In the Southern Jambu Continent, in the small town outside Marvelous Affinity Temple.
Bai Xuanling sat in a noodle shop beside a bustling street, and the owner brought a steaming bowl of freshly cooked noodles to her table.
"Enjoy them while they're hot."
The owner offered the reminder out of habit, then glanced again at the bowl, whose material seemed somewhat extraordinary, as he left.
To the owner, Bai Xuanling was rather odd, an eccentric who brought her own bowl and chopsticks to eat street-side noodles.
But the bowl and chopsticks did indeed look exceptional, not merely in their material-the carved patterns and painted designs on the bowl were also exquisitely detailed.
The owner took a couple more looks at the bowl, then went to attend to other customers.
Yet from beginning to end, he forgot to look at what the owner of that magnificent bowl actually looked like, and did not find that strange.
Looking satisfied, Bai Xuanling took out her own chopsticks and began tasting this bowl of noodles, which could certainly not be called stunning, yet had a different sort of flavor.
Or rather, the feeling in her heart had changed.
Before she passed Tribulation Transcendence, she had to suppress her killing intent every moment. How could she have been in the mood to eat a bowl of noodles then? If she passed by without smashing the noodle stall, that already counted as her being in a good mood.
Now things were completely different. In a moment of leisure, she even wanted a bowl of noodles made by a mortal.
In the end, Chu Xingchen cared about these disciples far too much.
Going to Dongsheng Shenzhou himself to confront the Heavenly Demon was clearly more dangerous, yet he chose to have Huang Miao accompany him while sending