"Rather than rushing off to the Martial Hall to meet the various lords, why not return first to straighten our clothes and caps, rest up a little, and go after we've gathered our spirits?"
Chen Guangwu came to Li Chengfeng's side and spoke to him with great warmth:
"That way, even if Hall Master Zhou of the Martial Hall wants us to leave for Shuiyang Prefecture at once, we'll be more at ease. It would save us from going there with our attire in disarray and losing face."
"What do you think, Brother Chengfeng?"
As Chen Guangwu spoke, he circulated his lightness skill. His figure flitted like a bird, traveling shoulder to shoulder with Li Chengfeng over the leaves of the forest canopy, his face brimming with smiles.
Chen Guangwu had no choice but to beam.
He had initially taken a liking to Li Chengfeng and Zhao Lie's potential and deliberately befriended them through Zheng Pandao.
His original calculation had been that, at worst, he would not lose out; if he could reap benefits over the next five or even ten years, that would be a profit.
If, after ten years, this investment in their friendship could earn him resources sufficient to break through a major realm, that would be an enormous windfall.
Yet he had never expected that just after befriending Li Chengfeng, he would gain such a precious opportunity to hunt Exotic Beasts outside the Winter Hunt.
And with two such reliable experts of equal standing joining forces to hunt Exotic Beasts, the harvest from this journey had become so abundant!
As a Channel-Opening Realm martial artist this year, Zhao Lie had naturally participated in the Winter Hunt before, just as Zheng Pandao had. He knew full well that searching for Exotic Beasts during the Winter Hunt and