After finishing, Situ Jing immediately took out a long wooden box from her person, opened it, and presented it directly before Song Qingming.
Inside the wooden box lay a three-foot-long stalk of azure spirit bamboo, covered in a faint spiritual glow.
"This is... Level 4 Green Thunder Bamboo!"
Standing nearby, Huang Siyuan recognized the origins of the azure spirit bamboo in Situ Jing's hand at a glance and could not help crying out in surprise.
Song Qingming had likewise sensed that the azure spirit bamboo was no ordinary item. Upon hearing Huang Siyuan confirm it, a look of surprise also appeared on his face.
In the Cultivation World, spiritual items of Level 4 and above were already exceedingly rare, and the "Green Thunder Bamboo" in Situ Jing's hand was an exceptionally precious high-grade artifact-refining material.
Its value was likely no lower than the "Soul Nurturing Wood" Song Qingming and the others had found in the East Sea.
If it were taken to an Auction outside, it would fetch at least a hundred thousand Spirit Stones, enough to move even a Nascent Soul Cultivator like Song Qingming.
However, Song Qingming still did not know why she had come to find him.
Though tempted, he did not hastily accept the treasure she had offered. Instead, he looked at her seriously and asked:
"You came to find me—what exactly is it for? Tell me first."
At those words, Situ Jing's expression immediately darkened somewhat. Then she replied softly:
"After the sect was destroyed that day, this junior fled Lu State with the remaining disciples, originally hoping to find somewhere else to settle down.
"But over the past few months, this junior traveled through many places and still failed to find a suitable Spirit Mountain.
"Only then did I helplessly come to Crimson Cloud