Night Talk (Part 2)

Yet Li's actual experiences had far exceeded Venerable Shengtian's imagination.

Not only had she grown up healthy and learned how to conceal herself within the mundane world, she had even used the Mind Nature Technique to set her sights on the Bureau of Military Affairs.

Among demonkind, that truly counted as brazen recklessness.

And she had actually succeeded once!

But in Qingshan Town, Li had run headlong into a wall. A sentinel was essentially an insurmountable mountain to a Fox Demon. By all reason, she should have died in Green Mountain, like most demons did.

Unexpectedly, a human sorcerer had hidden Li away out of curiosity about demons.

Hearing this, Venerable Shengtian both broke into a cold sweat for her and became deeply suspicious and intensely wary of that young sorcerer—

Suspicious. Far too suspicious!

What did he mean, curiosity about demons? What Qi Sense User had not heard tales of demons? He had not even crossed the threshold into becoming a sorcerer, so what gave him the nerve to deal with a demon so directly? If Li had not been personally taught by her, but had been a true wild demon, he probably would not even know how to write the word "death."

Considering that Li had still been ignorant of human nature at the time and might have been easy to manipulate, perhaps he had spotted precisely that and deliberately put on such an act, letting Li fall into a trap called curiosity!

"Wait," Venerable Shengtian said, coughing twice. "Did he ask you to help him complete some challenge in the Scholar Examination, calling it a mutually beneficial collaboration?"

Li scratched her ear. "He did not emphasize the Scholar Examination. He just asked me to stay with him, saying he wanted to study how demons came to be.