"Yes, Senior."
Facing a Great Cultivator at the Nascent Soul Late Stage, Liu Yu dared not be negligent.
After a pause, he immediately began:
"After the Chang'an Plan began, our party of five, including Fellow Daoist Zhuo, Fellow Daoist Mu, and myself, first concealed our auras and secretly crossed Skyhawk Ridge."
"Then..."
"Unfortunately, while crossing the Sparkfire Mountain Range, we were inadvertently discovered by Demon Cultivators of the Fire Phoenix Clan and had no choice but to flee separately."
"Thanks to the talisman bestowed by the Patriarch, I was fortunate enough to escape with my life."
"After braving countless dangers, I finally reached the Central Region. Unfortunately, I never heard any further news of the other Fellow Daoists."
Liu Yu slowly recounted the difficulties he had encountered along the way, giving a detailed account that mixed nine parts truth with one part falsehood.
Since he had already agreed on their story with Zhuo Mengzhen, he remained calm and composed.
He could not underestimate the reach of the three great alliances. The more lies he told, the more likely they were to be discovered, so to be safe, he concealed only the most crucial information.
For instance, he manipulated the details of the route, presenting a dead end as a viable passage and making no mention whatsoever of the Myriad Demon Grand Formation at the other end.
As for other matters concerning the Central Region, such as the Great Tang having fallen over a hundred thousand years ago and the uprisings among the Central Region's rogue cultivators, he concealed little.
Of course, he glossed over what he himself had done in the Central Region.
Zhuo Mengzhen's account was much the same, so there was no need to worry about their story being exposed anytime soon.
"To think that the Great Tang,