"Purple Bamboo!" the girl softly read the words on it, then her gaze fell on the character "Yun" in the bottom-right corner.
After only a moment's thought, the girl's face flushed scarlet.
She cast Tang Yan an embarrassed glance and found the rascal looking at her teasingly. She wished she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
So she had thought she had fooled everyone by posing as Zi Yun, only to find that he had known all along and simply never exposed her.
"You... are you from Purple Bamboo City?" the girl asked awkwardly.
"No. I met Miss Zi by chance, and she gave me this jade token," Tang Yan explained softly.
"Then why didn't you expose me sooner?"
"I wasn't curious about your identity. What difference would knowing make?" Tang Yan asked calmly in return.
"My name is Qing Xuan." The girl looked at Tang Yan and said earnestly, "I didn't lie to you."
Tang Yan nodded and asked, "Now that you have this ice heart jade marrow, what do you plan to do with it?"
"Other than the Nine-Turn Reforging Pill, there aren't any other pills that can be refined with ice heart jade marrow. I can only have him take it directly, then look for another way."
"How much ice heart jade marrow did you get?" Tang Yan pressed.
After hesitating, Qing Xuan took a porcelain bottle out of her storage space. "Three bottles this size."
Looking at the fist-sized bottle, Tang Yan could not help marveling at the girl's luck. She had actually found so much.
Taking a deep breath, Tang Yan said, "One bottle should be enough to prolong his life by half a year. If you trust me, you can keep two bottles and give me the remaining one. Within