"A young man, no matter how monstrously talented, surely wouldn't dare disregard even a Dou Saint," Star-Seizing Old Ghost calculated inwardly. "As long as I make him see Soul Hall's foundations, let him understand just how colossal an existence he is opposing, then offer him enough benefits, I refuse to believe he won't be tempted."
He was at least seventy percent confident. After all, Soul Hall had Dou Saints overseeing it. The might of a single hall was enough to strike terror throughout the Central Plains. How could a young man who had only recently emerged from the Northwest Continent understand what true power was? Once he felt that irresistible pressure, he would understand that cooperating with Soul Hall was the only wise choice.
As he pondered this, a calm voice suddenly sounded behind him. "Looking for me?"
Star-Seizing Old Ghost's body stiffened as he abruptly turned around.
A young man had appeared three zhang behind him at some unknown moment, standing quietly in place and watching him with an indifferent gaze. The young man wore a simple white robe, his posture tall and straight, his bearing composed. He looked like nothing more than an ordinary passerby. Yet every hair on Star-Seizing Old Ghost's body stood on end—he had not sensed in the slightest how the other man had appeared!
"Who are you?" Star-Seizing Old Ghost suppressed the alarm in his heart and demanded in a low voice.
"Weren't you looking for me?" Lin Yao smiled faintly. "Jia Nan Academy, Lin Yao."
Star-Seizing Old Ghost's pupils shrank slightly. He heard the composure and certainty in the other man's tone, the confidence possessed only by an expert who felt not the slightest tension even before a powerful foe. But Star-Seizing Old Ghost had weathered countless storms in the Central Plains, and