"I am Xiao Yuanjun, Dao Epithet [Perfect Self]."
Xiao Yuanjun had quite a favorable impression of Chen Xinqiao. She believed that someone as self-sacrificing as Chen Xinqiao surely could not be a bad person, so she treated her sincerely and promptly gave her name and Dao Epithet.
Chen Xinqiao knew that Zhang Yuan had a Master, but this was her first time meeting her. Her expression did not change, though the label above her head changed to [Hesitant].
She considered it for a while.
Chen Xinqiao rose and bowed. "Senior Xiao."
Since this was the Immortal Master's Master, even if her cultivation was currently lower than Chen Xinqiao's and their ages were not far apart, she plainly counted as an elder in terms of seniority. There was nothing wrong with addressing her as Senior.
"No need to be so polite," Xiao Yuanjun said with a smile.
Chen Xinqiao was surprisingly courteous, just rather expressionless. She was a block of ice like Cui Zhaowei-one glance was enough to tell she was no fun.
Chen Xinqiao sat back down and continued, "I took the Ren Water you sought today, Senior. However, my previous incarnation, True Person Qingxu, also left behind a strand of unclaimed Xin Metal as a fallback. Now that I have assumed my position, I naturally have no use for it. Please accept it as compensation."
The next moment, a streak of golden light suddenly emerged from somewhere beneath Dragon Creek City and swiftly landed in Chen Xinqiao's hand.
It was a bracelet strung with pale golden jewels, shimmering with golden light and radiating the conceptual image of five-aggregate Xin Metal. It was unmistakably a strand of Xin Metal.
As a fallback deliberately left behind by True Person Qingxu, this strand of Xin Metal certainly had not been chosen at