Sect Leader Zhu had come prepared with several plans. He had intended to start by applying force, then offering concessions, before revealing that Xu Yi had impersonated someone to intimidate him. After that, he would combine kindness with authority and gently bring the man around, until he was thoroughly filled with gratitude and guilt.
Who could have guessed that this fellow had thought of everything ahead of time, even seeing through his tricks? As for Sect Leader Zhu's purpose, the man had simply helped him achieve it—admitting he was part of the Donghua Immortal Sect and owed the sect a debt of gratitude.
Now that things had come to this, what more could the dignified sect leader possibly say?
At least he had achieved his goal. Every extra breath he spent with someone so clever it was downright irritating left the sect leader feeling ill at ease.
"Don't go. We haven't finished our tea."
Xu Yi hurriedly got up and grabbed Sect Leader Zhu.
As if! It had taken no small effort for the sect leader to grace him with his presence. If he let him get away so easily, he'd regret it for the rest of his life.
There was nothing Xu Yi lacked these days except knowledge—the kind that could lead him to higher realms, knowledge of the world as a whole.
He had tried hard to obtain all of that: from Mu Guangming, from Elder Bai, and from Yuan Tiansi. But what each of them told him often differed, with plenty of discrepancies.
Xu Yi could understand those inconsistencies. They simply arose because everyone's understanding was limited.
And the greatest source of those limitations was the height each person had reached.
Clearly, Sect Leader Zhu belonged to the highest echelon of this world. His understanding of the