"Secret..."
Mu Rong Ying repeated the word softly. After a long pause, he seemed to hesitate over how to say it.
He had not noticed his team member Wang Chao's little move. To him, bringing along a Sovereign was not for assistance, but merely because there were some things he wanted to warn him about.
"Wang Chao, brother here has a few heartfelt words I want to tell you..." Though Mu Rong Ying stood in darkness, he still sounded somewhat guilty, utterly lacking confidence.
Xu Xiaoshou secretly frowned. He had caught a different scent in those words.
Judging by Mu Rong Ying's behavior, perhaps this fellow did not harbor the murderous, silence-the-witness thoughts Xu Xiaoshou had imagined.
But Xu Xiaoshou did not dare lower his guard, fearing that the other side was feigning weakness. Thus, in Wang Chao's voice, he said with a trace of pain, "Brother Mu Rong, it's just the two of us now. Say whatever you need to say. It's just... the way you keep swallowing your words is making me terribly uncomfortable. Could it be that I, Wang Chao, did something to wrong you at some point?"
"Eh, nothing of the sort!" Mu Rong Ying rubbed his hands together and chuckled. Then, while doing something that made Xu Xiaoshou's eyes nearly fall out, he bent closer and said, "About what happened earlier. Didn't the two of us watch the battle together beneath that huge rock?"
"Mm-hm?" Xu Xiaoshou nodded. "So what?"
"Of course it matters!" Mu Rong Ying raised his voice and sneered. "You haven't become a captain yet, so you don't know how demanding Sword Immortal Rao is toward the captains of every squad. If..."
He paused and looked around. After confirming that no one was there, he lowered his voice and continued.
"If Sword