Yun Qingzi kept both hands behind his back, looking like an ordinary kindergarten gatekeeper. He leisurely greeted Mo Ran first, then smiled as he walked a circle around the "team" Mo Ran had brought. Finally, he stopped beside the three "evil cultivators" in the middle of the group and looked them up and down twice.
"The three of you look rather unfamiliar... You don't seem like members of our orthodox sects."
Elder Ku Ting's dry face was no longer stiff, the Blood Young Master's elegant bearing was no longer held up, and Bone Gnawing Immortal's originally feigned clear gaze had become genuinely clear, as though it had been fitted with a level-twelve filter. The three of them bent over together and saluted. The Blood Young Master spoke first. "P-Please, Senior, you jest. The three of us have indeed committed some errors, but we abandoned the darkness and joined the light long ago. We have reformed and now wholeheartedly seek goodness, cultivating only the orthodox path. We are willing to go through fire and water for True Lord Yu Sheng, even if it means dying ten thousand times..."
Yun Qingzi nodded. "All right. There's a battle going on outside right now. In a moment, you can go through fire and water with this old man."
Bone Gnawing Immortal's iron mask immediately creaked, and the half of his face visible outside the mask twisted.
The smile on Elder Ku Ting's face instantly stiffened as well.
Yun Qingzi merely glanced at the Blood Young Master and casually tossed out, "You sound like some sissy."
He then stopped paying attention to the three of them and turned directly to Mo Ran. "Mr. Yu hasn't returned from his outing, but he previously told you to handle something. How did the assignment go?"
Mo Ran did