"Junior Brother Wang, you certainly stole the limelight in front of all our martial uncles."
Clouds and mist wreathed the air.
Xi Wushang looked at Wang Ba, his face full of smiles.
"Please stop teasing me, Senior Brother Xi."
Wang Ba looked helpless.
No one had deliberately spread word of what had happened in the Pure Yang Palace.
But when some elders went back to lecture their disciples, they inevitably found themselves using Wang Ba as an example to measure up to.
And so the story of Wang Ba rejecting a Spirit Transformation cultivator's marriage proposal spread.
As a disciple of Pure Origin Peak, Xi Wushang naturally soon learned of it too.
His tone held nothing more than teasing, however. In his heart, Xi Wushang was filled with admiration and gratitude toward Wang Ba.
Back at Evil Dragon Islet, had Wang Ba not turned the tide at the critical moment, all the disciples sent on that inspection mission would probably have been wiped out.
Whenever he thought of it, Xi Wushang felt both ashamed of himself and shaken by lingering fear, and his gratitude toward Wang Ba only deepened.
"I never expected that Qin Lingxiao would think so highly of you."
Xi Wushang sighed.
Wang Ba hastily shook his head. "Please don't bring that up again, Senior Brother."
"Heh, fair enough."
Seeing that Wang Ba was reluctant to discuss it, Xi Wushang nodded slightly.
As they spoke.
On an enormous terrace far below in the distance, a few cultivators could already be faintly seen emerging from a Teleportation Array.
The cultivators of the Human Virtue Hall had long since made their preparations around the Spirit Mirage Heart-Questioning Formation in the middle of the terrace.
But as light rose from the Spirit Mirage Heart-Questioning Formation.
A layer of mist faintly rose