Sitting beneath the eaves, Wang Xian quietly listened to the conversation between the two women, a faint smile curling at the corner of his lips.
Sure enough, never trust a woman's words.
Especially those of a seemingly innocent young girl.
While sending Bao Xiaoqin a voice transmission telling her not to leave with Tu Xiuyun, he smiled at Tang Feng. "After seeing how miserable someone looked beneath a heavenly tribulation, are you afraid that one day you might end up worse off than her?"
"What's there to fear?"
Tang Feng shook his head. "You and I are cultivators. Naturally, we fear heavenly might more than ordinary people... but so what? We can't stop seeking breakthroughs or dare not undergo tribulation just because we fear death, can we?"
"That makes sense." Wang Xian sighed and smiled. "Do you think I'm avoiding that woman because I can't beat her?"
Tang Feng froze when he heard that.
After a long while, he burst out laughing. "Of course not. If Ye Honglian found out you had your eye on her mother, even if she was already married, she'd still come fight you to the death."
"Pah!"
Wang Xian yawned and pointed at the food and wine on the table, shaking his head. "A perfectly fine banquet, ruined by that old woman's heavenly tribulation! What a buzzkill."
Tang Feng shook his head. He truly could not understand it.
A breakthrough and tribulation were matters of life and death to them, yet in Wang Xian's eyes, they seemed like such a trivial affair.
Looking across the great lake again, he saw Bao Xiaoqin waving farewell to the two women. She was alone by the lakeshore, washing herself up. Clearly, she intended to return shortly to drink with Wang Xian.
Perhaps, in a woman's eyes, she was