Shortly after returning, Su Yu paid a visit to Lan Xi and Lan Gong, the two sisters, bringing a bottle of high-grade Qi Refining Pills.
Before long, however, Su Yu emerged from their courtyard with a somewhat strange look on his face.
He always felt that the way the two sisters looked at each other was a little off.
In contrast, the way they looked at him was far more normal—courteous, yet carrying unfamiliarity and distance.
Over the next few days, while cultivating, Su Yu found opportunities to visit his other two neighboring households. The family of four seemed rather honest and simple-minded, while the Artificer in the next courtyard was a burly "uncle" nearing seventy, at the ninth layer of the Qi Refining Realm.
Yet both households seemed more or less unusual. The man in the family of four appeared inclined toward domestic violence.
As for the burly Artificer next door, he possessed an exceedingly fiery temper.
That day.
Su Yu spotted the neighbor rumored to have joined the True Hall of Moon Worship Immortal City, a High-grade Rank 1 Talisman Master, and took the initiative to pay him a visit.
"You just moved here? You're a high-grade Rank 1 alchemist?" Wu Zhigang was a middle-aged man under seven feet tall, somewhat short in stature, but fair-skinned and handsome. His expression, however, was rather sharp and mean, and he even had to look at people from the corner of his eye.
Wu Zhigang raised his head slightly, sizing Su Yu up and down through a forty-five-degree sideways glance. He carried the arrogant air of someone who thought himself superior, his brows faintly furrowed in doubt.
Su Yu simply looked far too young, no different from a teenager in his teens.
Su Yu smiled faintly. "I'm already over forty. I've