"What? There was still some great merit?" Not only was Zhen Yuqian stunned, even Wang Yunxiao was baffled.
"There is no need for you to know about this!" Zhen Yue said blandly. "You should both go to Zhen Thunder Palace as well and see where you can lend a hand! Aside from Myriad Thunder Valley disciples, who cannot show themselves, everyone else must make an appearance before the Palace Master. Otherwise, they will bear the name of negligence!"
"This disciple will not go!" Zhen Yuqian sneered. "This disciple still has a cultivation art to comprehend. All the disciples of Thousand Thunder Mountain have gone, so one less disciple will make no difference!"
"You..." Zhen Yue truly felt as though he hated iron for not becoming steel.
Just then, a faint rumble of thunder sounded, and a crimson thunder-sound talisman landed in Zhen Yue's hand.
"Oh?" Zhen Yue raised his brow. He accepted the message talisman and swept it with his divine sense, whereupon astonishment appeared on his face. He immediately instructed them, "Your master is going out for a while. You two..."
Zhen Yue had clearly intended to once again order the two of them to go to Zhen Thunder Palace. But after glancing at Zhen Yuqian's expression, he said no more. Lightning flickered around him as he flew toward the direction from which the thunder-sound talisman had come.
"Senior Brother, you go ahead! This little brother will return to cultivate in seclusion!" Before Zhen Yue's figure had even vanished, Zhen Yuqian turned and flew toward a cave dwelling without saluting Wang Yunxiao. Wang Yunxiao merely watched his retreating back impassively, then returned to Zhen Yue's cave dwelling. After some time had passed, he shot into the air and headed straight for Zhen Thunder Palace.
As Zhen Yue flew all