Zhou Qingyun hesitated awkwardly, but in the end she accepted the jade slip.
Master Canxia smiled. "Go on. As the sage said, among any three people walking together, one can surely be my teacher. Three Pure Ones Mountain truly deserves its standing as a great religious lineage. Its foundations surpass even Emei's, and it has the heart to aid the world. Even two disciples picked at random are remarkable. Follow them and learn well."
Zhou Qingyun assented.
Not daring to delay any longer, the three took their leave of Master Canxia and continued surveying the mountains and observing qi.
"Fellow Daoist Qingyun, do you know how to observe qi?"
Zhou Qingyun flushed and shook her head. "I have never learned, Senior. And please, just call me Qingyun."
Jianxian nodded, then said no more.
Cheng Xinzhan concentrated all the more on surveying the feng shui, examining everything more carefully. He no longer paid attention to beautiful scenery, lest he repeat his mistake.
With an outsider newly among them, master and disciple could hardly continue discussing Thunder Arts. Thus, despite the extra person, things became even quieter.
Zhou Qingyun did not know whether the two were normally so quiet or whether her earlier rash words and actions had made them unwilling to speak. For a while, she felt rather subdued too.
But she was no ordinary person. Keeping Master Canxia's instructions firmly in mind, she watched carefully as the two leaped among the mountain rocks,
sometimes testing the wind, sometimes sniffing the soil, and occasionally riding clouds into the air to survey the distance. She felt she had learned a great deal herself.
Sometimes she called out a warning, explaining whose cave residence lay ahead and that they should not fly higher to look around, or what ancient poisonous miasma lay ahead