Chu Mo raised his eyes to Di Yang and asked in puzzlement, "What does he want?"
Di Yang answered respectfully, "Declining Fate said your peerless bearing impressed him, Teacher. He wishes to make your acquaintance and discuss the Great Dao."
"Make my acquaintance?"
Chu Mo's expression turned rather odd.
An Origin Spirit had taken the initiative to befriend him? How was that any different from food running up to a diner and saying, "Let's get to know each other"?
To cultivators, Origin Spirits were prime ingredients, the essential resources for advancing from Golden Core to Nascent Soul. Although he had already formed his Nascent Soul and no longer needed Spirit Binding, even selling the fellow would fetch a handsome price.
"Now I've seen something new." Chu Mo shook his head, inwardly amused. Someone actually wants to deliver himself to my doorstep and graduate to prime ingredient.
He set the matter aside and asked instead, "While I was away, did the remaining Taboos behave themselves?"
Di Yang replied, "They came to probe us a few times, but I managed to bluff most of them into leaving. Only..."
"What is it?"
Di Yang hesitated before saying, "Those Taboos refuse to open their vegetable gardens or spread the Underworld's name. As you instructed, Teacher, I explained what they stood to gain and lose, but they still wish to wait and see."
"Hmm?"
Chu Mo raised his brows slightly. "They actually refuse to be my dogs? How utterly ill-mannered and uncouth."
Di Yang froze at those words.
Be Teacher's dogs? And volunteer for it, too? Why did that sound... a little off? It hardly sounded like something someone righteous would say.
He promptly shook his head and flung that treasonous thought out of his mind.
Teacher was surely right. If anyone was wrong, it