At that moment, Pei Ling had just undergone Myriad Tribulation Deity Transformation and escaped alive from the Eternal Night Desert. He had survived by the skin of his teeth, and after such dizzying highs and lows, his mind had yet to settle. He badly needed to let off steam.
Seeing Si Hong Qingyan putting on a one-woman show, he deliberately played along, saying, "So what if the Sect Master finds out? During the True Inheritor mission, I nearly lost my life at his hands. I'll get my revenge sooner or later!"
"For now, I'll collect a little interest from his lawfully wedded wife!"
"Madam, don't blame me for being rude. If anyone's to blame, it's you for being Su Lijing's wife!"
He mused that Si Hong Qingyan seemed to enjoy role-playing. As a disciple facing the Sect Master's Wife, he naturally had to play along a little.
Of course, Pei Ling wasn't worried in the slightest that these words would reach anyone else's ears.
After all, the last time they were in the Ten Thousand Viper Sea, the Sect Master's Wife had summoned him and Li Lieyue to this very White Bone Palace.
During that meeting, the two sides had even secretly discussed some important matters.
Clearly, the White Bone Palace's ability to block sound and Spiritual Sense probing was utterly reliable.
So at present, only he and Si Hong Qingyan knew what was happening.
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At the same time, outside the White Bone Palace, the Righteous and Demonic War raged on.
Billowing Yellow Sand swallowed the view, and the ground, once firm beneath their feet, shuddered and churned like flowing water.
With the protection of numerous elders from the righteous side, Zhong Kui Yueji and Ning Wuye finally withdrew to the White Cloud magical treasure,