"Martial Brother Liao, please sit."
Lu Xuan, standing to the side, reached out in invitation with a smile that was not quite a smile.
After returning from Bai Li Jian Qing's place, he had received Shen Ye's Communication Talisman outside the talisman formation. Inside the talisman, Shen Ye informed him that some higher-ups in Sword Hall were displeased that he had obtained the Fourth Grade Sword Thousand-Kite Spirit Seed, but since the wood had already become a boat, he told him to rest assured while also being more cautious and prudent in the near future.
Once Lu Xuan learned all this, he immediately grew tense. Under the pretext of Spirit Fruit and Spirit Nectar, he invited over the two little Big Shots, the Mystic Sky White Luan and the White Jade Sky Supporting Ape, to help prop up the scene.
He had not expected a cultivator to come knocking so soon.
Lu Xuan smiled as he looked at Liao Yu Fang, whose expression had instantly turned nervous, then fetched Spirit Fruit and Spirit Nectar from inside the house and placed them before him.
"Many thanks, Junior Brother Lu."
Liao Yu Fang spoke in a slow, gentle tone.
"Are all those in the courtyard the spirit beast friends Junior Brother mentioned?"
He probed Lu Xuan.
He had grown up in the sect since childhood and had been promoted to Inner Sect Disciple nearly twenty years ago, so he understood the sect quite deeply. Naturally, that included these two spirit beasts.
Both beasts were descendants of the sect's Sect Guardian Spirit Beasts, possessing uniquely blessed bloodline talents. In the eyes of some Core Formation True Persons, they were like precious darlings, extremely doted on; there were even Foundation Establishment Cultivators specially assigned to raise and tend to them.
Although they were still