Su Jiu had barely exchanged a few words with Gu Ningyun before Yun Huanling latched onto her again, dragging her aside to talk.
"Do you want to know how I saw through those evil spirits?"
To be honest, Su Jiu had little interest in the matter, and her expression had already made her lack of enthusiasm perfectly clear.
Yet Yun Huanling had a remarkable talent for seeing only the expressions he wanted to see.
And so he ignored Su Jiu's frosty face.
"You have no idea how creepy it was when she smiled at me with your face. It was practically an assault on my sense of beauty!"
Gu Ningyun glanced at Yun Huanling and resisted the urge to undermine him. Frankly, she had not seen any difference between the real thing and the fake at all. The evil spirit had put some effort into its imitation, yet this man had disparaged it as utterly worthless...
Still, Gu Ningyun asked, "Since you knew they were fakes, why did you withdraw the defensive formation?"
"That was a strategy to make the enemy lower their guard! If I hadn't acted like I had nothing to hide, how could I have made them drop their defenses against us? You saw what happened at the end-I caught them completely off guard!"
Gu Ningyun said, "..." Fine, as long as you're happy.
Watching Gu Ningyun become a little more animated, Su Jiu's eyes took on a trace of amusement. Her peach blossom eyes were already exceptionally beautiful, and that smile made them all the more captivating.
The group walked through the woods, chatting intermittently about what had happened to them during their time apart.
Beside Su Jiu, Xia Jue said quietly, "The Azure Tide Sect has changed somewhat..."
By now, she had become quite adept