Only then did Su Jiu realize what Yun Huanling meant. "So?"
Yun Huanling gave a mysterious smile. "I think we can travel together again from here on.
"The disappearance of the souls inside the Spirit Banner clearly had something to do with that couple. But by the time we found them, they were already dead. We suspect whoever released the souls feared the couple might say something they shouldn't.
"And your Senior Brother just said that the people who abducted your fellow disciples were the same group who killed that couple. Wouldn't you say we share the same goal?"
It had to be said that Yun Huanling's smile looked rather odd just then, as though a great bushy tail were swishing back and forth behind him.
Her face expressionless, Su Jiu pushed Yun Huanling's big face a little farther away.
"We'll see."
Although that was what Su Jiu said, Yun Huanling knew her well enough to realize this was all but settled, and his heart lifted a little.
Discussion buzzed below the stage, while the contest onstage had also reached its final moments.
They had been so focused on their conversation that they had failed to notice when the contest onstage reached fever pitch.
Ming Yun looked terrible. After studying and practicing pill refining for so long, she had never known that truly good pills should release no fragrance whatsoever when they emerged from the furnace, let alone send their fragrance drifting ten li away.
Just as that Junior Disciple from the Medicine Gate had said, good pills kept all their medicinal fragrance sealed within.
And Tang Wuchen and Gu Ningyun had accomplished precisely that.
In this respect, those two were undoubtedly a cut above her.
Yet when it came time to identify the pills and determine their tiers, Gu