"I'll see whether Madam Lu is still there."
No longer needing to maintain the Returning Blade to Sheath Form, Xu Taiping let out a long breath, then peered outside the courtyard through the gap in the door again.
To his disappointment, Madam Lu was still standing at the entrance.
As though she had noticed Xu Taiping's gaze, Madam Lu even narrowed her eyes and smiled at him.
Although Madam Lu possessed an extraordinarily beautiful face, her smile still made Xu Taiping's hair stand on end. He thought:
It seems Miss Dongfang's approach is still the safest.
Although Xu Taiping had learned the Life-Taking Blade, which could counter Yin Gods, and had a powerful backer like Venerable Jiaye in the Wilderness, what he faced now was a Yin God, not an ordinary cultivator. One careless move, and he would never have another chance to fight back.
So he decided to do as Dongfang Yuejian had suggested: hold out for an hour and quietly wait for Madam Lu to leave.
Just as he was about to withdraw his gaze, however, he suddenly noticed that the weeds on the ground in the courtyard were withering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Where no weeds grew, the soil was also beginning to turn damp.
But compared with Madam Lu's chilling smile, these strange phenomena were nothing at all.
"These changes must have been caused by the Ghost Servant's power after the courtyard gate opened."
Muttering this under his breath, Xu Taiping prepared to withdraw his gaze and take over from Dongfang Yuejian in blocking the chill spreading from Madam Lu.
"Hm?"
But just as he withdrew his gaze and prepared to channel his True Essence and draw his blade, the Lotus Eye in his left eye suddenly grew searing hot.
Wisps of