"Five days from now. Guanyin Lake. A ghost story for me alone."
Qin Manjiang spoke unhurriedly.
Yes...
This was the real reason he had returned to Fu City this time.
"There was another reason you didn't invite Chen Zhiyuan, wasn't there?" Yan Xiao suddenly said.
Qin Manjiang froze, then gave a helpless smile.
He hadn't expected the person who truly saw through him to be Yan Xiao.
But that was only natural. Before today, Yan Xiao had known Qin Manjiang best. The two had talked at great length by the river.
Still, Qin Manjiang hadn't expected Yan Xiao to be so perceptive.
"Yes." Qin Manjiang nodded and looked at everyone again.
"This wasn't a decision I made on the spur of the moment. You should know that the claim that you can exchange five hundred Spirit Pupil Points for a chance to leave the [Eye Realm] permanently came from Yang."
Qin Manjiang suddenly mentioned someone they all remembered.
Qin Manjiang had considered this even before obtaining five hundred Spirit Pupil Points. He had only acted after careful deliberation.
The appearance of Moon City's Ten Seats twenty years ago had once stirred some very troubling thoughts in Qin Manjiang.
He had indeed opened the ten coffins in the [Eye Realm Phone], leaving ten empty coffins behind. No... it should have been nine. Jiang Du had already left Shen Hai's backup in one of them.
But although ten empty coffins had been left behind at the time, had he really released ten people?
Qin Manjiang couldn't be sure.
He strongly suspected... that only eight people had been released.
Dog had said that Kong wasn't their real leader. Their true leader had awakened before the others and left long ago.
That person was very likely Yang...
For one thing, single-character code names were