Chen Ping's mind was somewhat blank at that moment. Only after several seconds did he recover.
Ultimately, the tremendous harvest from his trip to Qiankun Asking Love Valley and his complete domination of Ning Rongrong on every front had gone to his head.
That inflated confidence had not shown in his outward behavior, but it had genuinely lowered Chen Ping's guard.
So much so that, although the aromatic silk beauty's tone and words had felt profoundly out of place, he still had not taken the matter to heart.
That feeling of holding everything in his hands, of everything going smoothly and even Ning Rongrong being easy to handle, had made Chen Ping forget that he had already turned the original timeline of the Douluo Continent upside down!
His thinking had been that, in the original story, Qiankun Asking Love Valley had Ning Rongrong stationed there by Tang San, whereas the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well held only a collection of immortal herbs waiting to be picked and a Tang Sect Poison Manual that Tang San could conceal, nothing more. It was merely a setting for one passing episode in the other party's ten-thousand-year plan.
But Chen Ping had failed to consider one thing: in the original story, Tang San had neither appeared at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well nor intervened in any way. Could that simply have been because, by then, he no longer needed to interfere much, and letting things develop naturally was enough?
Whether Tang San had appeared at a particular point in the original story could only be used in the forward direction: make more preparations wherever Tang San was certain to interfere. He could not reverse that logic, treating Tang San's absence in the original story as an inviolable law and letting down