Hehe Fellow Daoist

Wang Li reached out his hand directly towards her.

"Safe in the bag" was the principle he and Lü Shenliang followed when traveling.

Otherwise, no matter how eloquently you spoke, if it wasn't safe in the bag, it was like farting – completely useless.

He Lingxiu didn't waste any words. With a flick of her sleeve, a spirit stone pouch flew directly from her sleeve into Wang Li's hand.

Wang Li caught the spirit stone pouch and opened it. Inside were seven round, pigeon-egg-sized crystals. These seven crystals felt like a thin crystalline shell encasing a mass of true liquid.

The spiritual energy within had condensed into liquid form, rolling like waves inside the crystals.

"These are actually Baoji Sect's Baoji Spirit Sources. These seven spirit sources, they couldn't have come from a questionable source, could they?" Wang Li asked suspiciously.

He Lingxiu immediately let out a chuckle, "What's legitimate or not about things from the Scorched Wood Market?"

"That's true." Wang Li nodded. He looked at He Lingxiu with newfound respect.

Putting aside her boldness in casually tossing out seven Baoji Spirit Sources worth three and a half million spirit sand, just her calm demeanor when facing him and Lü Shenliang was enough to show that she was definitely not a good girl who had piled up her cultivation under the careful protection of her sect elders.

"Then why don't you come up to our lonely peak and we can discuss the specifics?" Wang Li continued.

He Lingxiu's mind immediately flashed back to the scenes from earlier. The smile on her face stiffened slightly. "No need, we can talk here."

Wang Li thought her expression was a bit strange. "When do we need to set off?"

"Naturally, the sooner the better." He Lingxiu glanced at Lü Shenliang and said, "However, your senior sister should not accompany us. You should know what kind of business is conducted at the Scorched Wood Market. Your senior sister's features are too distinct, and the Seven Treasures Ancient Domain is not suitable for a high-level cultivator like her to enter."

Lü Shenliang remained noncommittal about the first part of her statement, but she clearly took issue with the last sentence. "I'm considered a high-level cultivator?"

He Lingxiu smiled faintly. "You should know better than I do that neither of you are ordinary cultivators."

"Could this female cultivator from the Huayang Sect have some special qi-sensing technique?" Lü Shenliang's eyes suddenly lit up, and her expression became full of interest.

A complete plan immediately formed in her mind: interrogate this Huayang Sect female cultivator and then let her see what was so strange about Wang Li.

Seeing her expression at that moment, Wang Li immediately understood what she was scheming. He put on a pained face and said, "Senior Sister, we're here to do business with her."

"Oh."

Lü Shenliang thought about it and realized he was right. Moreover, even with all her methods, she couldn't figure out anything unusual about Wang Li. She figured that no matter how special this Huayang Sect female cultivator was, she wouldn't be able to find the reason for the anomaly in Wang Li's cultivation of the Profound Heaven Dao Arts.

He Lingxiu's expression changed slightly. She had a premonition that she had just walked through some unpredictable danger.

"If there's nothing else, you should leave with me immediately," she said to Wang Li.

Even she felt inexplicably uneasy facing Lü Shenliang, as a cultivator like that couldn't be judged by common sense.

Wang Li glanced at Lü Shenliang.

Lü Shenliang had already understood his meaning. She waved her hand and said, "You go. I promise I won't self-detonate my Golden Core."

Wang Li gave a wry smile, but he was still a bit conflicted. According to their usual habit, as long as he wasn't on the lonely peak, Lü Shenliang would typically be in secluded cultivation, thus avoiding any impulsive actions when her mind was in a chaotic state. However, this time was different. Because they had benefited from Old Ancestor Tong Hui's tribulation, the thirty-one peaks of the Profound Heaven Sect wanted a piece of the pie. After he flatly refused, he was worried that they might come looking for trouble during this time. Furthermore, he and Lü Shenliang hadn't gone to the back mountain since their return from this trip, and the Gold-Devouring Beast there also needed care.

"Don't worry. It will still take some time for his Azure Profound Sword Qi to reach great mastery," Lü Shenliang said dismissively. "Before his Azure Profound Sword Qi reaches great mastery, how dare he come looking for trouble with me? Unless you never come back, nothing will happen to you before you return."

