Above Immortal Phoenix Island.
Two graceful figures hovered in the air.
Watching Li Ping depart aboard his Flying Boat, Feng Xishuang gave a bitter smile. "Sister Yi Ling, this was all my fault. I shouldn't have given Fellow Daoist Li the chance to perform a Soul Search."
"It wasn't your fault." Wei Yiling shook her head. "Now that I think it over carefully, Li Ping probably had some special means of eavesdropping that let him uncover that old fellow Mo Gui's scheme. Perhaps he was listening to our conversations all along and had already grown suspicious about the Jade Slip.
"If you hadn't given him the chance to perform a Soul Search, you would only have confirmed his suspicions outright. He would still have turned against us after killing the Eastern Sea Four Fiends."
Feng Xishuang could not help sighing at her words.
She still held considerable affection for Li Ping, who had healed her grievous injuries, and she could tell that Sister Yi Ling's impression of him had been quite favorable as well.
But after this incident, the two sides had become complete strangers.
"There's no need to sigh. Our main purpose on this trip was to kill the Eastern Sea Four Fiends and take revenge. The spoils were secondary. He saved you once, so let the spoils from the Four Fiends serve as our thanks."
Wei Yiling smiled as she comforted Feng Xishuang. "Besides, didn't he leave us the Four Fiends' method for passing through the Mirage Fog? We sisters now have a safe foothold in the Eastern Sea. We didn't come away entirely empty-handed."
Feng Xishuang nodded in agreement.
Li Ping was a high-level Pill Refiner. With that craft to rely on, he had no need to worry about cultivation resources.
Unlike him, the two women had