Seeing Wei Zhong depart into the distance, Rong Ju found Shopkeeper Ruan appearing at her side.
"Grandmother is here?"
Ruan Liuzhen tapped Rong Ju on the forehead. "Little Rong came along, so how could I not come and take a look?"
She then looked in the direction Wei Zhong had left and murmured, "But this little fellow has quite a few tricks. To instantly kill a cultivator of the same rank so swiftly, and to face three people without showing the slightest fear... He must still have several trump cards in reserve and has yet to go all out.
"Even if you had not come, Little Rong, there was a high chance that he could have escaped."
"If what Grandmother says is true, then Fellow Daoist Chu is not only talented at brewing wine, but also quite capable in combat?"
Ruan Liuzhen nodded, then shook her head. "He surpasses ordinary rogue cultivators, but he is still no match for the outstanding disciples of the major powers."
"Then, Grandmother..."
Rong Ju asked somewhat cautiously.
What she received, however, was Ruan Liuzhen's firm response. "No. I said that I would only act after he brews one of those two kinds of second-rank spirit wine, or if he is driven into a dead end. Such a minor bit of fighting skill is not enough to move this old woman."
After saying that, she flicked her wide sleeve, wrapped Rong Ju within it, and vanished from the spot.
Wei Zhong reclined half-lying within the Azure Boat, sipping spirit wine as he recalled the spying gaze he had detected during the battle.
That was a Core Formation cultivator, most likely Shopkeeper Ruan from Cloud Gathering Commerce. She followed Rong Ju here. It seems Shan Qin's maid is no ordinary person either.
*It was my first