After listening to Zhou Lingyan's Sound Transmission Talisman, Li Ping could not help raising an eyebrow.
Over the past year, through deliberate cultivation,
his relationship with this female Core Formation cultivator of the Acacia Sect had become quite close. Word of their relationship had even spread across Donghua Mountain.
Song Yushu had warned him several times when asking him to refine pills, but seeing that his advice fell on deaf ears, he stopped trying.
As for the other Core Formation cultivators, they were all waiting to see him make a fool of himself.
How deep did the waters run with a temptress from the Acacia Sect?
This newly arrived country bumpkin of a rogue cultivator actually had designs on her. Did he really think he could handle her?
She would probably drain his entire fortune and leave him saddled with a heap of debts and favors owed.
What a waste of a third-tier pill refiner.
Before long, he would likely be borrowing spirit stones everywhere.
Li Ping cheerfully ushered Zhou Lingyan into the courtyard. Once they had taken their seats, he asked curiously, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, what brings you to see me?"
"Can't I visit you unless I need something?" Zhou Lingyan rolled her eyes at him before slowly explaining the matter.
Only after listening to her explanation did Li Ping understand.
It turned out that Zhou Lingyan had come to see him about a recent piece of business involving the Acacia Sect.
The Acacia Sect had received a large batch of spirit herbs as tribute from its subordinate sects. Originally, it had planned to hand all these herbs over to its own pill refiners to make into pills.
But Zhou Lingyan, one of its elders, had objected. Her reason was that the sect's pill refiners had far too