Yuankong turned around and looked toward the voice.
On the bed sat a woman dressed in white, composed as her gaze swept over him.
The woman was beautiful, with distinctive features and a somewhat icy air. Yet for some reason, Yuankong kept feeling he had seen her somewhere before, as though they had met once, though he could not quite recall it.
Yuankong looked at the woman, only to discover that his eyes had lost all their powers when directed at her.
A faint smile appeared on the woman's face. Her gaze sharpened slightly, but she said nothing.
Yuankong waited a moment before slowly asking, "May I ask what you need of me, benefactor?"
The woman sounded a little surprised as she replied:
"You speak much more tactfully than before, and you've changed that blunt temperament too. Experience really does teach people faster."
Yuankong raised his gaze. This person was probably the unfortunate complication the abbot of the Right Sound Dharma Temple had mentioned. And she spoke as though she had known him since childhood.
He asked tactfully, "Do you know me, benefactor?"
"I don't know you, and you don't know me." The woman stood up. "But there's something you'll probably recognize quite clearly."
Yuankong grew a little wary. "What?"
He had barely finished speaking when his vision blurred, and the woman in white was already before him. His eyes had only just widened when a spell forced his mouth open. Before he could understand what was happening, something like a pill had already gone down into his stomach.
What was that?!
Poison?! Or something to control me?!
It all seemed to happen in an instant. The moment Yuankong found he could move again, he hurriedly mobilized his spiritual power, trying to force the pill out of his stomach.
But