"What?"
"You don't know her?"
Dongxuan Prefecture, inside a tavern.
Li Yun and Ding Baisheng sat facing each other, and by chance began talking about the eight-hundred-year-old Old Demon Hag of White Emperor City.
Ding Baisheng was left stunned.
Li Yun was stunned as well.
Both wore baffled expressions.
"Since Brother Ding doesn't know her, why did she put on an act in front of me as though she knew you well and wanted to give you some face?"
"I don't know. If you hadn't brought it up, I wouldn't have known there was a White Emperor City expert hidden in Green Peak Mountain."
Ding Baisheng shook his head.
Then he added, "Perhaps your performance caught the kid's attention. She deliberately used this method to make you lower your guard, intending to befriend you?"
Li Yun could not help but laugh.
"Brother Ding, don't tease me. What kind of performance did I have back then? Before her, I wasn't even worth an ant. Why would she want to befriend me... hmm?"
At that point, Li Yun's voice abruptly halted.
He suddenly thought of the Classic of Virtue.
He remembered that, in order to fool that eight-hundred-year-old Old Demon Hag, he had fabricated a story and recited the first chapter of the Classic of Virtue before her.
Could it have been the contents of that first chapter which caused the Old Demon Hag to make some sort of misjudgment?
Only then did Li Yun remember that he had yet to mention to Ding Baisheng how the Wuwei Sutra could secretly affect one's control over their own mind.
Their relationship was far from ordinary now.
He should find an opportunity to pass part of the Classic of Virtue on to Ding Baisheng.
However, they were in a tavern now, surrounded by too