How could she appear in Cloud Sea City, tens of thousands of miles away?
Wen Ping squatted down, picked up the box she dropped in a panic, and fell into a trance.
"Sect Leader, what’s wrong?" Seeing Wen Ping suddenly dazed, Miao Yin quickly asked, but received no response. It was the first time she saw the Sect Leader looking , burdened with heavy thoughts and lost in reverie.
Suddenly, Wen Pingchong said to the three, "Elder Qingxuan, you take them to the auction house first."
Without waiting for a response, Wen Ping quickly walked through the crowd, chasing after her.
He felt he couldn’t be mistaken.
That must be Shi Hua.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have run away upon seeing him.
"Shi Hua!" He called out, seeing her back as she navigated through the crowd, head down, as if intent on leaving the market and walking far away, never to see him again.
Upon his shout, Shi Hua ran even faster.
However, Wen Ping, with a few steps, caught up behind her. As an Upper Profound Realm cultivator, how could he be shaken off by a Body Refining Realm cultivator? When he reached to grab her shoulder, Shi Hua frantically messed up her hair.
"Who are you! If you want to rob something, take it all. If you wish to assault me, I will scream..." Shi Hua turned around abruptly, her face fully covered by her hair, backing off a few steps, clearly in fear and keeping her distance.
To prevent Wen Ping from recognizing her, she intentionally huskied her voice.
It sounded like someone suffering from a long-term untreated cold.
With Shi Hua yelling , people around them looked at Wen Ping with odd gazes. Although Shi Hua’s face was covered by hair, her graceful figure led everyone to subconsciously think Wen Ping was a frivolous person.
Wen Ping could only muster a wry smile at this.
Then he quickly handed the box over, saying, "You dropped your object." Wen Ping didn’t attempt to remove her concealing hair. He suddenly realized Shi Hua was very fragile at this moment, so fragile that if he revealed her face, she would certainly flee.
Chasing her held no meaning.
He couldn’t make her want to recognize him as a friend.
"I’m sorry, you look very much like a friend of mine." Wen Ping apologized again and stepped back.
Shi Hua clutched the box, turned, and escaped quickly, disappearing into the crowd in no time.
Wen Ping did not immediately pursue.
Instead, he started pondering why she could come to Cloud Sea City.
Her realm was higher than before, now Body Refining Stage 10, progressing swiftly. But, from East Lake to Cloud Sea City, the towering mountains he saw along the way, the colossal Great Demons, were not traversable by someone in the Body Refining Realm.
Wen Ping then walked to an alley, observing the street, with intuition that Shi Hua would return.
Because the object in the box certainly wasn’t hers; no Body Refining Realm cultivator could afford market items.
She must have been helping someone carry the object.
Sure enough, after a while, Shi Hua ran back, this time more urgently, as if an emergency had arisen at home. She followed the path back to where Wen Ping had encountered her.
However, upon arrival, before she could speak, she was slapped.
Shi Hua half-covered face quickly turned red.
The woman who hit her looked at Shi Hua with a freezing gaze, then cursed directly, "Where the hell were you?"
"I..." Shi Hua did not speak further.
"Damn it!" Wen Ping immediately moved to intervene; the woman was only in the Divine Profound Lower Realm, yet dared to hit anyone.
But, just as he was about to step forward, suddenly someone held him back. The force was so strong Wen Ping couldn’t escape. At least he felt no murderous intent, so he didn’t immediately use the Long Yue Sword to counter.
Turning back, a familiar face came into view.
The arrival of Ji Liangping made people scatter, looking at Wen Ping with rather peculiar expressions. Because the Dean of Celestial Academy, a Divine Profound Upper Realm cultivator, was greeting yet a young guy.
After hearing Ji Liangping call out, they realized that this was a Sect Leader of a major faction!
"Sect Leader Wen." Ji Liangping smiled at him, "Why have you come to Cloud Sea City!"
From afar in Cangwu City, which is so far away, he relied on "Black and White Impermanence" and took a friend’s Divine Profound Upper Realm Wing Race Great Demon, arriving at Cloud Sea City only yesterday. Coming here, he recalled Wen Ping still being at the sect, showing no intention of travel.
Could there be a Demon faster than the Divine Profound Upper Realm Wing Race Great Demon?
Wen Ping blinked at Ji Liangping, "Why are you holding onto me?"
"Sect Leader Wen, let’s chat, we are old friends after all." Though confined for a few days, it counts as friendship since they’ve been in the same place together for several days, "Come, I’ll treat you to a drink."
"Drink..." Wen Ping gazed at Shi Hua; however, she and the women seemed to have vanished into thin air. Looking around, he still couldn’t see the woman or Shi Hua’s traces, "Drink my damn foot!"
Coming at the worst possible time, at the best possible time.
Holding onto me right now, is this guy poisonous or what?
With that, Wen Ping walked briskly into the market, intending to check if they had gone inside. However, Ji Liangping immediately followed, adopting a shadow-like manner.
"Sect Leader Wen, that Vortex Map you made?" Ji Liangping smiled, not speaking too plainly.
"The Vortex Map being auctioned at the Mu Family Auction House, attachable to weapons, granting invincible defense for five breaths." Ji Liangping quickly lowered his voice, he was only speculating about this.
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Even if not him, it must be made by someone from Immortal Sect.
"Indeed... can you stop following me." Wen Ping didn’t hide, simply nodded, thinking to quickly send Ji Liangping away.
Ji Liangping was delighted.
What he suspected was confirmed by Wen Ping, being two entirely different things.
Ji Liangping urgently inquired, "The Vortex Map, Sect Leader Wen, could you sell me two?"
"Why not go bid yourself."
Wen Ping accelerated his pace; unfortunately, arriving at the auction house door, Shi Hua and the woman were still nowhere to be seen.
"Sect Leader Wen, the auction pressure is too great... sell me two sheets..." Ji Liangping saw Wen Ping heading away, quickly pursued
This scene was caught by Bai Hao from the City Lord’s Mansion.
Handling the Divine Profound Realm murder case in the market, he had increased patrolling there, walking along and encountering Ji Liangping.
The Divine Profound Upper Realm is a giant-level figure in a Three-star Influence, making him immensely important in Cloud Sea City. A person , every move in Cloud Sea City is closely observed, let alone Ji Liangping now chasing after a youth.
Such a scene truly baffled Bai Hao, "What sect is this kid a Sect Leader of, for Ji Elder to treat him . Could it be... he’s a Sect Leader of a Four-star Sect?"
If that’s true, it’s imperative to befriend him!
Cloud Sea City is vast, but not as vast as a Four-star Influence!