"While we're at it, Old Master Gong needs to teach you something: to be a decent person, you need a heart."
"Understand?"
"Old Mao might steal the fruits of other people's labor, but he still has a heart."
"Only someone with a heart can become a proper practitioner. Otherwise, even if you study for seventy or eighty years, even until you're a hundred, your Yin-Yang Arts will never reach perfection."
The teasing vanished from Old Gong's face. "And when you deal with snakes, insects, rats, and ants, you need to be even kinder. Otherwise, you'll just end up making more trouble for my master."
"Old Gong, stop talking nonsense."
Luo Xianshen turned his head, his gaze cooling slightly.
Old Gong twitched his nose again and pushed up his glasses.
"Master, do you think my plan is wrong?"
"I think it's pretty good."
Old Gong smiled again, his eyes darting even faster.
"Mr. Luo, don't take some of Old Gong's remarks to heart. Sometimes his ghost nature outweighs his judgment as a practitioner." Luo Xianshen looked at Luo Bin with a trace of apology in his eyes.
Luo Bin shook his head, showing no displeasure. "Not at all. Old Master Gong's plan is excellent. I agree with it. This really is an opportunity."
"I'll look for the Jade Corpse. I simply hadn't mentioned it. In fact, I'd already thought of that when we split off from the main group."
"After spending so long on Cabinet Mountain, I understand better how important humanity is to a person. I won't lose mine. That day will never come."
His eyes were filled with certainty as he spoke that last sentence.
"If you don't go astray, you could become a Horse-Riding, Taoist, and Black-Robed Man someday. Old Master Gong would get to bask in a