Wang Yufu smiled wryly. "My lord, aren't you afraid that if we ignore it, it'll think we're afraid of it...?"
Tang Changsheng could simply ignore the provocation and fly around it. But once word got back, people might take that for cowardice.
Besides, he had already drawn more than enough attention on Great Expansion Peak. Why go to such trouble for no reward?
"Let them think I'm afraid, then. Even Senior Brother Zheng Qing got no advantage against this Demon Monkey. Why should I stick my neck out?" Tang Changsheng said with a shrug.
A contest of pride meant nothing to him now. Even if he killed the Demon Monkey, Shangyuan Mountain would not become his.
Besides, a Demon Monkey that had driven Zheng Qing away was hardly an opponent to underestimate.
"Does Mr. Wang think we should go meet this Demon Monkey?" Tang Changsheng asked with a smile.
Wang Yufu laughed but said nothing. Inwardly, he was pleased. His lord was not the sort of man who would die to save face.
As the saying went, in this age, it was not only the lord who chose his ministers; ministers chose their lord as well!
For someone as proud as Wang Yufu, who longed to put all his abilities and ambitions to use, choosing the right lord mattered all the more.
So although he had begun to accept Tang Changsheng, a few small tests along the way were unavoidable...
Come to think of it, wasn't this rather like the games of pursuit and testing between lovers?
Perhaps that was why so many love poems written since ancient times were not really about love at all... but about lords and ministers.
The Cloud-Crane Flying Carriage continued straight ahead, paying no heed to the cloud of Demon Aura surging into the