Great Zhou, Rising Dragon Pavilion.
A Heavenly Ark slightly smaller than the Jumang Skyship slowly came to a stop at the skyport.
Zhong Lingxiu had received no advance notice and did not know why a Heavenly Ark would dock at the Rising Dragon Pavilion's skyport at this hour, but she still brought people beneath the skyport to welcome it with all due ceremony.
Once the Heavenly Ark had come to a complete stop, several people stepped down.
The clothing worn by the middle-aged man at their head made Zhong Lingxiu's pupils contract sharply.
An Inner Sect elder!?
This was actually an Inner Sect elder, someone who could be called a high-level cultivator!?
Zhong Lingxiu hurried forward. "Zhong Lingxiu, master of the Rising Dragon Pavilion in the vassal state of Great Zhou, pays her respects to the elder."
"No need for such ceremony."
The middle-aged man smiled faintly. "My name is Tang Yi."
"Elder Tang Yi."
Zhong Lingxiu lowered her head in greeting.
Then something occurred to her, stirring her thoughts. "Did you previously serve as an elder of the External Affairs Hall in the Outer Sect?"
"Haha, indeed. Back then, whenever you youngsters wanted to take on sect missions, you all had to come before me."
Tang Yi smiled as he spoke.
"I failed to recognize you at first, Elder Tang. How rude of me..."
"All right, no need to stand on ceremony."
Smiling, Tang Yi took out a box. "On this visit... a fellow Daoist entrusted me with bringing you something."
Zhong Lingxiu was taken aback, but accepted the box nonetheless.
"Why not open it and inspect the goods?"
Tang Yi said.
At his words, Zhong Lingxiu opened the box.
When she saw the pill inside, something virtually every Xiantian Realm martial artist dreamed of day and night, her