White mist billowed.
Gu Qingshan and Oldest returned to the Secret Chamber.
"What did you think of what I just said?" Oldest asked.
"It was all right," Gu Qingshan replied.
"All right? Then what did you think of her attitude toward me just now?" Oldest asked again.
Gu Qingshan glanced at him and thought in silence.
This won't do.
How can this possibly work?
He gritted his teeth and decided to be brutally honest. "Oldest, if the highest score for the relationship between two people is ten, I'd say her attitude toward you was only a one."
Oldest sighed.
Gu Qingshan patted him on the shoulder. "Don't be discouraged yet. She certainly acted like it was a one, but that doesn't mean it really was."
Oldest looked at him. "What else could it be?"
Gu Qingshan answered solemnly, "There were too many people around just now. Maybe she was too embarrassed to kill you outright, so there's still a chance it was zero."
Oldest looked deeply impressed.
The crow listened nearby, thoroughly awed.
This kid's words cut deeper than his sword.
"Mm, that's about right," Oldest murmured.
"Hm? What do you mean?" Gu Qingshan asked in surprise.
Oldest opened the Book of Fate and silently recited a spell.
An image appeared on the blank pages—
It showed Shelter Island.
After the brief disturbance just now, Reneedol and her followers were still gathered in the same place.
She was waiting for the Giant Eyeball.
"I left behind a trace of the Seal Corpse's aura there," Oldest said. "No one else can detect it, but that eyeball should be able to."
"What happens when it detects it?" Gu Qingshan asked.
"It'll probably search frantically for that aura, wanting to destroy everything and find out where it came from," Oldest replied.
He gently