At that moment, Qu Jianlei's mindset finally changed.
Willing or not, he had to face a fact: he had already grown strong, and his way of doing things had to change too!
"Lingyun will handle it!" a voice rang out not far away. It was the Ascetic, appearing once more.
Baiqiao's avatar said mildly, "We would have handled it before as well, but since you explained its importance, the extent of our involvement is naturally different!"
"That's how it should be," True Venerable Qingkong said with a deeply moved nod. "Wouldn't it have been better to explain sooner?"
The Grand Protector had always had some complaints about True Venerable Qu's excessive caution. He had already reached this cultivation level—why was he still acting so furtively?
Fortunately, he had not said it outright before, or the other party definitely would have snapped back at him.
At this moment, however, Qu Jianlei had already begun adjusting his mindset. Hearing this, he nodded. "Then I'll have to trouble Senior Baiqiao!"
"He's changed!" The first one to react was actually Song Yue'er!
Strictly speaking, she had not dealt with Qu Jianlei for long, but when it came to female True Venerables, she was the first.
And many times, a woman's attentiveness truly was not something men could compare to.
She looked at Han Li, intense curiosity on her face. "What exactly did you two... do to him?"
"He's growing," Xiaoyou replied expressionlessly.
And to be fair, she really could explain a thing or two. "At whatever level of cultivation one reaches, one does the things appropriate to that level."
"When one is insignificant, one can bury one's head and cultivate bitterly. But once one's weight is great enough, continuing to hide and conceal everything looks, to others, like ulterior motives!"
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