At the summit of a cliff.
Su Yi stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the sky as the mountain wind made his azure robes flap loudly.
"Fellow Daoist, what exactly... were you doing earlier?"
Po Suo could not help but ask.
She truly could not make sense of Su Yi's earlier actions.
Su Yi could not help but laugh. "If even you can't figure it out, do you think that Nine Netherworld Crow has the brains to?"
Po Suo froze for a moment, then seemed to finally understand. "Setting up a smokescreen and luring the snake out of its hole?"
Su Yi said, "It's a very crude trick, but it is often the most useful one. According to you, the Nine Netherworld Crow is extremely cunning and vigilant. The moment it senses danger, it will flee at once. If we want to force it to reveal itself, naturally, we cannot startle it."
After a pause, he continued, "Of course, if it were only that pathetic trap, the Nine Netherworld Crow would surely disdain it. That's why I used the elk carrion as bait and deliberately provoked it."
"Everyone else fears it like the plague, yet I did precisely the opposite. What do you think it would make of that?"
Hearing this, Po Suo said instinctively, "It would certainly grow suspicious, yet it would be unable to guess your true intentions, Fellow Daoist."
Su Yi nodded. "The longer one lives, the heavier one's thoughts become. When it cannot figure out the reason, it will naturally come knocking obediently."
Po Suo tucked the snow-white hair by her ear behind it and said, "But what if it doesn't come?"
Su Yi countered, "If someone with cultivation like mine used such a pathetic trap to provoke you, and you could not