After disappearing for ten years, the junior sister made the entire sect kneel down to welcome her.

Say the important thing three times.

Luo Zhen repeatedly checked the exact location of the One Leaf Sect in his mind before secretly leaving the City of the Divine Palace.

The source of this spiritual energy surge could not be found in the shrine.

Since no harm was caused, the matter was eventually dropped.

Even though I've stopped eating grains, I still crave them.

Luo Huanzhen held onto his last spirit stone, intending to buy himself a steamed bun.

Money is scarce, and people are greedy.

This is all I can afford.

I wonder if the meat buns from Central Continent and those from Eastern Continent taste any different?

With this in mind, Luo Huanzhen arrived at a steamed bun shop with a long queue—

It's common knowledge that when you go to a new place, the longer the line at a store, the better the food is!

This is the reason why Luo Zhenhuan queued up to buy food in the cafeteria.

Finally, it was my turn.

Luo Zhen wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth, stood on tiptoe, and handed the spirit stone in his hand to the steamed bun shop owner.

"Give me a meat bun!"

Luo Huanzhen has a very pleasant voice, a childish, sweet voice with a touch of bossy arrogance, but it's not annoying.

Instead, it makes you want to pinch her chubby, fair cheeks.

The owner of the steamed bun shop also smiled.

"Alright, here's a freshly steamed meat bun for you, young Daoist!"

The boss is a nice person.

Sure enough, they picked out a large steamed bun with a thin skin and a generous filling for Luo Huanzhen. Luo Huanzhen took it, stood to the side, made room for the cultivator behind him, and looked up to ask again.

"Boss, I really want to ask, which direction do we go towards the Heling Mountains?"

While busy working, the shopkeeper answered Luo Huanzhen's question: "You want to go to the Heling Mountains? Just keep heading east. When you see a continuous forest that stretches for hundreds of miles, that's the Heling Mountains."

Luo Zhenhuan nodded. "Thank you, boss!"

Then, stepping onto his little lotus flower, he headed east while munching on a large meat bun.

The aroma of meat filled the air.

The juice from the steamed bun seeped into Luo Zhenhuan's chubby fingers, filling the spaces between them. Luo Zhenhuan licked it contentedly and squinted his eyes.

It turns out.

The steamed buns in Zhongzhou are definitely tastier than those in Dongzhou.

Perhaps the flesh of spirit beasts is more tender and delicious in this environment?

Unfortunately, there are no more spirit stones.

Otherwise, Luo could have eaten eight more.

Luo Zhen licked his lips, somewhat regretful.

Just then, a gust of wind appeared beside them.

Luo Huanzhen looked up and saw two cultivators dressed in blue or higher, a man and a woman, riding a eagle with a very long beard. They had ordinary and kind appearances, and they smiled when they looked at Luo Huanzhen.

The male cultivator smiled and asked, "Young friend, are you going to the Heling Mountains? Are you going alone?"

Luo Huanzhen raised his eyes and answered seriously, "Yes, I'm alone. I'm going to the Heling Mountains to find someone."

The male cultivator smiled and said, "My Daoist partner and I are also going to the Heling Mountains. If you don't mind, we can travel together. My surname is Tong, you can call me Brother Tong."

"My surname is Hua, you can just call me Sister Hua." The female cultivator who called herself Sister Hua said, while magically producing a paper package from behind her.

The aroma is tangy.

Luo Huanzhen's eyes lit up.

Sister Hua noticed Luo Zhenhuan's gaze fixed on the meat bun, and her smile widened.

She reached out and opened the paper package, and sure enough, there were three large meat buns inside.

Sister Hua handed it to Luo Huanzhen, "Eat up, child. We were just queuing up for steamed buns there, and we saw you queuing alone. One bun definitely wouldn't be enough, so I took the liberty of buying you a few."

Luo Zhen's mouth dropped open in surprise: "You bought steamed buns for Zhenzhen?"

She happily accepted it, saying, "Thank you!"

Luo was actually about to put it in his mouth.

Brother Tong and Sister Hua stared at Luo Huanzhen eating the steamed bun, a calculating glint flashing in their eyes.

Became...

However, just an inch away from Luo Zhenhuan's mouth, she suddenly stopped and patted her head.

"I almost forgot, Master Yun Yao warned Zhenzhen not to eat food from strangers without first confirming whether it is poisonous."

Brother Tong and Sister Hua's expressions changed instantly.

"Hehe, we're just kind-hearted, how could we possibly poison the buns? Young friend, you really want to hide."

Luo Zhenzhen nodded. "Zhenzhen also thinks you two wouldn't poison him, since you both seem like good people."

"But Zhenzhen must also listen to Master's words."

So, Luo Huanzhen took a hairpin off her head—this was specially made for her by Duan Qianchui, which could identify 9,999 kinds of common poisons in the world.

Luo Huanzhen poked all three buns with his hairpin.

She opened her eyes wide and tried to see the condition of the hairpin.

There's no change, so it seems to be non-toxic.

Luo Huanzhen smiled and put the hairpin back into her hair. She sat on the little lotus flower, swinging her little feet, eating a big steamed bun while talking to the two people next to her with her eyes crinkled.

"Thank you so much! I've been really craving this bun..."

Her mouth was stuffed with steamed buns, and her speech was slurred.

Brother Tong and Sister Hua breathed a sigh of relief, exchanged a glance, and both saw the same meaning in each other's eyes:

Fortunately, they didn't use a common poison.

It is a strange poison that can make people drowsy but has no side effects.

Ordinary methods simply cannot detect it.

After finishing three steamed buns, Luo was indeed a little sleepy.

They had been traveling for quite a while, so Luo Zhenzhen rubbed her eyes with her little hands, turned to Sister Hua and Brother Tong and said, "Thank you for the steamed buns. Zhenzhen is sleepy and can't walk with you anymore, so we'll stop here for now."

She had just used her divine sense to check, and there was a dilapidated temple not far ahead.

She was very tired, so she could make do with sleeping in the dilapidated temple for the night.

We'll continue our journey to the Ichiyo Sect tomorrow.

As Luo Huanzhen yawned and floated down, she didn't see the deep calculation flash across the eyes of the male and female cultivators on Ling Ying's back.

They were kidnappers from Zhongzhou.

Known as the "Children's Flower Double Crutches"

They usually specialize in trafficking cultivators. The cultivators they target include men and women, young people and children.

Beautiful cultivators, regardless of gender, are all sold to evil sects, such as the Joyful Union Sect or the Silver Moon Sect, to serve as their sexual partners.

Those who weren't particularly pretty but had good potential were drugged, their dantian and spiritual roots were harvested, and they were sold to the black market at high prices.

After all, there are quite a few powerful cultivators in this world whose descendants lack outstanding aptitude.

In fact, the two of them had been secretly watching Luo Huanzhen since he came down from the City of the Divine Palace.

He followed her for a long time until he confirmed that she was really alone before he decided to make his move.