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“Has he left?”
In the main hall of the Divine Brilliance Sect, Li Shentong stood with his hands behind his back, gazing silently at the statue of the sect’s founding ancestor. Outside, Situ Xiao, who was usually carefree and rowdy, dared not make a sound. He answered honestly, “As soon as you left, he left too. He didn’t even drink. It was as if he was standing on burning coals.”
“He gave you something. Did you return the gesture?”
Situ Xiao sighed with a bit of helplessness. “Yes, I did, but he didn’t even look at it. He just stuffed it into his pocket.”
Li Shentong was visibly stunned for a moment, then laughed aloud. “Interesting. But it doesn’t matter. What we give is ours to give. If he tosses it in the trash, that’s his business. The Divine Brilliance Sect owes nothing to no one.”
What Situ Xiao had given Zhao Changhe was the Divine Brilliance Sect’s core body cultivation manual. It was the very foundation of the sect.
He had clearly given it to repay the body cultivation technique that Zhao Changhe had casually gifted him. It was a way to settle debts. Whether Zhao Changhe could make use of the body cultivation technique was irrelevant—the value was in the gesture.
A secret art at the second layer of the Profound Mysteries was casually given away, and a sect’s foundational cultivation technique was handed over in return. Neither side seemed to care much about it.
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