Primordial Wilderness: I Am Hong Yun, and I Traded My Saint Position for a Wife at the Start

He sighed again, pressing his thoughts down.

"Very well. Since you're unwilling, I can only return empty-handed."

Hong Yun's eyes lit up, his gaze burning with intensity.

He spoke to Nu Wa:

"Please pass a message to the three fellow Daoists. Though I haven't joined the Yao Clan, as long as they're willing, we'll always be friends!"

Compared with vying for power in the Yao Clan,

Hong Yun would much rather stay out of it and maintain a friendship with them that transcended such things!

Nu Wa departed again, her heart heavy with worries.

Hong Yun sat by the bamboo grove. After a while, he called toward the empty air in exasperation:

"Everyone's gone! Come out!"

Xuanming stepped out of the empty air beside him, looking a little embarrassed.

She had been comprehending martial arts in Fire Cloud Cave earlier.

Thinking she might need to ask Hong Yun about martial arts seals at any moment, she hadn't left.

When she sensed Nu Wa returning,

she immediately grew wary!

So she had quietly followed and hidden nearby!

Hong Yun and Nu Wa had both sensed Xuanming's arrival earlier, but they hadn't been discussing anything secret.

They hadn't kept it from her!

After all, if Hong Yun had accepted Nu Wa's offer, the whole world would have known.

Later, when Hong Yun gave Nu Wa a little advice, he had only then shielded Xuanming from their conversation.

When Hong Yun called her out,

Xuanming first looked a little embarrassed, then forced herself to look composed.

Her eyes swept back and forth over Hong Yun.

"They actually invited you to help establish the Yao Clan?"

"What did you do to become so irresistible?"

And Nu Wa had come to persuade him again!

Seeing Xuanming's expression, as if asking, "Have you got another