"You want to give me something?" Liu Zijin was a little surprised.
"Junior Brother Taiping, treasures from the mountain cannot be taken out by Junior Sister."
Du Qianjiang reminded Xu Taiping.
"It's nothing precious." Xu Taiping lifted the small wooden box he had kept tucked beneath his arm, supporting it with one hand, then opened its lid with the other.
As the lid rose, a dazzling golden light spilled out of the wooden box.
Everyone looked closely and was struck speechless.
What Xu Taiping had brought was a box of gold.
But a moment later, Peak Lord Shen laughed heartily again and said,
"You've thought of everything, Taiping. Down below the mountain, this is far more useful than Immortal Pills or Spirit Treasures."
"Thank you."
Liu Zijin smiled happily, then took the box Xu Taiping handed her.
What made her happy was not what Xu Taiping had given her, but that in this vast Azure Profound Sect, someone still thought of her after all.
"Liu Zijin, you've seen them. It's time to go."
Graywing Spirit Crane urged her again.
Hearing this, Liu Zijin's eyes dimmed once more, but she soon forced another faint smile onto her pretty, slightly haggard face and said,
"Until we meet again, Junior Brother Taiping."
As she spoke, she hugged the box of gold tightly.
"Until we meet again."
Xu Taiping smiled and nodded too.
Outside the mountain.
In a stretch of lush green forest.
Liu Zijin stood all alone beneath a towering cedar.
Above the forest overhead, a spirit crane was slowly disappearing into the horizon.
Gazing at a narrow path through the forest ahead, Liu Zijin stood in a daze.
Although she had appeared perfectly calm and composed when bidding farewell to her master and the others, it had all been a disguise,