Worry

"Miss, miss! Have you heard? It's being widely rumored outside that Immortal Elder Shen has agreed to a challenge from that prodigy of the Immortal Sect, Immortal Elder Xuan Tianxing!"

Inside the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, on the third floor, Zhou Cuirong, who had come to hand over her work, spoke to Ziyan, who was languidly reclining in the chair behind a rosewood desk.

"Oh?"

Ziyan, who had been resting with her eyes closed, slowly opened her phoenix eyes, naturally touched with a hint of seductive charm.

A flicker of amusement passed through her shifting gaze.

She narrowed her eyes slightly, her voice carrying the languor of someone just awakened and a trace of interest that was hard to detect.

"You mean that Shen Changchuan?"

"Yes, yes, that's the very Immortal Elder Shen Changchuan who came to our Myriad Treasures Pavilion to buy Pure Origin Clarity-Seeking Pills!"

Zhou Cuirong nodded repeatedly.

"Speaking of which, I heard that Xuan Tianxing is one of the foremost prodigies among the Jade Clarity Immortal Sect's inner disciples. He's an unimaginably important figure!"

"I also heard that Xuan Tianxing was the one who initiated this challenge. I wonder why. Isn't this just bullying?"

Zhou Cuirong's voice could not help but carry several more shades of worry, faintly tinged with indignation on Shen Changchuan's behalf.

She was still deeply grateful to Shen Changchuan.

It was precisely because Shen Changchuan had spent a huge sum of Spirit Stones on Pure Origin Clarity-Seeking Pills that she had not only received a substantial Spirit Stone bonus, but had also caught the pavilion master's eye through that transaction and been swiftly promoted to serve at the pavilion master's side.

It could be called soaring to the heavens in a single step!

Although that was also partly because she had conscientiously introduced