"Greetings, Senior Bei Ming Dragon Kun."
Su Qing looked at the gaunt old man who had appeared before him, sighed, and cupped his hands in greeting.
The gaunt old man wore a tattered black robe. Not a single hair grew on his gleaming scalp, and his cloudy eyes looked dull and heavy, as though he were about to lie down in a coffin.
Yet in the perception of Su Qing and Nine Nether, the spot where he stood was utterly empty, as though he did not exist.
"Oh? You recognize me?"
At Su Qing's words, the old man seemed to take a little interest, but then shook his head and spoke.
"The Thunder Domain is meant for tempering yourself. Borrowing the Nine Nether Sparrow's power to condense Heavenly Thunder Beads already counts as breaking the rules."
"This junior failed to keep his companion in line. I am willing to return every Heavenly Thunder Bead we condensed. I hope you will be magnanimous, Headmaster, and overlook this matter."
Su Qing cupped his hands again in apology, while shooting a fierce glare at the aggrieved Nine Nether inside his dantian's Qi Sea.
"You're quite an interesting fellow."
Ignoring what Su Qing had just said, the old man looked him up and down and continued at his own pace.
"Let's set aside how you managed to enter the Eighth Layer of Thunder Domain with a cultivation at the Mid-Stage Heaven Fusion Realm. Perhaps you possess dazzling talent, or perhaps you took some unorthodox shortcut. There are only so many possibilities."
"But what intrigues me most is that a member of the proud Nine Nether Sparrow Clan actually formed a Bloodline Link with a human. In all my years, this is the first time I've seen such a thing."
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