The Opinions of a Thousand-Person Ruler

"T...Taibu, I... I... I am not familiar with illusion arrays!"

"Even if you are not, hold your ground! If any mistakes happen, you can report straight to the Shackling Prison!"

"Ah? That serious?!"

Qingque widened her eyes in a cute and terrified expression. Yet, out of understanding and trust toward her superior, she could only concentrate on maintaining the array without daring to slack off.

Feeling the illusion array stabilize and seeing Hui Xing remain entirely unresponsive, Fu Xuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Tell me, who are you?"

"I am naturally Hui Xing, Lord Taibu."

"You are Hui Xing?"

Fu Xuan narrowed her eyes, sizing up the tender and adorable young diviner, and asked instead:

"Then what is your task?"

"Naturally to maintain the Qiong Guan Array while meddling just a little to prevent Lord Taibu from discovering—hm?"

Hui Xing's stiff expression shifted. She glanced at the array patterns by her feet, adjusted the monocle on her face, and smiled sweetly.

"I should have been sufficiently cautious. Where did I reveal a flaw?"

"Hm?"

Fu Xuan wore a solemn expression, not expecting that the illusion array cast by herself and Qingque would be seen through so quickly.

Meanwhile, the sweetly smiling Hui Xing gazed at Fu Xuan with emotionless eyes and spoke:

"No, since you didn't notice me initially, the probability of subsequent detection should be even more negligible... Ah, truly, I shouldn't have played cards for fun earlier, ending up running into that monster with a flawless, airtight state of mind. Yet I clearly showed her enough respect by intentionally bypassing her beloved cards-playing friend and newly accepted disciple, so why is she still undermining me?"

"Fiend, what exactly are your intentions toward the Xianzhou?"

"As for this..."

Hui Xing's smile turned somewhat eerie and hair-raising. Then