After settling matters with Feng Xi, Lu Shang landed beside Wen Siyue and flicked her forehead again.
Wen Siyue cried out, "Ow!" and clutched her forehead.
"You naughty little girl. Didn't I tell you to stabilize your cultivation? How did you end up getting captured?" Lu Shang asked first.
"I really did stabilize my cultivation! But you were still in seclusion when I finished, young master, so I wanted to come out and have a look. Then I accidentally got caught!"
"You stabilized it?"
Lu Shang extended his divine sense to examine her.
"You really did. Looks like you weren't lying to me after all. So how did you get captured?" Lu Shang continued.
"After stabilizing my cultivation, I got bored staying there, so I came out on my own. But! I was only playing around near you, young master..."
By the end, she sounded distinctly guilty.
Lu Shang did not want to dwell on it. Nothing had gone wrong, after all. Next time he went into seclusion, he would just have Hanqing watch her.
Then Lu Shang turned an icy gaze on the woman and two men beside her.
"And who are these people?"
Those Foundation Establishment cultivators had been frightened right from the start. After all, no matter how they looked at him, Lu Shang seemed like a demonic cultivator, and he killed human cultivators at the drop of a hat.
His lengthy conversation with Feng Xi just now had also extinguished most of their hopes of freedom.
Now, under Lu Shang's icy gaze, they could not help shivering.
After a moment, the weak-looking middle-aged cultivator at their head bowed and answered respectfully, "Senior, the three of us are cultivators from Fated Island."
"Cultivators from Fated Island?"
"Yes, senior. We're all cultivators from Fated Island. We were imprisoned