She seemed amused by Lan Fang Ziyi's words.
Shen Qingyue chuckled. "Judging by their bone ages, they're still young. There's no need to rush."
She took a bottle of pills from her Storage Bag and handed it to Lan Fang Ziyi. "Give them these. They'll recover a little faster."
Lan Fang Ziyi smiled and thanked her, but declined. He was, after all, a personal disciple of the Heavenly Secret Sect. He hardly lacked a few pills.
Shen Qingyue's expression stiffened slightly, but soon returned to normal. She nodded without insisting and simply put her medicine bottle away. Though she felt she had lost some face, he was the Heavenly Secret Sect's eldest senior brother, after all. What could she do?
Watching Shen Qingyue walk away, Lan Fang Ziyi looked thoughtful. They had followed these four all the way here and had noticed something odd about their relationships. Though the four rarely spoke to one another, he could vaguely sense that the other three disciples seemed to be excluding Shen Qingyue.
Throughout the journey, Shen Qingyue also seemed to speak only to Xia Jue. Her attitude toward the other two disciples even carried a faint hint of disdain.
Who was Shen Qingyue? One of the four most beautiful female cultivators on the Azure Mist Continent. He glanced at Su Jiu and added inwardly, Though the rumors aren't entirely true, her reputation is there, at least.
Lan Fang Ziyi found it hard to imagine how someone like her could be disliked by the other disciples of her sect. Besides, if he remembered correctly, Shen Qingyue was apparently the sect leader's true disciple.
Xia Jue's attitude also intrigued him. On the surface, Xia Jue certainly appeared to treat all three disciples equally. But a closer look at the little details of his behavior