapse. He had only entered the Trial of the Heart—hadn't they agreed that if he didn't wake up after at most three days, they would wake him by force? How did it turn into a dream of a thousand years?

Right now Ye Tianfan felt as if he had been thrown straight into a world a thousand years later. Although his strength had grown somewhat, that growth had been unconscious, and not by much. Compared to the blow of having a whole thousand years go by, that bit of improvement wasn't worth mentioning—this was a complete, solid thousand years of time!

And under the influence of the Trial of the Heart, Ye Tianfan didn't harbor any doubts; it had already made him subconsciously believe that all of this was real!

At this moment Ye Tianfan was truly lost. He didn't know what he should do now. After a thousand years, who knew what those temporal turbulences in his original world would have turned into.

The reason Ye Tianfan hadn't given up hope yet was that he felt there might still be a sliver of possibility. If by some chance he went back, maybe not that much time had passed there? The odds were tiny, but what if that tiny chance existed?

Seeing Ye Tianfan's bewildered expression, Bang Dali couldn't bear it anymore and decided to tell him the truth.

It turned out that three days after Ye Tianfan entered the Trial of the Heart, Bang Dali came to wake him. But no matter how Bang Dali formed hand seals, this Iceberg of the Heart wouldn't open at all; it shut everyone outside completely. Even after Tian Chu Zhenren came and tried to shatter the Iceberg of the Heart, he couldn't succeed, because the outer wall of the iceberg was simply too hard.

Even when the Taichu Sect's Tian Chu came in person, he couldn't inflict the slightest damage on that cliff of ice. This left everyone outside in despair; all they could do was wait—wait for Ye Tianfan to wake up on his own and for the Iceberg of the Heart to return to normal by itself. Who could have thought that this wait would last a thousand years.

Back then, when Tian Chu Zhenren learned that Ye Tianfan couldn't be taken out and that they could only wait for him to emerge on his own, he almost collapsed. Tian Chu Zhenren felt that he had ruined Ye Tianfan, since he was the one who had sent Ye Tianfan to undergo the Trial of the Heart. He had never imagined the trial itself would go wrong. But Tian Chu Zhenren never gave up; he stayed here and kept waiting, waiting without end!

However, three hundred years ago, consumed by guilt, Tian Chu Zhenren departed this world, at the age of two thousand one hundred and twenty.

After hearing this, Ye Tianfan became even more dazed. His master was gone—what use would there be in returning to the Taichu Sect now? The person he was closest to was dead. Even if he went back, what could he do? Taifeng Peak surely no longer had any place for him. Taifeng Peak was probably crammed full by now. Without his own master Tian Chu Zhenren sitting in charge, taking in disciples would no longer be based on "feeling a connection," but on seniority!

Just as Ye Tianfan was lost in confusion, a pleasant voice suddenly sounded, making him shiver all over.

Ye Tianfan's expression froze, because he recognized whose voice it was. He could hardly believe it, but the owner of that voice was the very person he had pined for day and night—Qin Ruomeng!

"Ruo Meng?" When Ye Tianfan saw the newcomer, he spoke in disbelief, "Is that you? Is it really you?"

"It's me, it really is me. I made it here!" Qin Ruomeng threw herself straight into Ye Tianfan's arms, crying as she spoke.

Hearing her voice, Ye Tianfan didn't know what to say. He had so, so many things he wanted to tell Qin Ruomeng, but at this moment he didn't even know where to start!

Bang Dali and the others, seeing this reunion, tactfully withdrew. They would come look for Ye Tianfan again after the two of them had their fill of tender moments, since this matter concerned the Iceberg of the Heart.

The Dali Sect had basically relied on the existence of the Iceberg of the Heart to squeeze into the ranks of the Four Major Sects. During this thousand years, with the Iceberg of the Heart unusable, the Dali Sect had directly lost its place among the four; it had even been pushed down to sixth.

If this went on any longer, the Dali Sect would only keep slipping further down!

Bang Dali had already taken over the position of Sect Leader of the Dali Sect, so he wanted to ask Ye Tianfan clearly: if the Iceberg of the Heart could never be used again, the Dali Sect would have to move elsewhere. After all, the people of the Dali Sect had long been dissatisfied with this place; the only reason they stayed was because the Iceberg of the Heart was here.

But right now, all this time belonged to Ye Tianfan and the woman who had guarded him for three hundred years!

After Ye Tianfan and Qin Ruomeng had held each other for a long time, Ye Tianfan asked her, "You… how did you get here?"

Qin Ruomeng was still crying, but upon hearing his question, she answered, "After you disappeared, I went to find Lin Xiaofeng and asked him about every detail. I discovered that everything pointed to the Nine Dragons Cup. So I posted a bounty for the Nine Dragons Cup on the black market. Then, when Long Yuqing and I were examining the cup, a bolt of lightning struck, and I was transported to this world. I happened to arrive at the Flower Fairy Sect. After I cultivated there for over a hundred years, I accidentally heard Master mention you and say it was a pity about you, this heaven's chosen child!"

"After that I carefully questioned her about your situation. When I learned you were at the Dali Sect, I informed Master and rushed over. When I arrived and saw that it really was you, I settled down in the Dali Sect. Who knew that settling down would last three hundred years! I've waited three hundred years for you!" Qin Ruomeng said, and couldn't help bursting into tears again.

Ye Tianfan said nothing after hearing this; he just held Qin Ruomeng tightly in his arms.

Ye Tianfan had no idea how Qin Ruomeng had endured these three hundred years of waiting. Although a thousand years had passed for him, he had almost no impression of those thousand years—he had fallen asleep and, upon waking, a millennium was gone!

But Qin Ruomeng? She had truly, in the most literal sense, waited three hundred years. Added to the hundred-plus years she had cultivated in the Flower Fairy Sect, it was over four hundred years in total.