(Sorry, Ping Yongjia was written as Yuan Qu in three places, nearly making him disappear too. They have now been corrected, at 8:20.)
Ping Yongjia did not stay in Jing Garden for very long.
He had left Green Mountain under the pretext of attending the Plum Gathering, so he had to attend it after all. Besides, wasn't his master's home in Chaoge City? With these thoughts, he left the thick fog and returned to Yunji Town, where, under the shocked, envious gazes of those cultivators, he found an unremarkable trading house.
Back on Divine End Peak, Gu Qing had told Yuan Qu and Ping Yongjia many things, such as the situation in the Cultivation World and Divine End Peak's enemies and friends. Naturally, these included some important details he thought they ought to remember, such as the fact that this trading house belonged to the Gu Household, and that they could ask its people to handle anything they needed done.
"I'm Ping Yongjia," he told the proprietor. "I don't know if you've heard of me?"
Yuan Qu and he might not remember everything Gu Qing had told them, but every single person in the Gu Household, from top to bottom, would absolutely know the names, appearances, and habits of everyone on Divine End Peak by heart. The proprietor bowed with the utmost respect and said, "Please give your instructions, Immortal Master."
Ping Yongjia said, "Do you know where my senior brother went?"
What had happened at the Green Mountain Sword Trial had yet to spread through the Cultivation World, but it could not be hidden from the Gu Household. The proprietor knew this Immortal Master had spent years in seclusion on Green Mountain and did not know what had happened afterward. "We haven't received any news either, but