"No more pretending. I'm putting my cards on the table," Li Yichen said seriously. "I have a secret to tell you. I'm actually a cultivator. A ghost cultivator, to be precise."
"Hahaha..." Sun Kai burst out laughing, then pointed at Li Yichen as he said to Yang Weifeng and Zhang Yong, "Fourth Bro... he says he's a cultivator..."
Then his expression froze, and he asked, "What's a cultivator?"
"Uh..." Li Yichen was speechless. You don't even know what a cultivator is, so what the hell are you laughing at?
"You don't even know that?" Before Li Yichen could speak, Yang Weifeng cut in. "Haven't you seen those people on TV who ride around the sky on giant swords?"
"Fourth Bro, did I get that right?" Yang Weifeng turned to ask him.
"Mm... ah... more or less." Li Yichen had no idea how to answer. He would just let them interpret it however they liked.
At that, Yang Weifeng and the others were stunned, and they stared at Li Yichen as though he were a monster.
After a long while, Sun Kai asked tentatively, "Fourth Bro, you just said you're a ghost... ghost cultivator? You're not an actual ghost, are you?"
The others could not help swallowing either, fear creeping across their faces.
Li Yichen rolled his eyes. "We've lived together for a year. Do I look like a ghost to you?"
"Hehe, fair point." Zhang Yong immediately relaxed, then asked jokingly, "Have you ever met Black and White Impermanence, then?"
"Yes." Li Yichen nodded firmly. "I just saw them a little while ago."
"Uh..." All three stiffened and exchanged looks of disbelief.
After a long silence, Yang Weifeng could not help asking, "Fourth Bro, you're joking with us, right?"
Sun Kai and the others snapped out of it and chimed