Yet Xue Yubing could never get the rest of her words out, as though something had lodged in her throat.
As for Yue Lingshan, she pressed her lips together, unable to squeeze out a single word.
She had never imagined that the cultivator with a middle-grade spiritual root whom she had once deemed "unworthy of her" would have already succeeded in Foundation Establishment.
Yue Lingshan's thoughts were a tangled skein. What about the marriage? Do I really have to become his Dao companion? This is my first time even meeting him!
Seeing Di Huaiyi and the others bow in greeting, Qing Chen finally spoke with a beaming smile:
"Brother Di, we haven't seen each other in years. Why stand on such ceremony? We hit it off like old friends on that trip to Mysterious Mountain Island!
"And Yubing, we're all old acquaintances from the Seven Kingdoms. Just keep calling me Brother Qing. Hahaha."
Qing Chen's words were warm and easygoing.
Di Huaiyi and Xue Yubing both had high-grade spiritual roots, and both were now at the ninth layer of Qi Refining.
The hurdle of Foundation Establishment probably would not stop them.
Seeing their astonishment and their bows had thoroughly pleased Qing Chen, so he did not mind offering them a little goodwill now.
As for the female disciple beside them who actually refused to bow to him, he would have to give her a proper working-over.
A mere eighth-layer Qi Refining cultivator dared to disrespect a Foundation Establishment High Person like him.
Had her little face and figure not been rather nice, Qing Chen would have wanted to find an opportunity later to refine her into it.
Utterly insolent! Outrageous! I'm putting this on your account.
So Qing Chen thought, but his expression never changed, remaining as warm as a