In truth, if Su Jiu and the others had come over just then, she would have left immediately. Demons had keen senses, after all, especially when it came to seeking advantage and avoiding danger, an instinct they had honed to the very pinnacle.
Gao Yang's meeting with Zuo Kexin had been a coincidence among coincidences.
After Gao Yang emerged from Purgatory Peak, his life seemed to have lost its purpose. Because he had indirectly helped Shen Qingyue, he was expelled from the Enforcement Hall upon his release and became an ordinary inner gate disciple. At first, he thought he was free, no longer subject to the Enforcement Hall's compulsory assignments.
Only after becoming an ordinary inner gate disciple did he realize what he had lost.
The younger disciples no longer looked at him with admiration, and his residence in the sect went from a high-grade cave abode to a low-grade one. The spiritual qi in a low-grade cave abode amounted to less than half of what a high-grade one offered.
On top of that, he had to regularly carry out the assignments required of inner gate disciples.
Both his monthly allowance and his allocation of pills had noticeably decreased. The pills in particular were not only fewer in number, but far poorer in quality than before.
For a time, he simply could not accept such a life.
Things he had once been able to buy with ease were now far beyond his reach.
It was not that the benefits for inner gate disciples were too poor, but that the Enforcement Hall's benefits were too generous.
The Azure Tide Sect's treatment of its inner gate disciples was the envy of almost the entire Azure Mist Continent, so how could it truly have been so poor?
Of course, none of this could