Faced with this sudden new request, Situ Gu turned to look at him and questioned him bluntly through voice transmission. "Do you think I'm easy to use?"
"Huh?" Shi Chun put on a look of alarm and muttered softly, "Senior, why would you say that?"
Situ Gu asked again, "Do you think that because you know the secret between Zhen'er and me, you can use me without restraint?"
Shi Chun hurriedly said, "You've misunderstood, Senior. Nothing of the sort."
Situ Gu said, "Even if the secret between Zhen'er and me comes out, it won't cause me much trouble. I simply don't want her identity exposed and attracting the covetous eyes of people who cultivate fire-attribute techniques. I don't want to bring her unnecessary trouble. Now that she's fallen into the hands of the Demonic Path, her identity must already be exposed."
His meaning was simple: trying to threaten him with that secret would no longer work.
Shi Chun hurriedly protested his innocence. "Senior, you really are wronging me terribly. Even if I dared use anyone else, I would never dare use you. First, I don't want anything to happen to Zhen'er either. Second, to all the factions, the secret art for finding divine fire matters far more than her relationship with you. You know that secret of mine. I'm already thanking heaven and earth that you haven't used it to threaten me. How would I dare take a mile when given an inch?
"Senior, the reason I want to see the formation's central hub is that something just occurred to me. When the Demonic Path besieged me last time, there was a whole group of them. I was wondering, is there really only one Demonic Path cultivator on this mountain? Could this already be a demon's den occupied by the