Should Be?

"The Nine Provinces were somewhat different from what I had imagined."

As they flew along at an unhurried pace, Pang Huanyin suddenly spoke.

Lu Ye casually asked, "What did Palace Master imagine the Nine Provinces to be like?"

"I call you Senior Brother, yet you call me Palace Master. It feels rather distant." Rather than answering Lu Ye's question, Pang Huanyin concerned herself with something else. "How does Senior Brother address Junior Sister Hua?"

"By her given name," Lu Ye answered truthfully.

"Then why not try calling me that way too, Senior Brother?"

"Pang Huanyin?"

"You can drop the Pang..."

"Junior Sister!"

Pang Huanyin shook her head with a laugh and did not dwell on such trivialities. "Whatever Senior Brother prefers."

After pondering briefly, she said, "When I saw Senior Brother and the others' astonishing bearing before, I thought the Nine Provinces would be a vast land rich in resources, brimming with Spiritual Power and abundant in treasures. Yet now that I have truly arrived, I find it somewhat different."

"Disappointed?"

"How could that be?" Pang Huanyin said. "Compared to the environment we once lived in, the Nine Provinces are a land beyond our wildest dreams. Now that we have come here, we are too overjoyed to be disappointed. How could we dare to be disappointed? Generation after generation, the Dao Palace's predecessors charged forward one after another, all so that the Peerless Human Race could escape the Corpse Race's torment and have a stable place to live. That goal has now been achieved, and we have gained even more!"

After a pause, she continued, "I have some understanding of the Nine Provinces' vastness and wealth. Though I have yet to visit other places, this Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy... does not seem particularly dense. In such a cultivation environment,