He Pingsheng looked even more embarrassed!
He looked at Shang Xihong, momentarily at a loss for what to say.
But then he let out another deep breath and declared, "I promised your disciple Sigui that I would take him to the Demonic Realm. Now that my task is complete, I have returned to the Heavenly Ruins!"
"I do not believe there was anything improper about what I did!"
"Now that you have followed me to the Heavenly Ruins, Senior, have you come to call me to account, or to ask something of me?"
With those words, He Pingsheng's confidence instantly swelled.
Right, I'm the one in the fucking right here.
What am I afraid of?
It's not as though a Sage can act at will anyway.
He Pingsheng thought he had seized the initiative.
Yet Shang Xihong did not pursue that topic at all. Instead, she changed the subject. "He Pingsheng... a peerless genius!"
"Not only did you climb to the Second Heaven here in the Heavenly Ruins with a cultivation of the Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortal First Layer!"
"Back in the Immortal Realm, you even managed to offend Dao Lord Azure Lotus, Dao Lord Zhou Yiren, Dao Lord Lingbo, and Dao Lord Zhu Ranyu all at once!"
"Isn't that right?"
Shang Xihong looked at him with a smile.
A tingle ran through He Pingsheng's entire body again. "How did you know?"
As for what had happened in the Heavenly Ruins, it was only natural that she would know if Sigui had told her.
But how had she learned about what happened in the Immortal Realm?
Shang Xihong lazily raised her right hand, brushing her thumbnail across her index, middle, and ring fingers in turn. Sounding rather listless, she said, "How else would I know?"
"Naturally, I went to the