Chen Yuming put away the flying boat and gave a few instructions. The maidservants hurried off. Then Chen Yuming pointed ahead and said, "Although you four young heroes are Foundation Establishment cultivators, you have rendered tremendous service to our Daoist sect. The City Lord has decreed that this Jingtai Pavilion was originally prepared for mid Golden Core cultivators, yet today it has been specially opened to receive you four meritorious heroes!"
"Many thanks, City Lord!" Li Zongbao took the lead in bowing, though his words seemed rather perfunctory. After saying that, he offered not another word of praise for Qing Liuzi.
Xiao Hua merely sneered. He truly could not imagine what difference there could be between a place for entertaining Golden Core cultivators and one for entertaining Qi Cultivation cultivators! Was it not the Tongmu City Lord who decided whom to receive? Were these not all Qing Liuzi's rules? Was this... what they called saving face? To be honest, Xiao Hua simply did not care about such face at all!
But Chen Yuming did not see it that way. He felt that Tongmu City had bestowed enormous honor upon Li Zongbao and the others, and that they ought to have been overwhelmed with gratitude. Alas, of the four, Li Zongbao remained calm and composed; Xiao Mao looked here and there with great curiosity; Fairy Hongxia had slightly furrowed brows and a mournful expression, as though she were still intoxicated by the tragic beauty of the Tongmu flowers blooming earlier. As for Xiao Hua... his eyes were dull and vacant, treating everything as though it were nothing!
"Hmph, truly..." Chen Yuming felt somewhat displeased, yet did not reveal it. As he walked, he spoke of when Jingtai Pavilion had entertained this or that Golden Core cultivator, and when even Nascent Soul