Sushang stayed at the array's heart for only a moment. Leaving them with, "Junior brothers, feel free to examine it more closely," she excused herself on other business and departed.
Chu Mo narrowed his eyes slightly as he watched the direction in which she had vanished.
"What?" Youzhen strolled over and chuckled. "Do you think True Person Sushang doesn't seem much like an Immortal Garden disciple?"
Chu Mo shook his head without a word.
Seeing this, Youzhen laughed and said:
"Junior brother, not everyone in the Immortal Garden is a dissolute libertine. Some appear aloof, pure, and noble. But at their core, they are still fiends who toy with the seven emotions and manipulate the six desires. Sushang is no different.
"They pass through passion without entering it, appearing full of feeling while truly feeling nothing. That is the Blissful Immortal Garden.
"Don't let her outward appearance deceive you, or you'll end up like that Han Ming just now-her 'emotion puppet,' without even knowing it."
The Immortal Garden's divine abilities and cultivation arts could silently plant deep roots of attachment in others, turning them into fodder and nourishment.
At this, Chu Mo smiled faintly. "Of course I know."
If one asked which lineage the people of Tribulation Deliverance hated most, the Upper Mound Commerce Association would undoubtedly take first place.
But when it came to the worst reputation and the least trustworthiness, the Hezhen Society and the Immortal Garden stood far ahead of all the rest.
Ten days passed in a flash.
All preparations for the Grand Array were finally complete, and it was about to be activated.
Several more Golden Core True Persons from the Immortal Garden had arrived. Among them was a mid-Golden Core cultivator named Gu Zhou, who, like Chu Mo, had undergone Heaven-Sacrifice Foundation Establishment. Under