Then Lin Ke changed his tune.
"Oh my, Fellow Daoist Mo, this really was a misunderstanding."
"I happened to receive an opportunity from the Purple Mansion Ranking just now and wasn't thinking clearly."
"I thought these three fellow Daoists were fleeing members of the Illusionless Gu Sect."
As he spoke, he raised his palm slightly.
The three Cloud Ink Sect cultivators whose foreheads had been driven into the ground all collapsed unconscious.
The corner of Mo Tianji's mouth twitched involuntarily, but hearing Lin Ke soften his tone, he took the offered way down.
"Uh... no harm done, Fellow Daoist Lin."
"They failed to regulate their own qi properly, which led to your misunderstanding, Brother Lin."
Seeing that his relationship with Mo Tianji had eased somewhat, Lin Ke began to reshape the relationship between them.
"Fellow Daoist Mo and I both received this Purple Mansion inheritance just now, so we both count as people on the Purple Mansion Ranking."
"We're probably also among the few Purple Mansion cultivators in this world."
"We share the same roots, the same lineage, and the same source, and we're both cultivators from the Cloud Frontier, not Shu Land or the Miao Frontier."
"That makes our ties closer still."
"Fellow Daoist Mo and I ought to address each other as brothers. We shouldn't let our affection grow distant."
Hearing this, Mo Tianji also began to feel proud.
That's right. Lin Ke and I are both successors to people on this ranking. Going by who came first, he should even call me senior brother.
If I allied with him, we would be the strongest in this Cloud Dragon Secret Realm.
At the very least, this trip into the secret realm would end with a plentiful harvest.
Nan Shang, Zong Ya, and the others were all puzzled by