"What's wrong?" The Dao-robed wife looked as though she knew the girl, and immediately took her by the arm. "What are you doing here?"
I stood there dumbfounded. The Dao-robed wife was not merely shrewd—she was sly as a fox. The girl seemed startled by this way of meeting, but she did not pull her hand back. After all, the difference between their cultivation levels was far too great. Even with her cultivation suppressed to the limit, the girl was still at the Dao Tribulation Realm. The gap between them was worlds apart; it would be no exaggeration to say that she could be shaken into green smoke with a casual gesture.
So, no matter how strange such an unguarded physical contact was, it could not arouse the slightest displeasure in the girl. Instead, she even looked rather astonished and delighted as she said with a smile, "Sister Six Paths, I heard there was a celestial phenomenon here, so I hurried over from Qingli. I didn't expect you to arrive before me. But this isn't good—if you withdrew from that place, won't the other Immortal Venerables make trouble for you?"
"Look at me. Do I look like I came out whole?" The Dao-robed wife continued to lie through her teeth with a beaming smile.
The girl seemed a little perplexed for a moment, but soon said, "You're not usually like this. Today, you've actually done something that surprised me. And besides, walking so openly through Taiwei Immortal Land's market, don't you know that some immortals might still recognize you? If Taiwei Immortal Venerable finds out, she'll gossip about you in front of the other Immortal Venerables again."
"I'm wearing a veil. Could anyone still recognize me?" the Dao-robed wife replied with a smile.
"How could no one?" the girl said