Dao Child?
Liu Jing stepped back slightly, lowered his head and eyes, and remained silent for two or three breaths before slowly speaking:
"Thank you for your appraisal, True Lord. My learning is inadequate. I shall shut myself away and undertake deep inquiry and broad study, in hopes of advancing my Pill Arts another step."
With that, he respectfully cupped his hands and bowed toward Kan Water Palace, slowly retreated down the steps, then turned and left.
A long while later, Liu Jing entered the Cloud-Planning Dharma Boat and sat back down on the Six-Dragon Embroidered Couch, saying in a low voice:
"Return to Zhen Peak!"
The Azure Tiger glanced up toward the main peak, then remained silent.
Driven by the Array Spirit, the Cloud-Planning Dharma Boat cleaved straight through layer upon layer of Ren Water imagery. The jade-green waves shattered against it, only appearing all the more turbulent and swift. "True Person Liu made such a grand undertaking to seek an audience with the True Lord, yet he came out so quickly?"
"The Cloud-Planning Dharma Boat parted the waves, and the Tianwu Water Earl Banner stilled the surges. They've only just passed the Nine-Bend Joined Green Array! After all that effort, could he have failed to see our True Lord?"
"It's only natural that a Zhen Peak disciple wouldn't be welcome here on Kan Peak..."
The idle chatter drifted into Liu Jing's ears on the wind, sounding particularly grating to him.
He could no longer maintain the placid expression on his face, which gradually turned dark.
Yet this Foundation Establishment True Person still said nothing. Only when the Cloud-Planning Dharma Boat had flown completely beyond Kan Peak's bounds did he suddenly sweep his sleeve!
Clear and turbid Qi phenomena burst outward around him, pressing the entire dharma boat down