"Oh? And who might this be?" Xiao Hua was greatly surprised. Looking up, he saw an elderly man in brocade robes flying down from a doorway on the higher level of the hall. Several young disciples followed behind him with excited expressions. Wen Qing and the female disciple with the plum blossom mark on her wrist, whom Xiao Hua had seen earlier, were among them.
This is getting interesting! Xiao Hua stroked his chin, his eyes gleaming thoughtfully. But as he pondered, he was suddenly startled, and inwardly cried out, Ah! This Xiao remembers now. That plum blossom... wasn't it like the plum blossom-shaped token this Xiao saw years ago among a pile of bones on the fourth level of Mo Ran Black Forest? Yes, exactly! Unlike an ordinary plum blossom with five petals, this one actually has seven petals. Could this woman be connected to those bones? If so, that would be interesting indeed. A token found only on Yilin Continent somehow made its way to Xiaoyu Continent. This can only mean that the owner of those bones... knew of the transportation passage in the Wumeng Mountain Range, traveled from there to Xiaoyu Continent, and even reached Mo Ran Black Forest!
Seeing two people suddenly speak up, Rogue cultivator Yuhong frowned slightly. But when his gaze swept over Xiao Hua and then fell upon Nuo Yeqing beside him, he immediately understood something. He withdrew his gaze from the two of them and looked toward the elderly man. Once Rogue cultivator Yuhong saw that the man was actually a late Nascent Soul stage cultivator, he was startled. Not daring to be overly negligent, he cupped his hands and asked, "Oh? This fellow Daoist looks quite unfamiliar! You do not appear to be a cultivator of our Qu Pu Immortal Alliance.