The Heavenly Demon Sect Encampment, outside the centermost room.
Qin Hao carefully avoided the restrictions and arrived before the door. He gently knocked and said:
“Senior sister, are you inside?”
After waiting for a while, the door opened.
Qin Hao looked up and saw a graceful, somewhat dreamlike woman walk out.
She wore a black dress. Her alluring softness, fair and slender legs, long, delicate fingers, and faint virgin fragrance were all irresistibly captivating.
The only regret was that a veil covered her face, making her features impossible to see clearly.
“What do you want with me?” Qin Mengya said coldly.
“Please accept these, senior sister.” Qin Hao revealed a fawning smile and handed over the lakebed grass and jade bottle.
“There is no need. Mo Bufan gave me a stalk of lakebed grass three hours ago. Thank you for your kind intentions, junior brother.”
Before she could finish speaking, Qin Mengya was already about to enter the room.
Qin Hao hurried forward and grabbed Qin Mengya.
Looking at Qin Hao as he held her, displeasure appeared in Qin Mengya’s beautiful eyes. Qin Hao keenly sensed her displeasure and quickly released her, saying:
“Senior sister, take a look at what is inside this jade bottle.”
Qin Mengya hesitated for a moment as she looked at the jade bottle Qin Hao held out, but she still took it.
Qin Hao breathed a sigh of relief.
The lakebed grass could be intercepted, but I refuse to believe the Hantian Stalactite Milk could be intercepted too!
Sure enough, after Qin Mengya looked at the Hantian Stalactite Milk inside the bottle, her expression changed noticeably. With a hint of surprise, she asked, “How did you obtain the Hantian Stalactite Milk?”
“It was all thanks to luck, all thanks to luck.” Qin Hao laughed awkwardly. Naturally, he could not reveal the truth and could only answer vaguely.
As the inner sect eldest senior sister, Qin Mengya naturally understood Qin Hao’s meaning and did not press further. After sizing him up slightly, she felt somewhat puzzled.
This Zhang San seemed different from before.
Especially his bearing and gaze.
His eyes now appeared much clearer than before.
This gave Qin Mengya a somewhat favorable impression of Qin Hao. Unlike lakebed grass, Hantian Stalactite Milk was extremely difficult to obtain.
Moreover, inside Cold Heaven Cave on Hantian Mountain lived an Icefire Cold Python. Ordinary people could not deal with it, and even she would have been helpless against it.
It was a demon beast capable of matching the qi refinement peak.
“This Hantian Stalactite Milk is extremely important to me. Since it is your kind intention, junior brother, I will accept it. Please come in and have a cup of tea.”
Qin Hao had initially wanted to refuse, but then he remembered that he had come here precisely to find a backer. He absolutely could not miss such an opportunity to get close and build a relationship!
Actually, Qin Hao mainly wanted to find an opportunity to see Qin Mengya’s true face.
Thus, Qin Hao entered the room that even the Heavenly Demon Sect Inner Sect Eldest senior brother could not enter.
The room was simply furnished: one table, four stools, one bed, one mirror, and a wardrobe.
A faint, elegant fragrance permeated the air.
“It smells wonderful.” Qin Hao could not help murmuring.
“You are being rather presumptuous.” Qin Mengya spoke, seemingly with some disgust.
Qin Hao looked innocent. He had merely been speaking the truth!
“Senior sister, I was only speaking the truth. How was I being presumptuous?”
“I have lived here for some time. Why have I never smelled any fragrance?”
“Senior sister, you simply do not understand. When one has lived in an orchid room for a long time, one no longer notices its fragrance.”
Qin Hao’s words made Qin Mengya’s eyes light up. She said, “You possess some literary talent.”
“Sit for a moment. I will brew a pot of tea.”
“Senior sister, where are you going to brew the tea?” Before Qin Hao could finish speaking, Qin Mengya had already vanished, leaving him looking puzzled.
“System, what is going on? How did a perfectly fine person disappear?”
“Host, you are currently inside a powerful space magical treasure. Qin Mengya used the magical treasure’s power just now to travel elsewhere.”
“What the heck? This place is only so big. Where else could she have gone?”
“What the host can currently see is merely the tip of the iceberg.”
Qin Hao understood at once.
Clearly, Qin Mengya simply did not want him to see more!
Qin Hao was neither angry nor upset. If he were in her place, he would have done the same.
However, judging from this, raising her favorability would be difficult.
After half a quarter of an hour, Qin Mengya appeared again, holding a cup of tea.
The moment Qin Hao smelled it, a rich tea fragrance filled his nose.
“Junior brother, please.” Qin Mengya handed over the teacup.
Qin Hao accepted it, gently lifted the lid, and took a small sip.
As the tea entered his mouth, he immediately felt refreshed and invigorated. Countless thoughts arose in his mind, while strands of spiritual power washed through his body and soul. His cultivation level was actually rising slowly.
Moreover, an indescribable dao resonance lingered in his mind.
“The Dao That Can Be Spoken Is Not the Eternal Dao.” Qin Hao almost blurted it out.
When Qin Mengya heard these words, she seemed to have been struck by lightning. It took her a long while to recover, after which she fell into deep thought, pondering the words Qin Hao had spoken.
Qin Hao paid no attention to this minor detail.
He continued savoring Qin Mengya’s cup of tea.
This tea was definitely no ordinary tea!
“I actually finished it without realizing it.”
When Qin Hao came to his senses, he discovered that not a drop of tea remained in the cup. His cultivation level had also risen to perfection at the eighth layer of qi refinement. If he Devoured a Cultivator or demon beast now, Qin Hao would be able to advance to the ninth layer of qi refinement!
Moreover, the benefits went far beyond this.
As Qin Hao sensed it, he felt that his control over his own power far surpassed what it had been before.
His comprehension of certain things also far exceeded that of the past.
“This tea actually raised my realm!”
Still shocked, Qin Hao looked toward Qin Mengya, who was still deep in thought.
“I never expected the tea bestowed by senior sister to be such a precious treasure. I am deeply grateful for your favor,” Qin Hao said.
Qin Mengya came back to herself and shook her head, seemingly puzzled as she looked at Qin Hao with an incomprehending gaze.
This junior brother before her was not simple.
“What is so precious about a mere cup of tea? Rather, the words you spoke while drinking tea gave me profound insight.”
The Dao That Can Be Spoken Is Not the Eternal Dao!
With merely six simple words, it actually expounded the principles of the Great Dao.
Even her father might not possess such a realm.
At that moment, Qin Hao wished he could slap himself across the mouth.
What a loose mouth!
He had actually carelessly quoted the famous words of some great person.
Now Qin Mengya thought he had comprehended them himself.
This was becoming incredibly amusing.
“Hehe, it was just something I said without thinking. I merely had a slight insight while drinking tea and blurted it out.”
Qin Mengya shook her head again. Her gaze toward Qin Hao changed repeatedly. She could not understand this junior brother before her.
“Junior brother, there is no need to be modest. If, as you say, those were merely words spoken without thought after gaining a slight insight, how many cultivators and seniors would be left ashamed? Even my father might not possess such insight.”
At this point, Qin Hao felt that he really needed to study the art of speaking.
Qin Mengya actually thought he was being modest!
Then again, in such a situation, anyone would think he was being modest.
The Dao That Can Be Spoken Is Not the Eternal Dao!
It was not something an ordinary person could say!
This was a profound maxim spoken by a great figure of Huaxia whose name had been recorded throughout the ages.