"Go on."
Hou Tu set down her teacup and gestured for the three of them to sit before continuing.
Ye Tian sat down. Xuan Ming sat down. Only Di Jiang remained standing.
"I don't like sitting in unfamiliar places."
That was the explanation he gave.
Hou Tu waved a hand, utterly unconcerned.
"What I want to know is, when you say you want to leave this place, where exactly are you leaving?"
"Naturally, this world."
Xuan Ming spoke as though it were only natural.
Yet Hou Tu showed not the slightest surprise, as though she had merely heard something utterly ordinary.
"Why?"
she asked.
"I want to attain the Saint's Dao. I want to break free from the shackles of this Heavenly Dao."
Xuan Ming said.
Hou Tu turned to look at Di Jiang again.
"My reason is more or less the same as his. But the bigger reason is that I simply don't like the look of this Heavenly Dao."
His answer was as arrogant and unruly as ever.
"Just because the two of you want to leave, you expect me to hand over my natal soul artifact? Isn't that rather unfair to me? If the Heavenly Dao discovers that I was the one who helped you, I'm afraid you can simply leave, while I'll be left behind to suffer."
Hou Tu spoke, every word making sense.
"What would it take for you to lend it to us?"
Ye Tian asked directly.
The other party had said so much only to raise the terms of negotiation. If she had truly made up her mind not to lend it, she would not have wasted so much breath.
"One look tells me this little brother is a straightforward man. I don't ask for much. When the day comes for you to