After Zuo Guangshu had carefully finished explaining the intelligence, Jiang Wang thanked him repeatedly before saying, "Come to think of it, I've always thought you were the sort of man who could take things in stride, Guangshu. Getting so worked up over missing out on the Yellow River Assembly doesn't seem like you."
Zuo Guangshu had clearly been struck where it hurt. He swept his sleeve and snapped, "Xiang Bei is arrogant and ill-mannered. If I were his age, would I ever let him run wild?!"
It seemed he had lost to Xiang Bei, who was older and had cultivated for longer. The young boy was not at all reconciled to it.
Jiang Wang kept his expression neutral. "He dares to act arrogant even in front of you. It seems he really is Great Chu's number one Inner Palace cultivator."
"What number one Inner Palace cultivator? Qu Shunhua isn't the least bit weaker than him! She's just hiding..." The instant Zuo Guangshu let the words slip, he glanced at Jiang Wang like a thief caught in the act, then awkwardly tried to cover it up. "Hiding her strength, that's all."
Big Brother Dugu had weathered all manner of storms, so his expression remained unchanged. "Oh, I see."
But a thought stirred in his mind. Hiding a Supernatural Power?
By rights, nobody should conceal their strength at an event like the Yellow River Assembly, where the whole world competed to come out on top.
But Jiang Wang possessed the Divergent Path Supernatural Power, so of course he could understand.
No matter how much one gained at the Yellow River Assembly, it could not make up for the loss of exposing the Divergent Path Supernatural Power.
Still, he was curious about what Qu Shunhua was hiding—and even more curious about why Zuo