"Come here. Let your master smear some on your face too."
Xiao Yuanjun beckoned to Zhang Yuan as she spoke.
Suspecting nothing, Zhang Yuan brought his face close again.
With a giggle, Xiao Yuanjun reached out and smeared some onto Zhang Yuan, making his face as deathly pale as hers. She also gave him a gentle pinch in passing, a lesson for failing to respect his master.
Feeling the cold, silky touch of Xiao Yuanjun's slender, jade-like hand, Zhang Yuan raised his head, astonishment in his eyes. For a moment, he had the strange impression that she was teasing him flirtatiously.
What was Xiao Yuanjun trying to do?
Her affectionate gestures earlier were one thing-there had been reasons for them, after all-but now she seemed to be flirting with her disciple...
Zhang Yuan lowered his gaze toward Xiao Yuanjun, hoping to glean something from her expression. But under the concealment of [Severing Past and Present, Leaving or Staying], her face was deathly pale and utterly bloodless. How could he make out any subtle expressions?
Seeing this, Zhang Yuan could only give up helplessly. Surely he couldn't ask her outright.
Putting those thoughts aside, Zhang Yuan composed himself and spread [Great Grotto Yin-Scenery Immortal Domain] over their surroundings, restricting its range to a thousand-meter radius.
Zhang Yuan called Xiao Yuanjun aboard the central Immortal Palace. Seated inside, he calculated where mysterious yin death qi had manifested, then immediately drove the mountain within his Dao Domain, [Great Grotto Yin-Scenery Immortal Domain], rampaging across the Ya Kingdom.
The place where mysterious yin death qi had manifested was precisely the provincial city in the Ya Kingdom where he had previously encountered the old monk Jingjue-Clear River City.
At the time, Clear Harmony City had been reduced to ruins, its people plunged into misery. Yet