Lin Yu had to admit that deceiving Nightless Sky Yong Lian was extremely difficult.
That was also one of the reasons he had unconsciously grown nervous when he saw Nightless Sky Yong Lian earlier. If he were simply meeting Nightless Sky Yong Lian, Lin Yu would certainly have taken it seriously and felt nervous, but he would not have been tense the entire time.
Lin Yu only became nervous before a "major performance."
To Lin Yu, deception was naturally a form of performance.
The Chosen of God he was trying to deceive was not merely a shrewd and experienced clever person. More importantly, she was also an expert at achieving her goals through lies. As the highest-ranking ruler of the City That Never Sleeps, the head of the Royal Nobles, and an exceptionally capable head at that, Nightless Sky Yong Lian naturally knew very well how to employ the "art of language."
What was even more troublesome was that Nightless Sky Yong Lian possessed an extremely broad range of knowledge and rich life experience. Moreover, she could be said to hold absolute power throughout the Barren Realm. It was difficult for even the slightest disturbance in an entire world to escape her notice.
This meant that in deception, the most important information gap was often one where Nightless Sky Yong Lian held the advantage and knew more.
Fortunately, part of the information Lin Yu was trying to deceive Nightless Sky Yong Lian about this time no longer belonged to this world. That gave him an opportunity to manufacture an information gap himself.
Otherwise, Lin Yu would not have made such calculations from the beginning. He would have simply and honestly tried to pry some information she was willing to tell him out of Nightless Sky Yong Lian.
But now...
Relying