While Chu Youwei and Lin Xiaowan were dejected and despondent, Jun Ziya and Flame Sparrow, not far away, wore faintly pleased expressions beneath their veils.
"I didn't expect him to end up dying in that chaos after all." While Flame Sparrow secretly rejoiced, her eyes also held a trace of regret. "What a pity about all that Profound Qi he possessed."
Jun Ziya sighed softly. "Dead is fine too. Saves us from having to dwell on it."
Flame Sparrow froze.
Jun Ziya shot her a glare. "Dwelling on that final type of Profound Qi! Having this hope of a breakthrough cut off may not be a bad thing. At least it leaves us some peace and quiet, doesn't it?"
Flame Sparrow smiled sheepishly, inwardly lamenting how muddleheaded she had been. She had actually thought her Young Miss was dwelling on a man. Even if such a day truly came, she would never take a fancy to such an insignificant nobody.
Jun Ziya said thoughtfully, "Now that he is dead, the Source Extraction Array Disk must have been destroyed along with him in the spatial collapse. Without the emergence of those refining materials from the Sword Ruins, it is time to put the progress at West Sheep Mountain on the agenda."
Flame Sparrow nodded in acceptance of the order. She could already picture the many elders of the Jun Family looking at her Young Miss in a new light. With the impurity-removing formation that her Young Miss had comprehended and replicated, the mineral veins of West Sheep Mountain would surely be mined to perfection. Once released onto the market, the profits from the mining trade alone would equal several years of the Jun Family's income.
Yet Flame Sparrow still felt a faint unease lingering in her heart.
"Young Miss, do you