At that moment, Ning Fa revealed a strange look in his eyes. He deliberately stepped closer to Wen Hui and said with a smile, "Senior Sister Wen, you were assigned to the Spirit Embroidery Hall. How are things there?"
Wen Hui glanced at Ning Fa with her clear black-and-white eyes and smiled sweetly. "I'm doing quite well there.
It's just that the spirit embroidery techniques I had mastered before were too shallow. They aren't of much use in the Spirit Embroidery Hall, so I have to learn everything anew."
Ning Fa nodded.
Yet his right hand was secretly gripping a thumb-sized gray stone.
Ning Fa could distinctly sense a faint disturbance coming from the gray stone, only for it to vanish again moments later.
That faint disturbance had arisen precisely because he had approached the girl.
And that was exactly why Ning Fa had become interested in her.
This little gray stone had no simple origin. Back then, it had been given to him by Zhuo Li, the guardian spirit beast of the Profound Fire Sect. It had been left behind by the Profound Fire Sect's founding ancestor—the Spirit Transformation Cultivator Profound Fire Heavenly Monarch—and was also the Profound Fire Sect's Sacred Stone.
Back then, Ning Fa had obtained the complete cultivation method for the Five Extremes True Flame Art from Zhuo Li. Zhuo Li had even left its physical body for Blue Lightning to refine and absorb, allowing it to advance greatly. There had even been a damaged imitation of a spirit treasure.
What it had asked in return was that if Ning Fa ever came to the Nine Dragons Sea Cultivation World, he would deliver this Sacred Stone to the Profound Fire Sect's main sect.
Ning Fa had not forgotten this matter.
After he had gained a firm