After standing by and watching for quite a while, True Lord Qingxu finally could not hold back any longer. He asked in a low voice, "True Person Xiao, you... if you were interested, all you needed to do was release your divine sense. Not to mention one stall—even ten stalls could be inspected in a single glance. Why ask about them one by one?"
"You are not a fish, so how could you know the joy of a fish?" Xiao Hua said disdainfully. He truly could not happily browse the Gathering of Exchange with True Lord Qingxu.
"Fine..." True Lord Qingxu nodded and asked no more.
Xiao Hua cast a sidelong glance at True Lord Qingxu, equally unable to make out what this cultivator was after.
"Eh..." As Xiao Hua glanced sideways at True Lord Qingxu, his gaze happened to sweep across a Golden Core cultivator's table. Several jade bottles stood upon it, and beneath those bottles lay several bone joints. Such bone joints were not easily detected by divine sense, which was precisely why Xiao Hua had been examining every stall so carefully.
"Greetings, Fellow Daoist!" Xiao Hua walked up to the cultivator's table and cupped his hands.
The Golden Core cultivator swept his eyes over Xiao Hua and True Lord Qingxu behind him. He could not see through Xiao Hua's cultivation, and Xiao Hua's temperament was as gentle as jade, making him seem roughly comparable in cultivation. But True Lord Qingxu beside him was different. Though his cultivation was likewise unreadable, his gaze flashed like lightning and his bearing was kingly. The Golden Core cultivator immediately sensed how deeply concealed True Lord Qingxu was. If True Lord Qingxu was already like this, how could Xiao Hua standing before him be lacking? The Golden Core cultivator did not dare