"Say, Palace Master, couldn't you use the front entrance when you come back? Did you have to give us a fright?"
The moment Xiao Lin appeared, Ji Li's helpless voice rang out beside his ear.
"Exactly, Palace Master. I almost attacked you just now. If that had happened, you couldn't blame me for raising a hand against my superior!"
Zuo He, the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace's grand elder, also sounded a little aggrieved.
Just moments earlier, Ji Li and Zuo He had been discussing sect affairs. Who could have expected spatial ripples to suddenly appear in the hall before them?
How could that not have startled them?
At first, they had thought some mysterious expert had infiltrated the place!
Fortunately, the instant the spatial passage opened, they sensed Xiao Lin's aura and held back from attacking.
Otherwise, they really would have raised a hand against their superior!
Meanwhile, after Xiao Lin appeared, Xiao Li, Xue Lan, and Qing Lin filed out of the spatial passage as well.
The three were now looking around curiously.
For the moment, Xiao Lin paid them no attention and instead looked at Ji Li and Zuo He ahead of him.
Clearly, as the two highest-ranking members of the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace aside from Xiao Lin, they must have been discussing business.
"Hahaha, I'll be more careful next time!"
Laughing it off, Xiao Lin walked over to them.
Both men merely rolled their eyes at his explanation.
They didn't believe their palace master's so-called promise of "next time"!
Incidentally, before entering the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace, Xiao Lin had already altered his original appearance.
He was Lin Xiao again now!
(From now on, I won't specifically mention this sort of thing, lest anyone accuse me of padding the word count.)
Although Xiao Li, Xue Lan,