After that voice rang out, the curtains opened completely, revealing a clear, beautiful face. Its owner’s ink-black eyebrows were raised with a mix of delight, surprise, and disbelief. 

Su Yi stopped in his tracks and turned to look. He couldn’t help but exclaim, “What are you doing here?”

The woman in the carriage was none other than Xiao Zijin, Lady Spiritjade.

They first met back in Cloudriver Prefecture, along the banks of the Great Azure not far from Guangling City. Zijin was with her grandfather, Xiao Tianque, when they happened upon Su Yi as he practiced the Pine and Crane Body Refining Technique.

During this chance encounter, Su Yi helped resolve the corpse poison afflicting Xiao Tianque, and he helped Xiao Tianque revise the clan’s legacy cultivation technique, the Golden Billows Incantation.

Su Yi wouldn’t have guessed that now, months later, he’d encounter Xiao Zijin here, at a remote, humble little teahouse not far from an official road.

Furthermore, it seemed there were people out to get her.

But then, this makes sense. The Lanling Xiao Family lives in the White Province; it’s not at all strange that she’d appear here… It didn’t take Su Yi long to understand.

“Master Su, I didn’t expect I’d encounter you here,” said Zijin, her fair, goose-egg-shaped face lighting...