"Actually, Xiao Ya went to the Renlan Star Realm because of someone else, a woman named Zhang Hong!" the figure shimmering with five-colored spiritual light explained to Liu Xian'er. "That cultivator, Zhang Hong, was gravely wounded. Had I not intervened, she would probably have perished long ago!"
"Mm!" Liu Xian'er had harbored quite a few doubts about the shimmering figure's words, but this revelation genuinely surprised her. The figure knew so much about Xiao Ya and Senior Sister Zhang Hong that it hardly sounded like a fabrication. She quickly nodded, many of her earlier doubts fading...
"However! Although I could heal Zhang Hong's physical wounds, I could not heal the injuries to her soul. Her soul was so severely damaged that even I could only alleviate her condition!" the shimmering figure continued, sounding as though this had truly happened. After a pause, the figure went on, "Still, it is not impossible to heal Zhang Hong completely. But I need a spirit herb found only in the Renlan Star Realm, the Ren Kui Twin-Pole Ice Spirit Flower. That is why I sent Xiao Ya there to find it. Yet more than a hundred years have passed, and there has still been no word from him. It truly worries me!"
"What? Xiao Ya has been missing in the Renlan Star Realm for more than a hundred years?" Shock surged through Liu Xian'er, and she spoke anxiously. Although an immortal cultivator's mind grew calmer as their cultivation advanced, concern threw the heart into turmoil. Even with her mental discipline, Liu Xian'er could not help being deeply shaken by such news...
"I do not know what happened, either. The Renlan Star Realm is simply too vast. Perhaps Xiao Ya has merely been unable to find the Ren Kui Twin-Pole Ice Spirit Flower yet. But