Watching Hongjun enter the palace, Xiao Yun curled his lip and said to Battle Sage beside him, "Look at that old man. He spends all day guarding against me. Am I really that scheming? I reckon he got so used to plotting against others that he always judges others by his own heart, thinking I'm plotting against him."
"Isn't that so?" Battle Sage asked back with a sidelong glance.
Without so much as a blush or a skipped heartbeat, Xiao Yun said calmly, "Before entering the Eternal Ruins, I wouldn't move against him. I still have that much sense of the bigger picture."
"You want to force out his true strength, don't you?" Battle Sage's gaze was deep and shadowy.
Xiao Yun waved a hand and entered the Chaos Pearl world with Battle Sage.
Not far away, those blood-red fragments were still crashing about in every direction, yet they could not escape this world.
Turning to Battle Sage beside him, Xiao Yun said, "You know that old bastard Hongjun better than anyone. When it comes to scheming, that old thing is more sinister than anyone. If I got along with him peacefully, he might scheme against me without me even knowing when. But if I target him at every turn now, he'll have to guard against me, leaving him no time to plot against me."
"Using offense as defense? Not bad. You brat really have grown. You've made Old Sun see you in a new light!" Battle Sage looked at Xiao Yun in surprise.
Previously, he had thought Xiao Yun was narrow-minded and that was why he kept targeting Hongjun. He had not expected Xiao Yun to have such thoughts.
"One cannot be too cautious when dealing with that old fellow Hongjun!" Xiao Yun sighed. "Did your Primordial World lack