This continued the side stories from chapters 290, 330, and 371.
This was an alternate take on chapter 274, an IF Timeline in which Aha never blew up the Astral Express, Xianyu never deleted his account, and he lived all the way to the era of the High-Cloud Quintet.
One side story first... let me think about whether to post the main story as I write it or finish it all in one go before posting...
Yingxing and Baiheng hesitated, words on the tips of their tongues.
Dan Feng took out his Jade Abacus, tapped the screen, and swiftly put together a reading list for Jingliu.
It included the bestselling, most representative storybooks from the past five hundred years on the Xianzhou, along with a series of books on psychology.
Seeing how focused Dan Feng was, the two assumed the High Elder was handling official business and could only keep quiet.
They waited and waited until Dan Feng finally put down his Jade Abacus.
Baiheng scratched her fox ears and ventured:
"Dan Feng, how about... giving this some more thought?"
Yingxing chimed in.
"Exactly. How can she learn from storybooks? That sounds far too unreliable..."
Dan Feng was displeased to hear that.
He had specifically chosen the bestselling storybooks.
With such a broad readership, they naturally had something worth learning from.
Even if those moves would not work on the Marshal, she could still study their plots as examples of what not to do.
Dan Feng shook his head and sighed.
"You're underestimating Jingliu."
Jingliu was an adult over eight hundred years old, the Luofu's Sword Champion who commanded the Cloud Knights.
She had merely fallen for the Marshal.
That did not mean she had lost her most basic judgment.
Baiheng gave a couple of awkward chuckles.
Were they