Elsewhere.
It was now just after dusk!
In Pei Jingqiu's field of vision, the shadow of the Dao Alliance Mountain Gate had already begun to emerge.
"I hope I'm not too late!"
After murmuring softly, she darted forward and arrived before the most dilapidated-looking thatched hut at the very bottom.
Then she took out the formation restriction Wei Beichen had given her in advance and made sure to seal off the entire area around the hut.
Only then did she hurry to the door, knock softly three times, and ask in a low voice, "Are you home? I have something important to ask!"
The instant she knocked, the wooden door slowly swung open.
Clearly, the woman inside had long expected someone to come questioning her.
"What does Senior Pei wish to ask? Please, go ahead!"
Xue Bingxuan stood calmly in the doorway, making no move to invite her visitor inside for a chat.
At her words, Pei Jingqiu fixed her gaze on that beautiful, somewhat aloof face. The light in her eyes grew ever colder.
"I came here on Senior Brother Beichen's orders to ask you about something!"
At that, Xue Bingxuan's eyes narrowed, and her left hand had, at some point, quietly come to rest on the sword at her waist.
With her current cultivation and strength, which barely reached the Heavenly Human Realm, she couldn't imagine how she might have attracted the attention of a cultivator at the Void Refinement Pinnacle.
Especially since it had been nearly a year since she joined the Dao Alliance under Master, and she had barely spent any time with these senior brothers and sisters from the Dao Alliance.
There was no reason for the other woman to go so far as to set up a Magic Array just to make things difficult