Ling Pengyun smiled and waved a hand.
"This is your own fortuitous opportunity, Clan Brother. There's no need to thank me."
"Don't mention that opportunity again, either, lest someone notice. After all, you and I aren't the only ones here."
Ling Pengxing's expression shifted as he immediately thought of the Ghost Immortal Lamp in his Sea of Consciousness.
"That was rash of me."
"By the way, Clan Brother, you've now studied the Ghost Immortal Sect's artifact-refining and spiritual plant legacies, so you've also formed a thread of karmic connection with the sect."
"Right now, you're near the Ghost Immortal Lamp, protected by the secret art Ghost Immortal Lamp Senior cast. But once you move farther away from him, if the cultivators of the Extreme Cold Immortal Sect or the Xuanyuan Royal Clan investigate the Ghost Immortal Sect's karma again, they're bound to detect your existence as well."
"To be safe, it would be best to sever that connection, lest it bring disaster."
After finishing with a hint of apology, Ling Pengxing offered this suggestion.
A measure of solemnity rose on Ling Pengyun's face. He nodded lightly and replied.
"You have a point. Is Ghost Immortal Lamp Senior available?"
Ling Pengxing said, "I'll ask."
He then directed his Divine Sense into the motionless Ghost Immortal Lamp in his Sea of Consciousness.
A short while later, the Ghost Immortal Lamp trembled, flew out of his Sea of Consciousness on its own, and came to a stop before Ling Pengyun.
Yet even after quite some time, the Ghost Immortal Lamp still took no action.
Instead, a soft sound of surprise came from within it.
"Strange. How has this man studied our sect's artifact-refining and spiritual plant legacies without forming the slightest karmic connection with our sect in the river of karma?"
Before long,