As he listened to the beautiful female cultivator before him, Qin Fengming kept nodding inwardly.
Although Lan Xue'er looked lovely and delicate, her words just now showed that she was no mere ornamental vase. She assessed matters clearly and responded with great precision.
No wonder Fairy Honglian had thought highly enough of her to take her as a disciple.
In truth, although Lan Xue'er was somewhat gentle by nature, she was by no means as fragile as she appeared. Though she cultivated under Fairy Honglian, she possessed an exceptionally resilient mind and rarely relied on her master's prestige. Her advancement to the Core Formation realm in such a short time had to do with her own circumstances, rather than Fairy Honglian's efforts.
Of course, if she actually invoked Fairy Honglian's name, the powerful cultivators of the Yuanfeng Empire's immortal cultivation world would all show her some courtesy, whether they were rogue cultivators or sect cultivators.
Rumors had long circulated in the Cultivation World that Fairy Honglian was fiercely protective of her own. Once, when one of her disciples was still a Core Formation cultivator, a demonic rogue cultivator at the mid Nascent Soul stage had taken a fancy to her and wanted to make her his concubine.
Despite knowing full well that she was Fairy Honglian's disciple, that rogue cultivator had forcibly abducted the Core Formation cultivator. What he had not expected was that the female cultivator had already sent a voice transmission talisman to notify one of her senior disciple sisters.
Knowing that she was no match for that old monster, the senior disciple sister had reported the matter to Fairy Honglian.
At the time, Fairy Honglian herself was only at the mid Nascent Soul stage. Upon hearing what had happened, she had used a secret technique to force