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He knew her and Xie Xiuji! Could he be some disciple from Medicine Peak? Dressed like that, had his pill furnace exploded while he was refining pills just now?

Song Zhizhi felt a little sympathetic. Just as she was about to speak, Xie Xiuji beside her said, "Meng Ping, why are you in such a hurry? Is something urgent happening?"

"Hm?" This man was Meng Ping?

Song Zhizhi looked him up and down several times before realizing that this dark-skinned young man was actually Meng Ping from Main Peak.

"Meng Ping, how did you become so dark?" In her memory, Meng Ping should have been a fair, clean-looking young man. Why did he look as though he had spent a week at the seaside without sunscreen?

Meng Ping looked at Song Zhizhi, nearly unable to stop tears from streaming down his face. But he quickly held them back. He cast a Cleansing Spell and returned to his fair, clean appearance, then looked at Song Zhizhi and said, "Martial Aunt Song, please come with me to Main Peak."

After two months apart, the greenery on Main Peak was still lush and thriving...

Hm?

Song Zhizhi stopped before Main Peak's main hall. "I remember there used to be a row of trees planted in front of the hall. Why are they all gone?"

Meng Ping said, "A month ago, the Sect Master was playing in the square with Junior Sister Jiujiu. Junior Sister Jiujiu accidentally burned that row of trees."

Song Zhizhi immediately felt the guilty unease of a child causing trouble at school while the teacher complained to her. She lowered her head. "Why have the paving stones in the square changed color?"

Meng Ping said, "The original paving stones were melted by Jiujiu's fire."

Song Zhizhi: ...

She hurriedly raised