The Terrifying Lin Zixue

Li Chengjie looked at that face, and his pupils contracted slightly.

Countless scenes flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern—Qingshi Market, the young woman standing before Li's Pill Pavilion, showing him goodwill.

Falling Cloud City, the young woman who had helped him out at the city gate and led him into Flowing Cloud Pill Pavilion.

Inside Primordial Beginning Hall, when everyone had still been in the Qi Refining stage, the young woman who had stood shoulder to shoulder with Wang Zhen and smiled at him.

Lin Zixue.

"Junior Sister Lin?" Li Chengjie blurted, a trace of uncertainty in his voice.

The woman hovered in the air. Hearing this, the corner of her mouth curved into a faint smile.

That smile was gentle, as if it were back then. But in the depths of her eyes lay an ice-cold abyss.

"Time really passes quickly." She spoke, her voice clear and crisp, no different from back then. "Back then, when I bought the Foundation Establishment Pill from Senior Brother, I still owed you twenty thousand spirit stones. It feels like that was only yesterday."

Li Chengjie fell silent. The Foundation Establishment Pill—how many years ago had that been?

At that time, he had only just established his foundation, while Lin Zixue was stuck at Qi Refining Great Perfection and had exhausted everything she had to gather spirit stones and come beg him.

For one Foundation Establishment Pill, he had charged twenty thousand spirit stones less than the market price, all on account of Lin Zixue.

As for that difference of twenty thousand spirit stones, he had never thought of asking for it back. Now that Lin Zixue brought it up, she was clearly reminding him of the favor from back then.

"Junior Sister Lin," Li Chengjie said, "why are you here?"