"Who's Luolock?"
It took Bai Xiaowen just 0.1 seconds to react. He put on a suitably blank expression.
Hurried footsteps sounded behind him. Two men jogged up and blocked his path.
"Luolock, stop pretending! We met on the Shaoding Plane!"
Of the two men standing before Bai Xiaowen, the younger one was visibly angry. His normally handsome face was almost twisted out of shape.
The angry young man was Xin Feng.
Bai Xiaowen had met Xin Feng on the Shaoding Plane while helping Cecilia with a mission. Xin Feng had come to the Sand Terrace Mountain Branch as an envoy from the Black Heaven Cult's headquarters to collect the Grievance Spirit Banner.
After stumbling upon him, Bai Xiaowen had wiped out the entire branch. Xin Feng had only escaped by revealing his Instant Hundred-League Jade Talisman and handing over 300 Spirit Crystals to buy his life.
Bai Xiaowen sighed.
Xin Feng had seen his real face during that Spirit Realm expedition, and now they had run into each other outside the arena. What rotten luck.
Still, there was nothing he could have done about it.
Bai Xiaowen could use Spirit Force to alter his appearance, but only in simple ways: rounding his facial contours, lowering the bridge of his nose, thickening his lips, and so on. It was an offshoot of the Illusion Dao Art.
Taking on another person's face fell under the Transformation Art, which Bai Xiaowen could not yet perform.
So why hadn't he disguised his face when he encountered Xin Feng in the Spirit Realm?
The reason was simple: maintaining the disguise consumed True Essence Force continuously. Every bit of it was precious during a Spirit Realm expedition. Bai Xiaowen certainly wouldn't waste it on something as pointless as changing his face. Who could have guessed he