"Hey! What are you being so mysterious about? Just say it! I've already set up restrictions here. Nobody can hear us!" Li Xiaoya said with a laughing scold when he saw her furtive manner.
"Oh, come on! Don't you think mysterious things need a little atmosphere?" Lingyu said coyly.
"All right! Stop letting your imagination run wild and tell me!" Li Xiaoya urged, laughing inwardly. He really had no idea what went through this little girl's head.
"Hey, Senior! Do you know something?" Lingyu said mysteriously. "That Secret Market wasn't actually opened by Demonic Path cultivators. It was opened by people from the Mystic Heaven Way of the Righteous Path!"
"Huh? People from the Mystic Heaven Way opened it?" Li Xiaoya froze in surprise. He had assumed some Demonic Path cultivators had set it up to evade taxes; he had never imagined the Mystic Heaven Way was behind it. After a pause, he hurriedly asked, "How do you know? A cultivator at your level shouldn't be privy to a secret like that, should she?"
"Oh, Senior, you're really underestimating me!" Lingyu said smugly. She paused, then continued only after seeing Xiao Ya's disdainful expression. "Well, actually, I'd only heard rumors before. But after seeing Senior Yu in the Secret Market today, I'm absolutely certain the Mystic Heaven Way opened it!"
"Oh! So that fellow Yu is involved too?" Li Xiaoya asked in surprise. "Is he from the Mystic Heaven Way? How did you find out?" He paused, then saw her large, mischievous eyes darting about and barked, "No lying, or I'll throw you out onto the street!"
"Fine!" Lingyu said coyly. After a pause, she continued, "Actually, I didn't know Senior Yu was a Righteous Path cultivator either. But once, when I went to his house to steal something to