After they had waited a quarter of an hour, an oval-faced woman in an indigo robe appeared in the hall.
She swept her gaze over the thirteen of them and cleared her throat. The chatter stopped at once, and everyone turned to look at her.
"My name is Su Jinyu. Master Zheng asked me to show you around."
"If you've rested enough, please follow me."
Fang Chuan immediately asked, "Senior Sister Su, what about our belongings?"
"You don't need to bring them. Leave them here."
With that, Su Jinyu turned and walked away.
The others hurried after her.
They walked four or five li from the hall. Su Jinyu was not exactly cold, but she was hardly warm either.
She answered questions about their studies, but let every attempt at small talk fall flat.
Fang Chuan questioned her the whole way. Then he turned to Lin Ziwu and complained under his breath that, after all that conversation, he knew only her name and when she had joined Bright Moon Medicine Hall. He had learned nothing about her background or family.
Zhao Xing had no questions of his own. He spent the walk observing Lü Qingyang—or rather, the man who had deliberately taken the name Pang Yuanzhi.
Triggered quests were hard to come by in the game, and people like Lü Qingyang were the most likely to offer them.
But from his previous experience playing a martial artist, Zhao Xing knew he would first have to raise Lü Qingyang's affection level to trigger his quest.
Lü Qingyang was a man of few words, though, and gave only lukewarm replies when Zhao Xing tried to chat. Seeing how unapproachable he was, Zhao Xing set the idea aside for now rather than make matters worse.
"We're here."
Su Jinyu stopped at the entrance