"Which friend is this? Since you came looking for me, why hide your face?" Zhao Li replied evenly after his companions had all left.
"In the alley five li behind you."
Following the other party's directions, Zhao Li came to a relatively secluded alley paved with blue bricks, where only two or three pedestrians were passing through.
"Brother, who are you? As far as I can recall, I don't know you." Zhao Li looked over the yellow-faced scholar in blue robes before her and searched through her memories, but she had no recollection of him.
"Whether you know me isn't important. What matters is that I know you. And running into an old acquaintance from Wangyue in a foreign land counts as fate, too. Are you staying temporarily as a guest of the Yuan family, or are you an outside family retainer?" Lu Xiaotian asked.
"What business is that of yours?" Zhao Li showed no special regard for him just because he came from Wangyue. "If there's nothing else, I'm leaving."
"Fine," Lu Xiaotian said. "Who was that palace-dressed woman in the carriage just now?"
"Why should I answer you? What's in it for me?" Zhao Li asked with a faint smile.
"I have a pot of spirit wine here. You can try a small sip and see how it works." Lu Xiaotian smiled indifferently and tossed Zhao Li a pot of Drunken Immortal Wine. He had gone to great trouble to obtain the recipe from Mo Wentian back then, and had started brewing it when he was at the Golden Core Early Stage. For Golden Core cultivators, it could restore their mana with remarkable speed.
Now that he had successfully formed his Nascent Soul, he had no use for it. Trading it to a Golden Core cultivator like Zhao