By the time Zhu Ju returned to the Mirror Lake Marketplace, Miaoyi of the Little Zen Sect had already been waiting for a long time.
"Fellow Daoist!"
Miaoyi summoned an auspicious cloud and flew forward to greet him.
"It's wonderful that you're unharmed."
"When did you arrive, Fellow Daoist Miaoyi?" Zhu Ju asked with a smirk.
"Bad timing."
"On this trip, I was ambushed by a Demonic Golden Core. I was lucky to escape with my life. If you had been present today, Fellow Daoist Miaoyi, I'm sure we could have captured that Demonic Golden Core."
Miaoyi's expression turned awkward.
She had been nearby. With the keen perception of a Golden Core Grandmaster, how could she not have sensed Jin Fangqiu of the Celestial Corpse Sect?
However, Jin Fangqiu was a Mid-Stage Golden Core Cultivator who had also refined a Mid-Stage Golden Core Heaven-Soaring Flying Corpse. From her perspective, even if she had gone to help Zhu Ju, it would have been nothing more than suicide.
So...
