The corridors stretched deep, their colors dazzling and vivid-
At that moment, within the palace chambers.
When Qingzhi's voice suddenly rang out, before Ao Jin could react.
By the water mirror below the steps, the eyes of a tiny dragon girl, as tall as Qingzhi and as exquisite as carved jade, had already lit up.
She eagerly strode over, exhaled with a shout, and without another word swung a fist squarely onto the top of Qingzhi's head!
It sounded as though muffled thunder had burst beside her ears!
Qingzhi let out a howl and crouched down.
After a moment's daze, she twisted her neck hard, glared behind her, and shouted:
"Was I telling you to hit me?!"
"But you didn't say who you were talking to just now..."
The tiny dragon girl muttered, aggrieved.
Then she saw Qingzhi narrow her eyes, a trace of menace quietly creeping onto that plump face.
She shrank back and, once again without another word, hurried down the long flight of steps and tucked herself behind the water mirror to hide.
"It really is... Chen Heng?"
Only after giving the dragon girl an irritated glare did Qingzhi rub her head, grimacing as she turned her gaze toward the water mirror.
Her expression was strange, and doubts inevitably rose in her heart.
How long had it been since they last met?
That little Qi Refining cultivator from Floating Jade Lake in the Southern Territory had actually entered one of the Eight Sects and Six Schools and become a proper Jadechen Disciple?
Qingzhi also recognized the purple robe Chen Heng wore. It was a Talisman Artifact exclusive to the Jade Dawn School.
Like the Vermilion Luminescence Sect's "Scarlet Sun One-Qi Pearl," it served as proof of an outstanding Lower Court disciple's identity and was exceedingly rare.
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