"Help?"
Su Che shook his head. "I'm not interested."
There was something strangely familiar about this Eunuch Sun. Su Che felt he had met him before, but could not remember where.
"I'm traveling to the Eastern Sea on urgent business by royal command..."
A realization flashed through Su Che's mind, and he smiled.
"We're old acquaintances. Why bother with this charade?"
"Oh?"
The middle-aged eunuch surnamed Sun looked up at Su Che. A trace of uncertainty crossed his face.
He recognized me?
My illusion is a rare Heavenly Demon Secret Method in this world, with an extraordinary origin. It could fool even an Immortal True Person face-to-face. If I hadn't been careless and fallen into the Northern Pole Origin Palace's trap, nothing would have gone wrong.
"Your illusion truly is as seamless as a Heavenly Garment, my lady. But I'm curious: why aren't you living at home? Why come to the palace and play eunuch? Are the Wang-Xie Clans preparing to turn against us?"
Su Che's words put Lady Xie at ease.
By origin, she belonged to the Slave Race under Devil King Jun Tian Guang Yue. Later, through a twist of fate, she escaped with her true essence and hid within this world. This had sent the Dharma-Ending Lord into a rage, and he had dispatched Devil Sect cultivators who revered him as their lord to hunt her down.
She had reincarnated time and again through a secret method. Though she had lost most of her cultivation, Form-Shifting Substance-Changing had gradually brought her closer to the cultivators of this world. Most of her divine abilities and magical power had long since dissipated.
Her divine abilities and magical power were indeed gone, but her former insight into the root of the Great Dao remained clear.
For more than a century,