After thinking it over, Xu Changqing took out a Communication Talisman from his Square-Inch Ring, infused it with spiritual power, and waited for the other party to answer.
Spiritual light began to flicker, then after a while, it lit up completely.
"Sixth Junior Brother, do you need something?"
"I have something I'd like to trouble Second Senior Brother with."
"We're fellow disciples. Go ahead."
"I have a friend preparing to break through to the Golden Core Realm, but toxins have accumulated in his body. He needs a stalk of Azure Nethergrass to purge them. I heard you have some growing in your Spirit Fields?"
"Azure Nethergrass... Come to Azurewood Peak. Let's talk face-to-face."
"Thank you, Second Senior Brother!"
Zhou Yan was rather surprised that Xu Changqing had suddenly come to ask him for a stalk of Azure Nethergrass.
Their relationship appeared harmonious on the surface, but in truth, an invisible crack lay between them.
The main reason was that something had happened to his Dao companion's mother, and that matter happened to have a slight connection to his Sixth Junior Brother.
As fellow disciples, they saw each other often enough that they naturally could not simply fall out.
But returning to how things had been before was not very realistic either.
After putting away the Communication Talisman, Xu Changqing set off for Azurewood Peak.
When he arrived, he found that nothing had changed from before.
The only difference was that quite a few people were gone.
Everyone connected to Su Qingyao and Ji Mingxuan had been dealt with by the Immortal Sect.
Thus, the atmosphere throughout Azurewood Peak was now exceedingly strange.
In the past, they would exchange greetings whenever they met.
Now, they guarded against one another as if against thieves, becoming especially wary whenever they crossed