The scene fell silent again.
A little while later, Gan Zhen finally spoke:
"I don't understand what you're talking about."
"What happened at Tianhe Sect..."
As she spoke, Xiao Xi'er paused again:
"Will soon happen at Luoling Sect too, is that it?"
This was no baseless guess.
Over the past six years, in Xiao Xi'er's eyes, Gan Zhen had shown no interest whatsoever in the outside world.
But today, he had suddenly summoned her.
And asked her about what had happened at Tianhe Sect.
Xiao Xi'er wasn't stupid.
She understood that Gan Zhen wouldn't suddenly ask her this question for no reason.
In recent years, internal strife like the upheaval at Tianhe Sect had occurred time and again in Kunwu Continent's cultivation world.
No—or perhaps this wasn't internal strife at all.
Instead, it was the interference of outside forces operating at an even higher level.
Her master had come to find her today and suddenly asked her this question. In her view, there could only be one explanation.
Someone had approached Gan Zhen.
Gan Zhen had ended up in his current predicament entirely because of Cong Linshan and Ren Feng.
Given that, if someone within Luoling Sect wanted to stir up a rebellion, Gan Zhen was undoubtedly an ideal person to win over.
In other words, Luoling Sect would likely face a rebellion soon as well.
And her master, Gan Zhen, had already been approached and persuaded.
Now, he was asking her what she thought.
That was how Xiao Xi'er saw it.
"Perhaps."
Gan Zhen replied calmly. He neither confirmed nor denied it.
But anyone with eyes could see that his very attitude was confirmation enough.
Xiao Xi'er understood that too.
"...Master, you want to get involved in this mess, don't you?"
She asked.
"What I want doesn't matter."
Gan