Rhythm Master

What on earth was going on with Li Jing?

Inside Yunxiao's chambers on Three Immortal Island, Li Changshou paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, his eyes full of confusion.

Yunxiao sat quietly to one side, a faint smile on her lips. Seeing that Li Changshou still could not set his mind at ease, she said:

"Don't trouble yourself over it. This is not something that will affect the course of the great calamity. I trust you completely."

"This may not be such a small matter."

Li Changshou sighed slowly, returned to where he had been sitting, and sat less than three feet from Yunxiao.

Her uniquely faint fragrance was enough to set one's heart wandering.

Li Changshou said, "I know Li Jing well enough. He entered the Du Xian Sect as a child, possesses Great Destiny, and has the fate of a great general. He is not someone who deliberately seeks shortcuts."

"Seeking shortcuts..."

Yunxiao savored those words, then smiled. "Put that way, this matter truly does need to be handled properly.

"If someone else wanted to wrangle a post in the Heavenly Court, or used your name to swagger about and swindle others, that would indeed be improper."

"That will not be the case. What happened with Li Jing really was just a coincidence."

Li Changshou seemed about to speak, hesitated slightly, and ultimately did not voice what lay in his heart.

There was no need to make her worry too much.

His many acts of care toward Li Jing had ultimately been for the sake of playing a game against the Heavenly Dao.

His current thoughts had changed considerably from back then, but before this incident in the Capital City of Shang State, Li Changshou had always believed that his reshaping of Li Jing