"Yes, Master!"
Yunxi answered with a smile.
The two swiftly completed the handover. Yunxi returned her master's Identity Jade Token, then left the "Honeycomb" wearing her master's face for the last time. Without wasting a moment, she headed to the back mountain to enter seclusion.
No sooner had Venerable Yuling taken his seat than the "Honeycomb" behind him began another round of rearrangement. The room was soon piled full of new jade slips again, and Yuling could only resign himself to splitting off his divine sense to examine them.
Meanwhile, Old Ancestor Hao Yi, whom Yuling had been grumbling about for setting him up, was visiting the Famous Sword Sect. This time, the one meeting her was the Famous Sword Sect's reclusive old-generation Spirit Transformation Old Ancestor. His cultivation stood at the peak of the late Spirit Transformation stage, and he had long suppressed it rather than undergo Minor Ascension, all so he could guard the sect for a few more years.
Venerable Mingjia was tall and lean, dressed in a dark navy dharma robe. His features were refined, and even his voice carried a scholarly air.
"What wind has blown Senior Haoyi to the Famous Sword Sect today?"
Haoyi shot Mingjia an irritated glare. Did he think she had not heard the jab at her age? Raising a hand to smooth her lovely hair, she said,
"This old woman truly does not visit the Three Treasures Hall without cause. Take a look at what the Haoran Sect has uncovered before you make sarcastic remarks!"
With a sweep of her sleeve, she flung a jade slip straight at Venerable Mingjia's face. He casually caught it with one hand, the smile on his face unchanged. He even pushed a cup of Spirit Tea toward Venerable Haoyi before sending his divine sense