Lu Qingshan deliberately stressed the word "shrewd" and even glanced at Zhang Xuanhe and the others behind him.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Zhang Xuanhe immediately glared at him.
"You brat, pointing at the mulberry tree to curse the locust tree, are you?"
Actually, Chun Xiaobai had considered sending Lu Qingshan elsewhere to round up some people.
After all, the Azure Cloud Sect would be his own territory in the future. If he squandered all its people, he would be the one left suffering.
But on second thought, judging by his years of experience as a mountain king, this job was no different from picking up money. Why let rich water flow into someone else's fields?
They should recruit from the Azure Cloud Sect first.
"All right." Chun Xiaobai waved a hand, then gave him detailed instructions.
"Get going. We'll wait for you at the rendezvous point we agreed on."
"You got it!"
Lu Qingshan patted his backside, stamped on the ground, and shot into the air, flying toward the Azure Cloud Sect with a whoosh.
His cultivation had improved considerably during this period, too.
After being stuck in the Golden Core Realm for over five hundred years, he had finally surged all the way into the Nascent Soul Realm.
Bai Jin'er, Fang Yuan, and Bai Yutang had also raised their cultivation by a whole realm, all breaking through to the Golden Core Realm.
Especially Bai Jin'er.
She knew full well that if she remained a little fledgling like before, she would never be worthy of the Great King.
So, some time ago, she had made a special trip around all the major auction houses, buying up every peerless medicinal treasure of the highest grade for raising cultivation and refining the physique. She had spent over ten billion in one