"Nu Nu knows she was wrong. Nu Nu wants to leave with Young Master." Nu Nu put on a pitiful expression, but I merely snorted, withdrew the hand I had been about to reach toward her head, and stood up. "You still dare deceive this young master! If you had hesitated even for a moment, I would have taken you with me! Yet you went so far as to say you were willing on your own! If I believed you, wouldn't I have wasted all these years of my life?"
"Haha, Young Master Ju, please don't be angry. This girl is simply like that by nature—everything she says is the opposite of what she means. She's a complete and utter liar." Tong Ci hurriedly tried to soothe me. He had no idea that I had secretly added a layer of Blood Garment to Nu Nu. The moment I and a group of ghost slaves and Human Immortals left the city, she would erupt.
With the Blood Garment's augmentation, Nu Nu actually froze for a moment—a rare occurrence. But as a professional-grade liar, she quickly suppressed her astonishment and did her best to keep her cultivation restrained.
Entrusting such an important task to this little girl was partly because I had plans of my own. I wanted to test her true strength while putting her deceptive talents to use in saving people, letting her feel that wielding such power could also be righteous and thereby correcting her twisted worldview.
With Tong Ci escorting me, I couldn't be bothered to return to the little courtyard. Instead, I headed straight out of the city. Nu Nu probably wouldn't be able to hold back for long, after all. She certainly wouldn't obediently wait for the ancestor to arrive; if she did, none of us