Cao Erzhu's first feeling after hearing this was that it was rich with profound meaning. His second was that the knowledge had swiftly, quietly slipped out of his head.
He scratched his head and asked, "What does that mean?"
All right, I was playing the lute to a cow...
Jinren had no intention of singing Kui Leihan's praises or flattering Cao Erzhu over his cultivation.
Though that would certainly leave a favorable impression of him in the other party's mind.
But sincere people ought to meet one another with sincerity.
If Jinren wanted to, he had over ten thousand ways to trick Cao Erzhu into joining First Pavilion Under Heaven, making money for him and counting money for him without even realizing it.
In the end, however, he chose not to do that. He decided to be more straightforward.
"The dead are gone. Please accept my condolences and adapt to the change."
"Since you know Elder You Tu, and Elder You Tu is close friends with Mr. Siren, while I am Mr. Siren's student..."
"By that reckoning, you, Cao Erzhu, can be considered a friend of mine, Xu Xiaoshou's. I absolutely cannot let you sink into the mire, so I wanted to ask you something..."
Friend... Cao Erzhu was slightly dazed by the word.
He had always been the one to ask others to be friends. Rarely did anyone take the initiative to say they were his friend.
Even if this friend did not quite look like a person.
Cao Erzhu hugged the array-disc head a little closer.
He took nature as his friend and kept company with mountains and rivers. Even if this was merely a lump of iron that could speak, he would not look down on it.
In the end, he felt it was inappropriate to look