Xue Xue froze slightly, then her face flushed crimson. She said shyly, "Martial Uncle is absolutely right! This junior... this junior..."
"Ha ha ha!" Wu Nai laughed again. With a sweep of his sleeve, he rose into the air and said, "This old man won't tease you anymore, lest I make you blush. Once Xiao Hua emerges from seclusion, I'll have his martial aunt go seek Martial Uncle Xun..."
"Farewell, Martial Uncle Wu Nai!" Xue Xue lowered her head and saluted. Yet tears glimmered in her eyes, and even her face had turned pale. Alas, Wu Nai was so delighted that he did not notice at all.
After Wu Nai had gone far away, Xue Xue gazed after him with lingering reluctance. Unwilling to leave at once, she paced before the cave abode for a long while before finally leaving behind a communication talisman and flying back to Xun Lei Palace.
Naturally, Xiao Hua had no idea that Xue Xue had emerged from seclusion to look for him, much less that the phenomenon caused by his advancement into late Foundation Establishment had drawn Wu Nai's attention. He continued leisurely watching the Prajna Heavy Sword being tempered by lightning, occasionally casting hand seals to control the lightning and alter its rhythm. Now that Xiao Hua had opened new meridians, and with the spiritual qi within his meridians and flesh still being slowly refined through the cultivation of his two strands of Primordial Spirit, he began once more to refine the black specks of Earth Crystal Yao Ru within his meridians, advancing his cultivation and stabilizing his realm.
Xiao Hua would never take out True Person Jinglü's One Qi Deity Transformation Furnace from his space without absolute certainty. He had even made plans already: once that strand of Primordial Spirit had some