Just then.
A soft sigh came from the Flying Boat as it sped through the nine heavens.
"Ah..."
After letting out a long sigh, Venerable Guanping, who sat cross-legged opposite Demon Venerable Xiaotian, lifted the wine cup before him and took a light sip before saying:
"My old friend, do you think I am making a mountain out of a molehill?"
At those words.
The faintly smiling Demon Venerable Xiaotian had a flicker of suspicion pass through the depths of his eyes, but he merely gave a noncommittal chuckle.
"A little!"
"But it is only a trifling matter, something easily done along the way.
Hardly worth mentioning."
Seeing this.
Venerable Guanping regarded Demon Venerable Xiaotian with deep eyes, then shook his head slightly.
"I will not hide it from you!
For that Nascent Soul junior to make me ask my old friend to intervene, there must naturally be something unusual about him."
"By my estimation, that junior has most likely mastered a concealment divine ability!"
"Even when I employed a secret technique, I failed to glimpse the slightest flaw."
At this point.
Venerable Guanping paused before continuing:
"Of course!"
"If you can help me find that junior, this humble Daoist will certainly compensate you afterward."
"What do you say, Fellow Daoist?"
However.
Though these words sounded sincere and heartfelt, Venerable Guanping had not told the whole truth.
Because.
Venerable Guanping knew that without giving the other party a reasonable explanation—
once that junior was captured, whose hands he would fall into would be hard to say.
Moreover, Venerable Guanping's deduction was not wrong.
He did not believe that the junior he had encountered in the Thunder Abyss forbidden region previously had not cultivated some concealment divine ability in his true body.
After all, once Venerable Guanping emerged from the Thunder