"Many thanks, Ancestral Master."
Great joy appeared on Zheng Xuan's face, her eyes filled with gratitude. Gathering her robes, she bowed deeply to Lin Xuan.
Back then, when she had fallen into Fire Cloud Venerable's hands, she had suffered no small amount. If not for Lin Xuan saving her, at this very moment, who knew whose Cauldron she would have become? Her end would certainly have been too horrible to bear.
Just thinking about it filled her with lingering fear.
Though among cultivators, Zheng Xuan could be counted as a relatively kindhearted person, even honest people had tempers.
This woman hated Fire Cloud Venerable to the bone. It was only that the gap between the two sides lay there in plain sight. Zheng Xuan was merely at Lihe, while Fire Cloud Venerable was a late-stage Dongxuan cultivator. The difference between the two simply could not be spoken of in the same breath. Although Zheng Xuan hated him to the extreme, her strength was insufficient, and there was nothing she could do.
Now that she heard Lin Xuan say this, her heart was naturally grateful to him to the utmost.
Ancestral Master was truly too good. Not only had he rescued her from fire and water, he was even going to avenge her.
Lin Xuan smiled without speaking. He did indeed have the same thoughts Zheng Xuan imagined. Yue'er's disciple was no different from one of his own sect members, and he had always been fiercely protective of his own. If he had not known, then that would have been that, but since he knew she had been bullied, how could Lin Xuan not stand up for her?
However, this was only one reason.
There was another reason, and it lay in those fifty million mid-grade Spirit Stones.
How could Lin