Cultivators often needed to face their inner selves and reality more directly.
In that regard, Liu Shuang was clearly doing very well.
She had no girlish princess fantasies about her circumstances, nor was she preparing to rebel for no reason.
Until she had enough power to ignore the rules, protecting what she cherished meant calmly accepting some things as fate.
An Jing's goodwill was already quite obvious, and there was a solid reason for her to show it.
Professor Fu had never said so outright, but it was easy to guess that Ji Yicheng's death had a lot to do with An Jing's behavior.
So when "Lu Ming of the Rebirth Club" appeared at Silver Mist Manor and made those later moves, An Jing had immediately made a firm decision. When it came to the Gospel Group, she had openly taken her side.
It was an unspoken understanding, bound together by Ji Yicheng's death.
And given the circumstances now, aside from maintaining an air of mystery in front of her assistant, it was clearly time to respond to that understanding.
The matter of the Sword in the Stone wouldn't be a secret, any more than the conflict between An Jing and the Siren.
But making sure An Jing learned the news before anyone else was undoubtedly a gesture of goodwill, much like the warning she had given him ahead of everyone else.
Besides, come to think of it, all the cards in his hand seemed to have been dealt to him by the person sitting right in front of him.
His gaze discreetly swept over Fu Qian's face before Ji Liushuang finally looked at the doodle in his hand.
It was shaped like an axe, with intricate decorations.
"What's this?"
"Could be a Supernatural Item. It once chopped off