Chapter 1374: Deliberating on Merit and Punishment
After leaving the Pure Profound Dao Palace, Nie Xinying took out the talisman Zhang Yu had given her and summoned a flying carriage. Riding it for a little over two Xia-hours, she arrived at a certain hall, where she met her teacher Deng Jing, who had only recently come to the Upper Layer.
Seeing that Nie Xinying's cultivation had improved enormously since before, Deng Jing nodded and said, "As expected of Deng's disciple. So long as she is given an opportunity, her cultivation can soar by leaps and bounds."
Nie Xinying blinked. "Teacher, are you praising your disciple?" Why did she feel that her teacher was praising himself instead?
Without the slightest embarrassment, Deng Jing smiled. "Good is good. Since it is good, why can't it be praised? Your teacher is not as hypocritical as certain people."
"Certain people?" Nie Xinying pondered this, then secretly smiled. With that one sentence, her teacher had praised himself once more. But she knew that this was Deng Jing's true temperament. Back on White Truth Mountain, however, the other two lineages had also been stationed there, so he had needed to display his authority and rarely acted this way.
After thinking for a moment, she raised her head and said, "Teacher, this time, your disciple was able to improve so much because Junior Brother Zhang helped me greatly. He even had Senior Ming Zhou take me around to visit and observe the surroundings."
Deng Jing's expression grew somewhat more serious. "As your teacher, I know that you and Zhang Tingzhi once shared the bond of fellow disciples, and he has kept that bond in mind. But now you are my disciple, and that must be discussed separately. Your teacher will repay Zhang Tingzhi's favor for you in