Seeing the two senior and junior sisters from Suzhen Heaven start arguing out of nowhere after getting along just fine, Pei Ling stood off to the side with his scalp crawling, not daring to say a word.
He was afraid they might remember there was still a living person here.
He desperately wanted to flee, but Yan Minghua was deliberately blocking the alchemy room's only exit. If he broke through the wall... Miao City's City Protection Array was still active. Without Dou Dai's help to open the array, he couldn't get out!
As for feigning death, he'd already used that trick on Yan Minghua once. She definitely wouldn't fall for it again.
Teleport straight into "Lesser Freedom Heaven"?
That was an option, but what would he do after coming back out?
He couldn't stay in "Lesser Freedom Heaven" for thirty years...
Just as Pei Ling was frantic with worry, racking his brains for a solution, Yan Minghua's voice suddenly sounded in his ear: "Wang Gao, since you've already done that sort of thing to me, why would you go after my junior sister too?!"
What...
He hadn't gone after her!
Pei Ling broke into a cold sweat. He was about to explain when Qiao Ciguang transmitted to him at the same time: "Fellow Daoist Pei, what is your relationship with Senior Sister Yan now? Why does she care so much about you?"
Ah... It was all because he'd been bewitched by the "strange phenomenon"...
Sweat slid down the edge of his mask, but Pei Ling had no mind to care about it. He hurriedly transmitted, "Fellow Daoist Yan, it's not what you think. Your junior sister and I are completely innocent. Nothing happened..."
His relationship with Yan Minghua was hardly proper either, yet for some reason, he felt as if