Joint Plan

"What else could it be? We just came to talk it over with you, about the situation we discussed before. But who would've thought you'd go into seclusion to cultivate?"

"Exactly. Back then, we were thinking that if it didn't come to that, we could still give it some thought. But after you went and stirred things up like this, suddenly this matter feels... kind of strange."

Liu Xi felt a little awkward after hearing them.

They said that only an incompetent master would make his disciples handle such matters. And from beginning to end, Zhou Qinglan had never uttered a single complaint.

"Enough. Did you two come here just to trade barbs? What exactly is the plan? Don't talk about my master here—he's already done his best."

After hearing him defend his master, the two of them did not know what to say for a moment.

After all, there was truly nothing wrong with what he said.

But if there really was something to be said, then it was still different from before.

"The situation most likely to happen definitely won't be here, so what are you all so anxious about?"

He had been rather serious before, thinking that this situation truly did not matter.

But now he understood. Judging by what he had seen this time, everyone had far too little information and too few details under their grasp.

"Then what do you think we should do next? We can't joke about something like this. Not everyone knows much."

They merely wanted to understand the atmosphere of it all, or perhaps they only knew that it was unreasonable without knowing why it had been done.

"Then we'll make further plans. It's not as if everyone has to have an idea."

If there had been any gap in his