It took less than the time of a meal for Cai Zhuoxia to fly over. Seeing Xiao Hua's dumbfounded expression, Cai Zhuoxia giggled. "Fellow Daoist Xiao, must you alone be allowed to advance to the middle stage of the Qi Cultivation third layer, while I am not allowed to enter seclusion and cultivate?"
Xiao Hua looked at Cai Zhuoxia's cultivation at the peak of the Qi Cultivation fifth layer and said with a bitter smile, "I... ahem, I only thought that Fellow Daoist had gone to the Qimeng Mountain Range. I never expected you to be nearby. Could it be that Fellow Daoist has already picked the Mother-Child Spirit Fruit?"
"What does Fellow Daoist Xiao think?" Cai Zhuoxia did not answer, instead asking him in return.
"This..." Xiao Hua frowned slightly, then immediately smiled. "If Fellow Daoist Cai had gone to the Qimeng Mountain Range, surely you would have sent me word. Since I received no message from Fellow Daoist Cai, I assume you have not gone to the Qimeng Mountain Range yet?"
Cai Zhuoxia clapped her hands. "Worthy indeed of being the fellow Daoist I think highly of! Fellow Daoist Xiao, you actually trust me so much. It truly comforts me!"
How could Xiao Hua have thought so much into it? He had merely seen that Cai Zhuoxia's cultivation had improved, and... the jade vial in his possession contained Foundation Establishment Pills. The vial Cai Zhuoxia had received presumably could not have contained anything much different. That was why he casually asked. Just as Xiao Hua smiled and was about to say something, he suddenly froze and blurted out, "Fellow Daoist Cai, could it be... you... took a Foundation Establishment Pill?"
Hearing this, Cai Zhuoxia sighed faintly. She neither nodded nor shook her head, merely lifting her eyes to