No one else deserved to dress in all white than the man.
Just when the man took off his white robe, everyone turned to look at him.
“The man in the dragon mask? It's you again! It seems like our master's lesson has fallen on deaf ears. How dare you show yourself again?”
Anderson and the others recognized the man right away, the man who was dressed in all white and donned a dragon mask.
He was the man who had inflicted trials and brought tragedies upon Chu Sect all these years.
Not long before, Chu Tianqi had beaten him up severely.
He thought that the man would toe the line after that, at least for some time.
However, they didn't expect him to show himself at Mount Yan.
Hence, Anderson and the others were agitated.
Nonetheless, the man in the dragon mask did not seem to pay heed to the people of Chu Sect as they questioned him.
He turned around and headed toward Sword Saint and the others.
“T-Thank you for saving my life. However, the martial arts world of China has met its downfall. It will not be honorable for me to keep troubling you. If I were to reincarnate in my next life, I will surely repay your kindness together with King of Fighters. Nonetheless, it is best for you to leave right now,” Sword Saint said.
After all, Chu Sect was too powerful.
Even though Sword Saint felt indebted to the man in the dragon mask, they were not related after all. Hence, he could not let the mystery man protect China on behalf of War God Castle and offend Chu Sect.
Hence, after thanking the man in the dragon mask, Sword Saint let out a soft sigh and asked him to leave them.
The man in the dragon mask let out a chuckle. “Leave? If I lose my home country, where else would I go?”
Though it was a hearty chortle, there was a hint of melancholy to it.
Sword Saint and the others were stumped. King of Fighters also lifted his head in response.
“Y-You are...”
The man in the dragon mask did not answer. He took off his mask and revealed the somehow familiar yet strange face to the group.
“Y-Ye? Are you... Ye?”
When the man in the dragon mask took off his mask, Sword Saint and King of Fighters were stunned.
They widened their eyes in disbelief as they transfixed their gaze at the man before them.
Perhaps from shock, or even touched by the revelation, Sword Saint, who had been a stern man his whole life, brimmed with tears at the sight.
It had been three years since.
Well, almost three years.
Ever since Ye Fan's incident, Ye Qingtian had removed himself from War God Castle. Since then, Sword Saint had not heard any news on Ye Qingtian.
Before the crisis happened in China, Sword Saint had been thinking if Ye Qingtian would make a return.
However, the man had not shown himself even when Tang Hao died.
Hence, Sword Saint and the others had not harbored any hopes that Ye Qingtian would ever return.
Thus, they certainly did not expect that to happen...
After the initial shock, Sword Saint's shaky hands held on right to Ye Qingtian's arms as he patted the latter on his chest a few times. It was as if he was blaming him for showing himself too late.
“Ye, why are you only showing yourself now... We thought that you were still mad at us and that you've abandoned War God Castle and left us to die,” King of Fighters lamented.
They were finally seeing a glimmer of hope after wallowing in despair for far too long.
It was as if they were drowning, and Ye Qingtian was their lifeline who appeared right on time.
Hence, it would not be difficult to imagine King of Fighters and Sword Saint's joy.
“After all, we have founded War God Castle together. China is also my home country. No matter how mad I am at you guys, I will not sit idly by and watch you guys get obliterated by Chu Sect,” Ye Qingtian said in a low voice.
There was an inexplicable expression on Ye Qingtian's craggy face.
As he aged, he came to realize that there was no absolute right and wrong in the world.
For example, Ye Fan's incident. Was Sword Saint truly in the wrong?
Of course, judging from Ye Qingtian's perspective, Sword Saint and the others were to be blamed.
However, given Sword Saint's position, could he be truly at fault for the matter?
It was only a matter of perspective.
Besides, it had been a long time since, and there was nothing they could do to change the fact.
It was time to let go of the grudges.
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