He stepped out of the study.
Xiao Yuanjun approached on quiet feet, gently patted Zhang Yuan on the shoulder, and asked:
"How did it go, Zhang Yuan? She didn't give you a hard time, did she?"
Zhang Yuan shook his head.
Although she had held a sword to his neck and forced him to compromise, that hardly counted as giving him a hard time. At most, she had been testing him.
Whatever else she might be, she was a Golden Core True Lord. She would hardly stoop to making trouble for a Lower Cultivator at the celestial mid-stage. If she truly wanted to harm him, her True Lord standing and the profound mystery of her golden position would let her influence him with ease. Why bother making trouble for him?
Besides, the [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] had brought a crucial piece of news: Chen Xinqiao was about to return to her position.
Zhang Yuan briefly explained what had happened to Xiao Yuanjun.
Understanding dawned on Xiao Yuanjun. She made a fist with one hand and flattened the other, striking her fist into her palm as she said, "Then we'll have to move faster. If Chen Xinqiao is returning to her position, those True Lords who don't want her alive will definitely start laying their plans."
Zhang Yuan understood this too, and his heart-mind tightened.
The [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] wanted Chen Xinqiao to return to [Heavenly Well Radiance]. If the [True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns] and the others who had laid that deathtrap for Chen Xinqiao learned that she had risen from the dead, they certainly would not let her off so easily. They would lay another deathtrap.
Without the heavenly laws obstructing them, they might even use a True Lord's mighty power to locate Chen Xinqiao and kill