Wang Li thought about it and agreed. However, Lü Shenliang's words reminded him of something. He immediately turned to He Lingxiu and said, "Your name is He Lingxiu? Do you have any other names besides He Lingxiu?"

He Lingxiu frowned slightly.

Normally, she was unfathomable, but when facing Wang Li and Lü Shenliang, she was completely unable to figure them out.

"In the Huayang Sect, I naturally use my real name. As for when I'm outside... I usually go by He He."

"He He... hehe? That doesn't sound particularly unlucky." Wang Li thought for a moment and then said to her very seriously, "After we leave the Profound Heaven Sect's territory, don't call me Wang Li. You can call me Wang Bihui, or Wang Anquan?"

He Lingxiu's frown deepened.

When cultivators traveled outside, especially to the unrestrained chaotic continent, concealing their true identities was indeed necessary, but what was this nonsense about unlucky names?

"Let me tell you, names are really important," Wang Li earnestly cautioned again.

"Alright," He Lingxiu said. "If it's truly necessary to state a name, I'll call you Daoist Wang Bihui."

"Senior Sister, why don't you escort us out? That way, we'll save time, and I can go and come back quickly," Wang Li said to Lü Shenliang, finally feeling relieved. He then handed the spirit stone pouch directly into her hand.

Lü Shenliang was extremely decisive. A dark golden sword light appeared on the ground beneath the three of them and then accelerated madly, flying away at high speed.

He Lingxiu's tightly furrowed brow never relaxed.

She had ridden in quite a few flying artifacts, but a cultivator like Lü Shenliang, who controlled a flying artifact in such a heart-stopping manner, so violently that she didn't care about the lives of others on the artifact, was something she had never seen before.

Watching the massive gusts of wind, like mountains, that slammed towards them, often missing by a hair's breadth, she struggled to steady herself and couldn't help but think that a cultivator like Lü Shenliang would be quite accustomed to and adept at handling such situations in a chaotic battlefield.

It was no wonder that such cultivators could return alive so many times from the chaotic continent.

"Then what about the cultivator you're with?" Lü Shenliang asked after escorting Wang Li and He Lingxiu outside the Profound Heaven Sect's territory on her sword. She saw a streak of cyan light suspended quietly in the high-altitude clouds.

"I arranged for them to wait here to pick us up," He Lingxiu nodded.

"Then be careful."

Lü Shenliang glanced at Wang Li and then withdrew her sword light, letting Wang Li and He Lingxiu land.

She turned to leave, but then remembered something important and said to Wang Li, "Since you're going to the Seven Treasures Ancient Domain, take a look at Old Ancestor Tong Hui's artifact refining methods, and bring back some artifact refining spiritual materials."

"Okay, Senior Sister. Please go back and cultivate with peace of mind. I, Wang Bihui, will return soon," Wang Li called out loudly in farewell.

Just as Lü Shenliang's sword light left, the cyan light in the sky descended. It wasn't a cultivator's flying artifact, but a large, entirely green bird.

The green bird's feathers shimmered like jade, and spiritual energy rippled around it. It didn't feel like a strange beast, but rather like a cultivator practicing some orthodox immortal sect method.

Wang Li had initially thought it was someone piloting a flying artifact. Seeing that this green strange bird had even managed to deceive Lü Shenliang's senses, he was even more astonished. But in the next moment, he saw the bird's eyes constantly shifting between bright yellow and fiery red, and a peculiar halo seemed to naturally form around its pupils. He immediately realized, "Is this a Jizhi Azure Bird?"

" at the Scorched Wood Market, as long as you have enough spirit sand, let alone a Jizhi Azure Bird, you can even buy a Chi Star Beast. What's so strange about it?" He Lingxiu moved her feet and leaped onto the bird's back. Her gaze then fell on Wang Li's bare feet. "As for you, are you going to the Seven Treasures Ancient Domain with bare feet like this?"

Wang Li hesitated slightly. "It doesn't matter. My feet don't stink anyway."