Qing Lian eagerly started swishing lamb slices in the hot pot again, then popped them into her mouth without dipping them in sauce.
"Too hot!"
Bai? was both amused and exasperated. "Slow down. If it's too hot, have something to drink."
Luo Yan unhurriedly picked up a slice of lamb dipped in sauce, put it into his mouth, and chewed slowly before speaking.
"What do you make of the two Heavenly Ghosts that appeared this time?"
Qing Lian was blowing on a meatball. "What about them?"
Luo Yan said, "After they displayed the Ghost Person Stance, they weren't discovered by the Primordial Tent right away. Don't you find that strange?"
Qing Lian bit into the meatball as she spoke. "What's strange about it? Hong Zhuang has the Hundred Faces Disguise, and I have the Jade Smoke Scales. Both can temporarily fool the Primordial Tent."
"Perhaps it wouldn't be surprising if those two had similar means."
Bai? raised her head. "Do you think they might have come through a Jambudvipa Gate, just like the foreign races that descended last time?"
"When those two foreign races descended, they were able to move about normally beneath the Primordial Tent."
"This means that anything descending through a Jambudvipa Gate can temporarily shield itself from the Primordial Tent's perception."
Qing Lian immediately looked toward Bai?. "That's certainly possible."
"If it can bring foreign races or our own kind here, that curse tool must be something of a very high level. It wouldn't be strange for it to temporarily shield them from the Primordial Tent's perception."
Bai? lifted her chopsticks but made no move to use them. After a moment of thought, she said, "Whether it was that Heavenly Ghost called Zhe Kui back then or the two Heavenly Ghosts that appeared in Ziyang Underground City