"Oh?" Hongyuan had assumed he was another spy from the Sacred Hall and paid him little mind. But those words caught her interest. A faint red glow rose in her eyes as she studied the bound Ruan Ji, and she gleaned a little from him. "This man is deceitful by nature. Why would he lay all this bare to Senior Brother?"
"Of course he didn't tell me," Chen Cuo said. "But whatever a man has done leaves traces."
Ruan Ji shuddered. Looking into Hongyuan's eyes, their Black and White sharply defined, he felt an inexplicable fear.
"A deity of the Northern Lands who knows the secrets of us arrivals? This man has plenty of secrets." Hongyuan's eyes turned, and she smiled sweetly. "Then he must have made contact with those four and even won their trust. He came here to repeat the trick on you, Senior Brother."
"That's likely," Chen Cuo said with a nod.
"Do you intend to probe deeper into his mind for secrets?" Hongyuan asked.
A chill ran down Ruan Ji's spine!
These two really are different from the previous four!
He looked at the two calm figures before him, fear stirring in his heart.
The alluring one pieced together nearly everything from a single sentence. Her eyes seem to see right through people, and she gives off an aura unlike any living person's. As for the other one...
He glanced cautiously at Chen Cuo.
*He found me as soon as I entered the city and attacked without a word of agreement! That would be bad enough, but his methods were so strange I couldn't block them. I'd lost before I even understood what was happening! No wonder he captured even the renowned Lord of Youqiong. But what's truly unfathomable is how he learned my origins without