Below, Everlasting Love Venerable still stared fixedly at Sikong Jing in the air.
The next moment, she suddenly cried, "Wait!"
As she spoke, Everlasting Love Venerable swiftly chased after him, then fixed her gaze on Sikong Jing again. "Though I don't know whether you truly trust me, to ensure my own safety, I'll now tell you the secret of my life and death."
As soon as the words fell, Everlasting Love Venerable immediately moved close to Sikong Jing and whispered several words into his ear.
Sikong Jing's eyes widened slightly upon hearing them. He looked at Everlasting Love Venerable with some disbelief.
With a flash, she retreated, her little face turning incomparably solemn. "Now we each hold the other's secret. We can trust each other completely. I'm going down to study that sheet of black jade paper now."
With another flash, Everlasting Love Venerable landed on the ground, and her consciousness immediately entered the black jade paper.
Meanwhile, Sikong Jing hovered blankly in midair...
Slowly, a smile tugged at the corner of his lips as he murmured inwardly, "Everlasting Love truly is different from the rest."
In truth, Sikong Jing naturally could not trust Everlasting Love Venerable one hundred percent. Or rather, where his sister's and Su Yuexi's safety was concerned, he had to be exceedingly, exceedingly cautious.
So what he had just used was actually... luring the enemy in by feigning retreat.
He wanted Everlasting Love Venerable to voluntarily offer up a secret that could serve as mutual leverage and establish trust.
Just as Sikong Jing had expected, Everlasting Love Venerable really had revealed an earth-shattering secret of her own.
This tactic would certainly have been useless against the other Thoughtless Sacred Sect powerhouses, or against Qu Hanming. But Sikong Jing had gained quite a bit of understanding of