Liu Fanyue merely looked quietly in Zhou Yan's direction, saying nothing.
There was no telling whether she could see the fear of her lurking in Zhou Yan's eyes.
But she did not care.
She did not care what others thought of her.
"Senior Brother, have you heard about the sect's minor tournament in three days?"
Expressionless, Liu Fanyue shifted her gaze away from Zhou Yan before speaking.
"...Yes."
Zhou Yan nodded solemnly.
As he was now, he found it difficult to act as her "senior brother" in Liu Fanyue's presence.
Still, if they were truly to speak of the bond between fellow disciples, there was indeed little affection to speak of between Zhou Yan and Liu Fanyue.
After all, their master, Shen Yunshen, the young sect master of the Bright Azure Sect, had barely paid any attention over the past two years to the two disciples he had taken in at Willow River Village.
If Shen Yunshen wished, he could sever his master-disciple relationship with Zhou Yan and Liu Fanyue at any time.
But he had not.
That did not mean he was particularly fond of these two disciples. In fact, quite the opposite.
Shen Yunshen did not care in the slightest.
Shen Yunshen was only in his early twenties, yet his cultivation had already reached the late stage of the qi condensation realm. He could even be said to have a chance of breaking through to the martial spring realm before thirty.
Perhaps, in a cultivation world that had developed for tens of millions of years, an immortal cultivator who only broke through to the martial spring realm after twenty in a domain as rich in spiritual energy as the Immortal Origin Land could only be considered mediocre in talent.
But that was not the case now.
The Immortal