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Though the two had never formally been master and disciple, they were both women cultivators, and Guan Xinglan had once spent a period training under Divine Venerable Jun Zhaoying. A few years ago, she had surpassed a host of male cultivators and claimed the top spot on the Prodigies Ranking.

He had thought Guan Xinglan would come see what Junior Granduncle Wen Xu looked like.

"You mean Senior Sister Guan? She's been in seclusion for ages."

"She's about to break through again?" So he hadn't known. No wonder.

"Junior Brother Zheng, you shouldn't talk nonsense either. Watch out, or Senior Sister Guan will come after you with her blade when she leaves seclusion."

...He wasn't afraid. It wasn't as if she'd never chased him with that blade before. Zheng Jin dared say there wasn't a person at the table who hadn't had a taste of Guan Xinglan's blade. Even Zhi Lianshan had been chased down and struck a couple of times.

Steaming hot pots soon arrived at the tables. The Nascent Soul cultivators had one table, the Qi Refining cultivators another, and the Golden Core and Foundation Establishment cultivators attending the Five Sects Assembly sat at a large table. Bushi, a Foundation Establishment cultivator who wasn't competing, brazenly squeezed in at the Qi Refining table.

"You wouldn't turn this humble monk away, would you?"

Bushi could be rather insufferable, but there was no helping it: he was so good-looking that few people could bring themselves to refuse his smiling face. He happily sat down on Wen Xu's left and even considerately cooked some vegetables for him.

"You can eat Spirit Beast meat?"

Bushi looked puzzled. "Why wouldn't I? Buddhist Cultivators and the Buddhist Sect aren't quite the same thing. Besides, Bitter Crossing Temple kills living creatures too. Are you going