After the constables removed the corpse and left his courtyard, Liang Gan instinctively glanced at the graceful Zheng Zhuxi, relief welling up inside him:
A great reputation truly was never built on nothing!
The strength Fu Yangquan had just displayed was definitely at the Third Rank, "Divination," yet Heroine Zheng had gravely wounded him in barely a dozen exchanges!
No wonder she had been able to fight and kill Xie Zi'an, a Fourth Rank "Transcendent," back when she was still in the early stage of the Dayan Realm.
Thank goodness I read the situation quickly and yielded on the spot when they first visited. Otherwise, who knew how tall the grass on my grave would be by now...
This was a true prodigy!
Withdrawing his gaze, Liang Gan put on a broad smile and asked Ding Songyan:
"Young Hero Ding, what would you like as your reward?"
Ding Songyan looked around and said with a quiet chuckle:
"Senior Liang, I'd like to read through the Mirror Lake Divine Mirror once, excluding the sections on opening orifices and organ dressing."
"Well..." Liang Gan was utterly bewildered.
You couldn't practice it, and you weren't a disciple of the Yin-Yang Religion. What use would reading the Mirror Lake Divine Mirror be?
Zheng Zhuxi gave her junior brother an amused look, curious what excuse he would invent this time.
"I've acquired a secret art, but it's been very difficult to practice, and I've yet to master it. It has a few things in common with the Mirror Lake Divine Mirror, so I'd like to consult it." Ding Songyan had prepared this explanation several months ago.
Secret arts were methods that did not distinguish between the Mortal Realm, Dayan Realm, and Law Realm, nor did they require opening orifices or organ dressing. They involved only