As Tan Lin spoke, he casually pinched several tea leaves from the pile and placed them into the pot, which had long since gone cold.
Tap...
Then, with a point of his finger, a stream of Divine Liquid shimmering with faint golden radiance, brimming with immense vitality and spirituality, emerged from thin air and poured into the pot.
This was precisely the Divine Liquid obtained from Lingbao Heavenly Venerable's Sea of Bitterness on the Forbidden Ancient Road. After he had purged its baleful aura, its value was immeasurable to cultivators below the Quasi-Emperor realm!
Even Quasi-Emperors would benefit greatly upon drinking and refining it for the first time.
Splash...
The Divine Liquid met the Enlightenment Tea Leaves and was brewed over the fire.
In an instant, a rich tea fragrance suffused with Dao charm spread through the air, refreshing the mind and clearing the Dao Heart.
Chi Yao and Chi Xuan watched Tan Lin's smooth, effortless movements.
Then they looked at the dozen or twenty jin of Enlightenment Tea Leaves on the table—enough to make the vast majority of powers in the world outside the Restricted Areas green with envy—and were momentarily speechless.
Yet the distance and unfamiliarity that had silently arisen between the three of them over the past several centuries seemed to have faded considerably because of Tan Lin's simple, natural gesture.
Chi Yao took a deep breath, silently suppressing the turbulent thoughts in her heart before sitting back down on the stone stool.
Her bearing was incomparably elegant, carrying an indescribable charm, but her faintly trembling fingertips exposed the unrest in her heart.
She softly said:
"Senior Brother... when did you return to the Big Dipper? Why did you suddenly come here?"
At the side, Chi Xuan also silently sat down, but her gaze remained fixed on