To her surprise, all three shook their heads at her words.
Aunt Lian even gave a wry smile. "That's actually what we want to know, too. But the three of us have spent days pondering it and still can't make heads or tails of it."
Then she seemed to remember something.
She paused before asking another question. "By the way, did you meet anyone particularly unusual while you were out this time, or anyone even you couldn't see through?"
"Anyone particularly unusual, or even I couldn't see through?"
Li Qingyan froze for a moment, then immediately caught on.
"Aunt Lian, are you saying my escape wasn't luck, but that someone deliberately intervened to save me?"
Aunt Lian smiled.
"It's possible. That's why I'm asking."
"I keep feeling that mysterious expert's intervention was a little abrupt... perhaps the Primordial Mist Demon wasn't their only target!"
Li Qingyan couldn't help laughing. "How could that be?"
"Aunt Lian, I didn't meet anyone unusual like you described, or anyone even I couldn't see through... oh, right. If we're talking about unusual, one person might barely qualify. But he's only a Dao Sage. It couldn't possibly have been him."
Lord Cang, Uncle Dao, and Aunt Lian all brightened at her words.
"Never mind whether it was him. First, tell us what was unusual about that Dao Sage."
Li Qingyan was a little speechless.
How could she fail to realize that Lord Cang and the other two clearly suspected that man was the mysterious expert who had struck the Primordial Mist Demon?
But how could that be possible?
She wouldn't believe he was that mysterious expert in ten thousand years.
"It couldn't have been him."
"His name is Li Yun. He's the man Li Xiuyi and Huang Yu said they met at the Four Seas Restaurant