Niu Youdao glanced at the girl and was about to speak when Dan Hailong raised a hand and barked first, "When adults are speaking, it is not your place to interrupt."
He was no fool. He was an outsider at Skywalking Sect as well; if they truly needed a guide, they would not have come looking for him. They were clearly deliberately picking him.
Dan Xian'er pursed her lips and fell silent.
Dan Hailong cupped his hands toward Xi Haitang. "Sect Master Xi..."
Xi Haitang raised a hand, signaling them to go ahead, while giving Niu Youdao another look. This man had clearly not come here for a leisurely stroll. Besides, what they were doing was not something too many people should know about, and he did not wish to deal with too many irrelevant outsiders. Yet this man had taken the initiative—what exactly was he after? Why did it feel as though he deliberately wanted to draw Dan Hailong away alone? Could there be something more to Dan Hailong?
He did not know that Dan Hailong was connected to Black Peony. Back in the day, Niu Youdao had not been worth his attention. Black Peony had already died while Niu Youdao was still a nobody in his eyes. By the time he began paying attention, he would hardly dig into some insignificant person who had died long ago.
Not to mention him—even Chao Jing himself could not remember the name of the woman he had toyed with. He had been with far too many women to remember how many. Only when disaster struck and Niu Youdao reminded him did he vaguely recall that such a person seemed to have existed, that there had seemingly been something between them.
Seeing that Xi Haitang did not object, Dan Hailong asked Niu