"Well~~~"
"Don't say anything else! I'm speaking to you through a secret voice-transmission art! Senior Brother Zhang can't hear me!" Li Xiaoya had just been about to say something when Lin Xuandao's voice sounded in his ear, cutting him off.
Li Xiaoya glanced at Senior Brother Zhang and suddenly noticed his eyelids twitch. He furtively stuck out his tongue and said nothing more. Senior Brother Lin's voice-transmission art sure is handy. Too bad I don't know it, or we could talk to each other. That armor Senior Brother Zhang's wearing looks awfully impressive. If I put it on and rode a flying sword to Treasure Immortal Town for a spin, wouldn't I cut a grand figure! With that thought, he eyed the armor like a shifty-eyed little rat, wondering when he could get himself a set.
But only when Li Xiaoya truly made progress in cultivation did he discover that this so-called voice-transmission art could be intercepted by anyone whose divine sense was three or four times stronger than his. Senior Brother Zhang had not listened to what Lin Xuandao said simply because Li Xiaoya's questions involved no secrets, so he had not deigned to eavesdrop.
After the two had stood there a short while, they heard someone coming out from inside. A handsome middle-aged man appeared, dressed in purple Daoist robes, with a gold crown on his head and a three-inch beard. He was none other than Sect Master Xuandaozi, followed by the tall Junior Brother Liu.
As soon as Xuandaozi saw the pair, he recognized Li Xiaoya at a glance, even though the boy had changed into the sect's low-ranking disciple uniform. Why is he here? he wondered, but aloud he asked, "Are you the two who brought Patriarch Daoling's Heavenly Capital Jade Token to see me?"
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