He Dazhi and the others saw Xiao Yicai turn back before leaving and wink at them. Realizing he had feigned his injury to get them off the hook, they smiled at him gratefully.
When the four returned to Big Bamboo Peak's camp, He Dazhi told Tian Buyi and Su Ru what had happened.
"The Demon Sect really does have something up its sleeve this time." Tian Buyi tapped his fingers on the table, his expression grave.
"Master! The Ghost King is much stronger than he was in the Wildlands!" Zhang Xiaofan suddenly said.
Tian Buyi and Su Ru didn't understand what he meant at first, and wondered how Zhang Xiaofan could tell. Someone at the Ghost King's level of cultivation should have been impossible for him to gauge.
"The pressure he put on me today was much greater than it was in the Wildlands." Zhang Xiaofan recalled.
"Could he have had some fortuitous encounter?" Su Ru guessed.
Tian Buyi's expression darkened further. He lowered his head and fell into thought. If Zhang Xiaofan was right, then things would get very troublesome.
Seeing Zhang Xiaofan hesitate, Su Ru smiled and asked, "Xiaofan, is there something else you want to say?"
"Shiniang! I..." Zhang Xiaofan wasn't sure if he could say what he was thinking.
"Is there something you can't tell me?" Seeing Zhang Xiaofan stumble over his words, Tian Buyi glared at him.
At some point, Tian Buyi had grown to hate it when his disciples hesitated and stammered.
Whenever one of them did, it meant the youngest disciple had gotten into trouble again! How could that not give him a headache and put him off?
Zhang Xiaofan then recounted his encounter with Bi Yao in Blooddrop Cave. Earlier, Luo Yunji had already told Su Ru about it in a rather