"Senior, have you heard of my junior sister?"
"Mm." Thinking of that slender, beautiful figure far away, of that tender, hundred-year promise, Lin Xuan could not say what he felt. There was a trace of joy, a trace of melancholy, and a trace of bewilderment...
"Senior, Senior."
"Oh!" Only then did Lin Xuan snap out of his daze. Ma Tianxiong found it somewhat strange, but how could he possibly guess at the sensual entanglement between him and Qin Yan? Nor did he dare ask more, and could only bury his doubts deep in his heart.
Lin Xuan cleared his throat. "Go on. Where were we? Mm, the Fire Spirit Sect was destroyed so swiftly, and it had something to do with Fairy in the Clouds."
"That's right!" When speaking of his sect's pride, Ma Tianxiong's brows lifted. "At that time, Junior Sister Qin was only at the great perfection of the Spirit Movement Stage. By the sect leader's order, she went to Stream Leap Ravine to gather a spiritual herb, and just happened to run into the Fire Spirit Sect acting against all righteousness, wantonly slaughtering fellow cultivators..."
Despite Ma Tianxiong's burly, rough-hewn build and his appearance as a coarse, bold man, he was quite gifted at storytelling. Lin Xuan had clearly experienced the events at Stream Leap Ravine personally, yet from his mouth, they still sounded soul-stirring and perilous.
A faint smile appeared at the corner of Lin Xuan's mouth. If this man did not become an immortal cultivator, he would have quite a future changing professions to storytelling.
"Junior Sister Qin used a Palm Lightning talisman to destroy a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator, but then she was targeted by the even more terrifying Fire Spirit Sect Leader..."
The first half of the story was more or less the