Li Muyun's heart tightened, but she remembered Li Tianming's warning and answered cautiously, "Holy Governor, Li Tianming is my disciple. He has only just completed the fourth stage of the Young Emperor Trial, so he should be in his cultivation palace."
"Li Tianming is your disciple? Then you must be Li Muyun. I've heard of you. I hear you're quite close to him?" Wei Shendao studied Li Muyun with interest.
"I'm humbled that my name has reached your ears, Holy Governor. I've only done what an imperial tutor should. If you wish to see Tianming, I can take you to Destiny Palace." Li Muyun's face had gone slightly pale.
"Very well. Let's go," Wei Shendao said lightly.
Li Tianming heard Silver Dust and Aurora's account of Wei Shendao, along with her intention to seek him out, and waited quietly in Destiny Palace.
They had never met before. He wasn't about to take her show of goodwill at face value.
"Silver Dust," Li Tianming said, "be ready to tell Little Fish to activate the Realm Starball at any moment. Don't let your guard down until Wei Shendao leaves."
"Got it. Little Fish says not to worry," Silver Dust replied from the Companion Space.
A short while later, Li Muyun brought Wei Shendao to Muyun Palace. Li Tianming did not rush out to meet them; he did not want to expose Silver Dust's existence before someone so powerful.
"Tianming, the Holy Governor is here to see you. Come out and greet her," Li Muyun called.
Only then did Li Tianming emerge. The gentle beauty of the Lifespirit Imperial Clan was more mature than Wei Wuji, both in her looks and in her shapely figure.
Wei Wuji, after all, was still a child under ten thousand years old. There was a willful,