"Miss Zhang..." Relying on his movement skills, Fan Chunlin squeezed his way to Ding Songyan's side as well, and nearly froze on the spot at a single glance.
Such beauty, such radiance, such distinctive features-and here near Prince Kang's Residence. She could only be Zhang Yingbo, the "Vermilion Phoenix Spear"!
Besides, Fan Chunlin had studied the Rivers and Lakes Beauty Register thoroughly. This youngest junior sister of the Five Saints Sect was hardly a stranger to him.
While he craned his neck to look, Ding Songyan entered the Cheap Wine Shop from the other side and made his way around to the counter.
He dared not get too close to Zhang Yingbo. The Dayan Realm's "All the World's Colors Gather" had less effect on him and could draw away only a little of his radiance. That would expose his cultivation realm as clearly higher than Yan Qing's, the "Heaven's Will Saber."
Back at the Night Market on South-Pacifying Street, Zhang Yingbo had been a full ten feet away from him. The farther away one was, the weaker the effect of "All the World's Colors Gather." At the Vermilion Phoenix Spear's realm, beyond ten feet it could only make someone look dimmer, robbing them of very little color. It had also been late at night, and Ding Songyan had been sitting by the street where there were no stalls, at the edge of the lamplight on either side. He had already been quite dimly lit, so Yan Qing and the others had noticed nothing unusual.
Glancing at Twelfth Madam Luo, who was studying Zhang Yingbo and the others with her chin resting in one hand, Ding Songyan leaned against the counter and lowered his voice.
"What brought the Vermilion Phoenix Spear here?"
*Shouldn't she have picked a restaurant and taken a