"So that was it!"
Senior Uncle Yuxuan, who had remained silent all this time, suddenly spoke, then nodded in realization.
He had never been able to work out how He Pingsheng had escaped.
Now that he heard this explanation, everything became clear.
Throughout the hall, quite a few others came to the same realization as Yuxuan.
"That still doesn't make sense!" Daoist Nun Feng suddenly said. "Your disguising yourself as a man is plausible, but how could you have fooled the discerning eyes of Heavenly Talisman Mountain's elders?"
"Would they have let you aboard?"
Daoist Nun Feng had voiced the doubts in many people's minds.
He Pingsheng said, "While I was in the Secret Realm, I did a favor for a Heavenly Talisman Mountain disciple, Qiao Huizhu. She helped conceal my identity!"
Elder Hong nodded. "Where did you go after leaving aboard Heavenly Talisman Mountain's Flying Boat?"
He Pingsheng said, "I traveled aboard Heavenly Talisman Mountain's Flying Boat for about half a day, then disembarked among some mountains!"
"I originally intended to head to Horsehead Mountain Market first, but my divine sense was injured, so I couldn't control a Paper Crane to fly. I could only hide in the mountains and cultivate!"
"Several days later, earlier today, Master happened to find me while she was out searching!"
"And so I returned to the sect with Master!"
"That was everything that happened!"
Having finished, He Pingsheng fell silent.
He had said far too much today.
As the saying went, a loose tongue was bound to slip.
The more he said, the easier it would be for someone to find a hole in his story.
The best approach would have been to say nothing and insist that he had never seen Linglong. Without evidence, they could do nothing to him.
But that