Outside Cloud Dream Marsh, in a pavilion at a Shrine.
Chen Baiqing held a book, slowly turning its pages with a composed expression.
Lu Lingyi stood to one side, gazing at Chen Baiqing with a hint of admiration naturally showing on her face.
Unlike Cui Hao, who had left to handle his own affairs after staying only briefly, Lu Lingyi spent most of her time acting as Chen Baiqing's clerk.
She understood all the more deeply how Chen Baiqing could seize precisely that one thread of opportunity from a mass of fog.
Everything was orderly. Everything came so naturally.
Whenever Lu Lingyi found something a headache and difficult to handle, Chen Baiqing could always start from somewhere unexpected and break the situation wide open.
It was not merely the gap in cultivation. The difference in how they thought was even more astonishing.
Moreover, her knowledge was extraordinarily broad, as though there was nothing she did not know.
Although Cui Hao's deeds were rather astonishing too, compared with what Lu Lingyi had witnessed firsthand, there was inevitably still a difference in her mind.
Watching the sunlight gradually fade and the bright moon shine, Lu Lingyi thought for a moment before finally asking:
"Captain, can Fellow Disciple Cui really make it here to meet us today? Sending him to see Zheng Zhaoling... could he end up being detained?"
Chen Baiqing gently closed the book and looked toward Cloud Dream Marsh.
"Of course not. If she pretends she knows nothing, then some unknown force has set a fire in Cloud Dream Marsh, and it has little to do with her."
"But if she detains Cui Hao, she'll inevitably be involved too. Someone like her would never go looking for that sort of trouble."
"Besides, Cui Hao isn't someone she can keep there just