Li Yingling looked at Zhang Miaoyu, whose expression was clearly a little off. Right now, she rather resembled a child longing for praise, with the pitiful little look of someone who had finally received it after enduring a thousand hardships.
Zhang Miaoyu's large, watery eyes stared straight at Li Yingling, the corners of her mouth set at a strange angle somewhere between a smile and tears.
Li Yingling thought back carefully. Apart from her master and her junior brother and sisters, she did indeed rarely praise anyone else, and she had praised Zhang Miaoyu even less.
Over all these years, she could count the instances on one hand.
It was not that Li Yingling was stingy with praise, but that the difficulty of many tasks hardly warranted praise in her eyes.
Doing them well was only to be expected; botching them meant you truly were incompetent.
It was the sort of thing Li Yingling could not even muster the energy to scold someone over-after all, there was little point in discussing with a good-for-nothing why they were a good-for-nothing.
Her occasional praise was only meant as encouragement, but because she was close to Zhang Miaoyu, Li Yingling had somewhat unconsciously excluded her from this sort of morale-boosting encouragement.
Looking at Zhang Miaoyu's expression now, Li Yingling pondered briefly, then decided to give her a proper reward.
As for the reward...
Li Yingling thought for a moment, picked up a jade token, and used spiritual power to pass it to Zhang Miaoyu, who still looked deeply touched. She cleared her throat lightly and said:
"Given your excellent performance recently, I have a simple assignment for you."
"The Three-Sect Alliance has ordered a hunt for the Heavenly Demons and set up information posts for ordinary cultivators in various places. After all, Shenzhou