Xiao Hua helplessly bowed in salute, then withdrew.
Watching Xiao Hua's back vanish from sight, Zhen Qing said with considerable amusement, "How did Myriad Thunder Valley end up specializing in taking in such unreliable disciples? First Xiangyang, then Xiao Hua, and now Wu Nai. Tsk, tsk... truly a whole pot of rotten porridge!"
Then Zhen Qing said softly, "For such an insensible disciple, it would have been one thing if Master had not punished him, but why give him the jade slip instead? Letting him help Master search for it? Even if he had three heads and six arms... he probably wouldn't have that ability!"
Zhen Ye shook his head. "Minghua Pill has already been refined, and Xiao Hua hurried over to receive his punishment. On top of that, Shuo Lei Hall has already docked him a year's allowance! Not to mention that I am a Golden Core stage patriarch—even you, a Foundation Establishment cultivator and his martial uncle, probably cannot truly punish him for anything, can you?"
"That is true! He has only been a disciple of Zhen Thunder Palace for a little over two months. He probably has not even walked through all of Zhen Thunder Palace yet, so this small oversight is understandable!" Zhen Qing nodded as well. That had been the reason he had spoken up for Xiao Hua earlier.
"But... that bastard truly delayed me. It was exactly these ten days!" Zhen Ye said with some annoyance. "Though it is still impossible to tell whether the news of that thing is true or false, it is still an opportunity! That bastard made it impossible for this old man to go. How can this old man be willing to accept that?"
"Master gave him the jade slip..." Zhen Qing seemed to understand something.
"Yes. Do not