While Huang Xiao remained in the "Cultivation Method Archive" examining cultivation methods, Fang Du had already reached the foot of Zhongnan Mountain.
"Mm, a fine place indeed." Fang Du surveyed the surroundings, then looked up and praised the view before setting foot on the steps leading up the mountain.
Inside Green Ox Temple, Qingfeng, Qingyun, and Qinghe were all performing their morning devotions.
After reciting the scriptures, Qingyun and Qinghe rose and said, "Senior Brother, we'll be going, then!"
"Go attend to your business. I'll stay here." With that, Qinghe closed his eyes and continued reciting scriptures before the statue of Lao Jun.
Qingfeng's pursuits differed from those of Qingyun and Qinghe. It would be more accurate to say that Qingfeng had truly set his heart on cultivating the Dao, so apart from overseeing the temple's affairs, he spent his time reciting scriptures. Qingyun, meanwhile, pursued the refinement of all kinds of pills, while Qinghe naturally pursued martial arts. Ever since learning of his master's death, Qinghe had trained all the more desperately, wanting to avenge his master and junior brother. Qingyun, too, had thrown himself into studying alchemy, hoping to refine a Sixty-Year Pill that would allow someone to break through to the first-class level, thereby doing his part to avenge their master.
"Senior Jiang, what brings you here?" Just as Qingyun and Qinghe stepped through the doors of the main hall, they discovered someone standing at the entrance with his back to them. Naturally, they knew this person very well.
Back when the Huaqing Sect's men had stormed Green Ox Temple to force the three of them to hand over the Sixty-Year Pill, this Senior Jiang Ying had fortunately intervened and driven them back, saving all three of them as well as Green Ox Temple.
Jiang Ying had