Spirit Transformation Secrets, Zhengyuan's Promise (Seeking Monthly Tickets, Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Inside the tavern, lotus leaves were blooming in full splendor, lotus flowers rising one by one from swathes of green. Accompanied by the breeze, they swayed gently in the air.

Their delicate fragrance filled the entire space.

Yet Ye Jingcheng had no mood to appreciate them. He looked at Xing Yuan True Monarch, who was looking back at him.

The anger he had imagined did not appear, nor did the string of questions he had expected.

Instead, it was as if they were two close friends who had not seen each other in ages, sizing each other up without blinking.

That only left Ye Jingcheng even more surprised and unable to fathom him.

He considered himself well-seasoned by experience. Even the elders of the Ye Family might not necessarily have handled things better than he could now.

But at this moment, he truly could not see through the Xing Yuan True Monarch before him.

The man should have been angry.

Even if he was not angry, he should at least have given the explanation Ye Jingcheng had expected.

After all, what Ye Jingcheng had said just now had practically been a direct accusation that the other man was about to ruin his path of cultivation.

Cultivators valued clarity of Dao Heart in their cultivation. Especially for stubborn cultivators, if they made a genuine promise and failed to fulfill it, it truly could affect their future cultivation.

And ruining someone's path was no less hateful than murdering their father.

Moreover, as the party being recruited, Ye Jingcheng had emerged from seclusion and met the lower-ranked Prefect Lu, yet had not gone to see the two Prefecture Lords. He had even made the three of them conceal their identities before coming to Xiao Mountain Prefecture.

The three of them had probably also