Seeing everyone looking at me like that,
I lowered my voice and hurriedly explained:
"Stall for time!"
The moment they heard those three words, everyone understood and broke into sly grins.
After all, driving out evil and subduing demons required not only real skill, but brains as well.
What did we lack most right now?
Time.
The Evil-Breaking Soup still needed around five minutes to simmer. Every second we could buy counted.
First, I needed to throw out a "headline" to draw the Nine Corpse Daoist's attention.
Any amount of time we could gain was worth it.
Silence. The entire cave suddenly fell silent.
Even the evil ghosts and zombies stopped attacking us.
Clearly, the Nine Corpse Daoist outside the cave had been thrown for a loop as well.
Perhaps he was wondering what secret of his I knew, and whose past I was talking about.
Only after several seconds did the Nine Corpse Daoist speak:
"Boy, what nonsense are you spouting? What great secret of mine do you know? What past?"
Clearly, the Nine Corpse Daoist was probing me too.
After all, he held the initiative. We were trapped inside the cave.
He didn't think we could stir up any trouble.
"Have you forgotten what happened to you before you cultivated the Nine Corpses Method? That secret of yours—don't think you can hide it from everyone.
While you were gone, we already went to Western Hunan.
We investigated you in Western Hunan..."
I was talking nonsense through my teeth without saying anything outright, instead mentioning things that were relatively true.
He came from the Nine Corpses Sect of Western Hunan, and everyone had secrets. That was an indisputable fact.
As long as I kept it vague, it would do.
"Oh? And what did you find out?"
"What? You tell