"Dao Seed, I've brought the pills you asked for to heal the damage to your Divine Soul."
With that, Qi Zhentian opened his palm. He held a Jade Vial glowing with brilliant green light as carefully as though it were a priceless treasure.
“Good. Thank you for the effort, Grand Elder!”
Seeing that his Inner Sect Grand Elder had finally brought the pills, Cao Yuxiu offered those reassuring words without thinking.
He reached out and took the glowing Jade Vial from the Inner Sect Grand Elder's hand.
Then, under Qi Zhentian's bewildered gaze, he pulled out the stopper and swallowed every pill inside in one gulp.
"Dao Seed, what... what's going on?"
Qi Zhentian had not been there earlier. He had not seen the drop of sweat roll off Luo Yi's forehead and leave Cao Yuxiu gravely injured.
So when he saw the Dao Seed, a man known throughout the sect for keeping his promises, swallow the pills he had promised the handsome Green-Robed Youth, he was stunned.
"Ah, it's a long story. I'll tell you when we have time!"
Cao Yuxiu looked at the confusion written all over Qi Zhentian's face and let out a long sigh, but he had no intention of explaining further.
It was not that he begrudged cultivators from other sects a look at the Cultivation Technique hidden behind the Sacred Mountain.
Rather, he resented the Grand Elder for speaking so hesitantly and vaguely earlier, leaving him unprepared for the youth's strength.
That was why he had nearly lost his composure when he saw the youth's Divine Soul slip so easily into the Sacred Mountain.
Besides, before Luo Yi entered the Sacred Mountain, Cao Yuxiu had guessed that the young man might be talented. He had never imagined his talent would be this astonishing.
Judging