The wild Divine Craftsman Long Silou was brought back to Mingde Hall by Jing Hongchen.
Before they returned, however, Long Silou finally could not resist asking who had leaked his whereabouts.
When Ji Juechen told him that the person who had exposed him was the young girl he had looked down on the most, casually spilling the information as though she were complaining about a scammer, Long Silou fell silent. He stroked his beard, then patted Ji Juechen on the shoulder.
"Hey, you'd better be careful in the future. One day, she might screw you over again under the pretense of doing it for your own good."
Long Silou cared quite a bit about Ji Juechen—or rather, about the compatibility between Ji Juechen and the longsword in his hands.
Although Long Silou had indeed been moved by Ji Juechen's Innate Sword Heart and, wanting the best for him, used Spirit Forging techniques to guide the spirituality within the metal, teaching Ji Juechen how to make the aura of his Martial Soul resonate with the metal to make up for his congenital shortcomings.
He had also genuinely wanted to observe an experiment that none of his predecessors had completed, to see whether a Martial Soul could be deliberately altered through such a method.
"I don't have any relationship with her, though?" Ji Juechen's gaze was clear and foolish, making Long Silou relax.
A child with an Innate Sword Heart like this would not have his mind completely clouded by those two words, love, like an ordinary person—unless someone put a curse on him or brainwashed him.
Inside Mingde Hall, Chen Ming's two teammates, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, had been waiting for quite some time. Jing Ziyan and the team's financial backer, the chubby support-type soul master Xu Shuangping, were also