"I didn't mean to offend you. My tongue ran ahead of me; don't read too much into it. Compared to those double pupils, I think your eyes from before were prettier."
Di Yi realized he should not have said such a thing to her face. After all, everyone had different tastes, and all deserved respect, so he tried to make amends.
But words once spoken were like water spilled. Even if he tried to make amends, they had still deeply wounded the Grey-Clothed Maiden's "heart."
"Since you managed to reach this place, I thought we shared some affinity, so I displayed the might of my double pupils for you to experience. But since you find them creepy, forget it. Consider it needless meddling on my part." The Grey-Clothed Maiden withdrew her double pupils, merging each pair into one and revealing her unfathomably deep eyes again.
Then her expression turned serious, and she said, "Though I'm resting here, I also count as a 'caretaker' for that person. You came here for some Precious Techniques, didn't you? The Heaven Mending Technique, for instance? Then let's follow the procedure."
"Procedure? What procedure?" Di Yi froze. Surely she was not going to seize on this pretext and use official business to make things difficult for him?
Wasn't that far too petty?
He had only said they were creepy. Was all this necessary?
"The necessary procedure, naturally." The Grey-Clothed Maiden was ethereal and unworldly. Even when angry, she was difficult to dislike. "The Heaven Mending Pavilion is a cultivation lineage, but its disciples come from all sorts of backgrounds. Naturally, certain important legacies cannot be passed on to people destined to leave the Heaven Mending Pavilion. You can understand that, can't you?"
"I can." Di Yi nodded. What the Grey-Clothed Maiden said was true. Most