If it had been an outsider, after being bluffed by a few minor details, they would at most have seen a trace of emptiness on Jiang Qi's face.
After all, she was a seasoned veteran. No matter how turbulent her emotions were, she likely would not reveal them through body language.
But Xu Xiaoshou was different.
He merely glanced at the information panel and saw the frenzied pop-ups of "Suspected" and "Speculated Upon," and he understood.
Yes, those actions just now had been deliberate.
Xu Xiaoshou was not really Ba Zunan. How could he not know that Jiang Xian's target was not Lei Shuangxing, but Mu Zixi? Thus, everything he did had not only followed Jiang Xian's words step by step on the surface; in secret, he had also used a subtle psychological gesture to strike at Jiang Qi from the side, making her doubt her own train of thought.
So, under such circumstances, was there any need to continue bombarding her relentlessly?
No!
After all, too much was as bad as too little.
Xu Xiaoshou did not even glance at Jiang Qi. Indeed, he had been targeting this person all along and had never placed Jiang Xian in his eyes.
Yet between experts, attacks were always launched in the most unguarded moments.
Sometimes, that kind of blow was the most devastating.
"What did the woman you mentioned look like?" Xu Xiaoshou asked as usual, as though none of the hidden exchanges just now had ever happened.
Jiang Xian had not noticed anything at all. His entire mind was set on shifting the Eighth Sword Immortal's attention away from himself, so he immediately answered.
"Calling her a woman would not be quite right. She should be a little girl, with twin ponytails and green clothes. She is from First Pavilion