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"New name..."

Liu Ziqing sighed helplessly. "Senior Purple Gold Gourd, I joined the Shu Mountain Sword Sect. By rights, shouldn't I be granted a Daoist title?"

"A Daoist title?"

Purple Gold Gourd blanked for a moment, then immediately understood. "Since your inheritance skipped a generation, you never had a true master, so no Daoist title was bestowed upon you. However, I can grant you one."

"Then please grant me a title, Senior!"

Purple Gold Gourd was a senior of his sect no matter how one looked at it, so it was entirely appropriate for him to bestow a Daoist title. Naturally, Liu Ziqing had no objections.

"Your name contains the character 'Qing.' Let your generation be the Qing generation, then! I grant you the title True Master Qinghe. I hope you cultivate diligently and spread the prestige of our sect."

"Thank you for granting me this title, Senior. Qinghe will certainly cultivate diligently and never fail your kindness in nurturing me."

The freshly minted "True Master Qinghe" bowed with clasped hands. His Taoist robes fluttered around him, making him look just like a True Master who had attained the Way.

"Huh? Daoist robes?"

Liu Ziqing froze. "Senior, isn't this outfit a little too conspicuous?"

Dressed in Taoist robes exactly like before, anyone who saw him would become suspicious.

Even if they discovered he was not the original Liu Ziqing, they would still connect the two based on their identical attire.

"What's so difficult about that? I'll just use the Sky-Splitting Beast's scales to refine you a new outfit."

The Sky-Splitting Beast's flesh and blood had been made into pills, but its scales had been kept. This was the perfect time to use them to refine a new set of clothes for Liu Ziqing.

A short while later, a newly refined