Mulan Qingqing froze as she received the message on her Mother-Child Talisman. She had spent a long time composing her words, yet his reply was unexpectedly simple. It carried a casual air-or rather, an overbearing confidence that suggested he did not take her seriously at all. Simple and to the point.
Those four short characters had actually shaken her a little.
Yes, that was exactly the feeling: intimidation. She did not know whether she was imagining it.
She had known nothing of Wang Sheng before. Only through this encounter had she begun to take him seriously. As their clash unfolded, her impression of him had gradually taken shape, culminating in these four short characters before her. She felt that this Wang Sheng was very different.
Different from the people of the Origin Sword Palace here, different from every disciple in her Suyuan Sect, and different from all the sect disciples she had ever dealt with.
She was an elite disciple of the Suyuan Sect-an elite disciple of one of the cultivation world's top sects. No disciple from a sect beneath that level would speak to her in such a tone. Today, she had met one who did.
For a moment, she found herself unable to adjust.
Huyan Dao and Jin Zaogong also stared at her curiously, wondering what was wrong with this woman and why she was standing there in a daze.
When she finally recovered, Mulan Qingqing replied through the Mother-Child Talisman in her hand: "The place where we just fought. See you in two hours."
She refused to lose ground in bearing, either.
This time, his reply was one character shorter: "Understood."
Mulan Qingqing stared silently at the reply for a while, then slowly put away the Mother-Child Talisman. Turning to the two men, she said, "Huyan, I'm