The moment Lu Yang finished speaking, the entire world fell silent.
Inside the shop, True Person Qihe, who had been fiddling with an array disk, abruptly stopped. He slowly raised his head and gave Lu Yang a long, deep look.
"As expected of a True Person of our Sacred Sect."
Lu Yang accepted the praise calmly.
To judge whether someone was good or bad, one should not look at what they thought or said, but at what they did. That way, many things naturally became clear.
Although True Person Qihe had said so much and put on an act of caring for Lu Yang, what had he actually done? He had used an array to seal off the entire shop. His excuse was quite good—using an array to trap the rogue cultivator True Persons of Secret Pavilion Street—but was that not also trapping Lu Yang?
If True Person Qihe had truly been sincere,
then he should not have set up the array alone. He should have invited Lu Yang to arrange it together. Yet he had not done so. In Lu Yang's eyes, that meant he harbored sinister intentions!
"What a pity."
At that moment, a voice suddenly rang out from outside the shop. Then a brawny man strode in, his body overflowing with dense, blood-tinged Radiance.
"Since you saw through it, why expose it?"
The brawny man laughed thunderously. "If you had fled without a word just now, we might not have been able to stop you in time."
"Kuigang, do not be careless."
A soft, seductive voice arrived with a fragrant breeze. A beautiful woman in palace robes walked into the shop and said, "This man is, after all, a True Person of the Sacred Sect."
"No need for Gouyue to tell me that."
The brawny man gave