At the North Cold Alliance's outpost.
"Fellow Daoist Lin, what a rare visitor. It has been some time since you last came."
The Peacock Princess slowly brewed tea with a smile, then raised her hand, sending a cup flying toward him. Lin Chang'an nodded politely and accepted it.
"After the Cloudsea Chamber of Commerce's trading fair, I went into seclusion. I only just emerged."
Lin Chang'an took a small sip of spirit tea and smiled. The Peacock Princess's hospitality was hard to beat—even her spirit tea was of the finest supreme grade.
The Peacock Princess merely smiled casually, thinking nothing of it.
Lin Chang'an was now a Fifth-Rank Upper-Grade Formation Master. Although his cultivation was still somewhat lacking at mid-stage Spirit Transformation, his combat strength was no worse than that of an ordinary Spirit Transformation Late Stage cultivator.
His cultivation speed had exceeded her expectations, but that was all.
The cultivation world never lacked people who soared into the heavens on the wings of a fortuitous encounter.
Lin Chang'an's progress was still far from such a meteoric rise.
"Then have you come because you gained some new insights into Buddhist teachings, Fellow Daoist Lin?"
Hearing this, Lin Chang'an gave an awkward, quiet cough. Naturally, he knew that his habit of learning profound Buddhist teachings elsewhere and immediately bringing them here would eventually be uncovered.
But with something like this, whoever brought it first could claim the credit.
The Peacock Princess did not mind either. After all, whoever delivered what she wanted would receive an exchange of equal value.
How they had acquired it was none of her concern.
Besides, how many things in the cultivation world were clean? Which were not drenched in blood?
"The Buddhist Dao is profound. How could an ordinary man like me comprehend it so quickly?