This wasn't what I had expected!
Looking at the Great King's faintly smiling expression, Yun Zhongzi's heart tightened slightly. By his reckoning, shouldn't the Great King first ask where he had come from?
Yun Zhongzi had even prepared his answer.
If the Great King asked... he would say that he came from Cloudwater, that his heart was like white clouds, ever at ease, and his thoughts like flowing water, moving east and west. If the Great King spoke of clouds dispersing and water drying up, he still had, "When clouds scatter, the bright moon fills the sky; when water dries, the pearl appears"!
After such an exchange.
How could he fail to impress the Great King?
Once the Great King realized that he was an accomplished cultivator, bringing up the demonic aura within the Royal Palace would naturally follow!
"No matter..."
Yun Zhongzi thought to himself.
Then he cupped his hands again and said with a light smile:
"Great King, you know only that the Human Emperor is noble, but the Three Sects revere the Dao and virtue above all!"
"I am Yun Zhongzi of Mount Zhongnan, disciple of the Saint of the Expounding Sect. Among us Three Sects, only the Dao is supreme. Above, we pay no court to the Son of Heaven; below, we pay no visits to dukes and ministers. We shun the cage of worldly life and hide our traces, cast off mortal vulgarity and cultivate the truth..."
"..."
Yun Zhongzi was still speaking.
When he suddenly heard Wu Tian chuckle.
His string of profound, mysterious words was abruptly cut short. Raising his head and seeing Wu Tian's faintly smiling expression, his heart immediately sank...
Then Wu Tian said blandly:
"Daoist, your words are mistaken!"
"As I understand it... Grand Tutor Wen of my court is