She showered him with praise, as if she were seeing Lin Xiuyuan for the first time, and looked at him with eyes that seemed to sparkle with stars.

For some reason, Zhou Qingxue seemed even happier than him.

Lin Xiuyuan smiled and didn't say anything for a moment, but instead cupped his hands in a gesture of greeting.

Upon seeing this, the two disciples guarding the mountain, who were suspended in the air, nodded slightly and then rode away in their escape light.

Lin Xiuyuan turned back to Zhou Qingxue, extended his hand and said, "Please, my humble abode is simple and I'm afraid I haven't been able to provide adequate hospitality."

"It's alright, we cultivators naturally don't concern ourselves with such trivial matters."

Although Zhou Qingxue was already quite old, equivalent to a middle-aged woman in the secular world, cultivators could not be completely compared to her. Moreover, her appearance was still somewhat immature and naive, and she looked like a young girl.

Speaking such old-fashioned and profound words creates a strange sense of contradiction, making one feel a little amused.

Lin Xiuyuan smiled, led Zhou Qingxue to the main hall and seated her. After brewing a pot of spiritual tea, he asked:

"Cousin Qingxue's sudden visit, is there something important that you have to discuss?"

Lin Xiuyuan remained calm, already having some guesses about it, and felt that it was probably true.

"It's nothing particularly important. I was just bored with cultivation and came out to relax. Besides, our cousin Xiuyuan is so powerful. If I don't come and support him, it will be difficult to visit him again once he becomes a high-level expert."

Zhou Qingxue chuckled and said playfully.

Lin Xiuyuan smiled slightly, neither confirming nor denying it, and then asked about Zhou Qingxue's cultivation.

Logically speaking, Zhou Qingxue should have been cultivating for forty or fifty years, right? And she's still in the core cultivation sequence of the Zhou family... Most geniuses can achieve the Foundation Establishment stage in their twenties or thirties.

Even if Zhou Qingxue's talent is somewhat lacking, with such a long period of time and such a strong level of training, she is, after all, the granddaughter of the clan leader. The resources available to her at the Qi Refining stage should not be bad, and she should have broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage.