Xu Lingyin pointed to the four words in the Jade Slip.
"Dallying among flowers and grass."
She considered both her looks and her figure first-rate, yet even so, Zhang Yuan showed no interest in her. Those words did not describe him at all. Otherwise, surely it could not be that Zhang Yuan simply had no interest in her?
Heh...
Ye Xiangning focused her gaze, saw where Xu Lingyin was pointing, and felt the corner of her mouth twitch.
She had considered the possibility that the other intelligence might be wrong, but how could this particular piece be mistaken? Had Xu Lingyin's brain gone bad?
Oh, right. Xu Lingyin had fallen under Zhang Yuan's Divine Ability, and it still had not been dispelled.
On reflection, that made sense. Zhang Yuan was a Foundation Establishment Celestial, after all. Using a Divine Ability to toy with a Lower Cultivator's heart-mind and scheme against her was well within his means.
Ah, you poor thing.
Forget it. Leave her be. She's only a pawn for probing Sky Mountain anyway. If she succeeds, all the better; if she doesn't, it hardly matters.
While Ye Xiangning and Xu Lingyin conversed...
On the other side of the Magic Ship, Ye Zhenshu stood with her arms folded, watching the animated, laughing Ye Xiangning with a grave expression. [Hu Ying] had merged into the shadows, leaving only a pair of eyes visible, its gaze likewise fixed on Ye Xiangning.
"Can you tell what she is?" Ye Zhenshu asked.
She had long since noticed something amiss with Ye Xiangning and suspected that she was not Ye Xiangning at all, but something else. Yet no matter how she tested her, even employing methods to reveal true forms and expose demons, she had failed to uncover Ye Xiangning's origins. Instead, Ye Xiangning had