"Got used to it?"
"Um..."
"Looks like it has some other meaning."
Lin Xuanxuan did not press further. Instead, she sternly instructed, "Soak for another two minutes, then take that red pill I gave you earlier. Once you've digested its medicinal power, you can come out."
"Mm." Zhang Yunlu nodded gently.
The hazy steam, mingled with the fragrance of spiritual herbs, made Lin Xuanxuan's little face appear somewhat blurred.
Standing on tiptoe, she was only half a head taller than the bath barrel.
Her immature features made it hard to imagine that she was actually an all-round alchemist proficient in medicine, pill refinement, spiritual plant cultivation, and pill development.
Nor had she neglected her cultivation. Though only just past nineteen, she had already reached the late Golden Core stage.
As for her divine abilities and combat strength...
The fact that she could participate in the Immortal Sect Grand Competition was proof enough.
They're all so amazing... Zhang Yunlu could not help but marvel inwardly.
Back when she was in Mystic Sword City, the world around her had been only so large, and her notion of "genius" had been equally limited.
Not until that sudden encounter...
It was as though she had abruptly stumbled into an utterly unfamiliar world.
Over the past two years, she had suddenly seen far too many people younger and more outstanding than herself.
Not to mention Senior Sister, who led everyone else—there were Xuanxuan, Xiao Ruo, and the Sword Sect fellow disciples she had encountered in this selection tournament...
And those were only the ones she knew about.
Among the Seven Great Immortal Sects, among the hundreds of millions of the Human Race, just how many favored children of Heaven had risen above the rest? The very thought made her feel pressured.
The more she learned,