"Your palace's Red Leaf Fairy is Lin's sworn younger sister. I happened to pass through this place this time, so I came especially to pay her a visit," Lin Xuan said calmly. His entire body hovered in midair, and an air befitting an expert naturally spread from between his brows.
"Red Leaf Fairy?" The man froze. The name was a little unfamiliar. But then, the scale of Nine Immortals Palace was simply too vast; even fellow disciples never having met one another was entirely normal.
Still, this person was also a shrewd and perceptive fellow. He immediately bowed to Lin Xuan, an apologetic look on his face. "How about this—Senior, please come sit for a while at our humble palace. Since we know that fairy's title, I believe we'll be able to find her very quickly..."
Before he finished speaking, a cry of surprise rang out beside his ear.
"Eh, Red Leaf Fairy, it seems..."
The speaker was the Nascent Soul Late Stage female cultivator behind him, but her voice came to an abrupt stop there, as if she had thought of something terrifying. Deep in her eyes, a few traces of panic actually appeared.
Lin Xuan frowned and immediately turned his head. "What? Fellow Daoist seems to have heard my sworn sister's name. Could it be that you know my little sister?"
"No. I heard wrong. How could this junior possibly have such fortune as to know Senior's sworn sister?" The woman hurriedly shook her head, yet her gaze dodged about, and she did not dare look Lin Xuan in the eye at all. Even her words came out stammering.
"Heard wrong?" Lin Xuan rubbed his forehead with one hand, and his eyes narrowed slightly. This lie was far too clumsy. Even an ordinary person would have been filled