"Junior Brother?"
"Junior Brother!"
Qian Fang carefully gave Li Ye a push. The moment he saw the lotus here suddenly burst apart, he had rushed over at once, only to find Junior Brother Li lying here, his fate unknown.
His heart instantly leaped into his throat.
Thankfully, after two pushes, Li Ye slowly came to.
Li Ye sat up and could not help stretching lazily. Only then did he notice Qian Fang's relieved expression, and he asked curiously:
"Just now, my master, Su Xing Zhenren, took me to the Myriad Gods Shrine..."
"What!?" Qian Fang looked as though he had seen an immortal. "Su Xing Zhenren? The Myriad Gods Shrine?"
He scrutinized Li Ye from head to toe for a long while, then spotted a jade pendant on the latter's Daoist robe. After staring at it for several moments, he said, "This... Not long after I gave you what you wanted and your spirit pet, this place split open.
"I came over immediately afterward.
"In just those few breaths, you had already become Su Xing Zhenren's disciple and even made a trip to the Myriad Gods Shrine?"
A few breaths' time?
Could it have been some great divine ability of a Nascent Soul Cultivator?
Li Ye did not dwell on it, and even deliberately brushed the matter aside.
"Yep."
He was in an excellent mood. He even picked up the jade pendant and gave it a shake, saying brightly, "Look, it's a freshly minted jade pendant. What do you think?"
"...Of course I know that's an inner sect disciple's jade token!"
Qian Fang took a deep breath. Knowing that Li Ye was avoiding the subject, he asked no more.
He merely waved a hand. "Fine, fine. Now I can finally call you Junior Brother openly and properly."
"Then all the