"...We can wait for reinforcements, can't we?"
"That was my original plan. I kept out of sight these past two days," Lu Yunsheng said. Then he pressed his lips together. "But I discovered two important pieces of information."
Jade Feather had been entrenched here for half a year and had sensed, at most, that something was amiss, without finding any leads. This Heavenly Mountain disciple had only just arrived, yet in two days, without showing himself, he had found "important information." Li Piaoqing sighed inwardly and settled into an attentive posture.
"First, this Soul-Seizing Pearl in Bowang is even more important. Despite knowing Heavenly Mountain has its eye on it, it refuses to leave, cannot bear to leave, because there's a 'fruit' it has yet to swallow." The man looked at her. "I have no leads on who that fruit is yet, but the second thing is-they'll succeed very soon, and then they'll leave."
Leave.
That was a crucial word.
"So," Li Piaoqing said, her voice somewhat dry and hoarse. Her heart began to pound.
"I'm going to keep him here," Lu Yunsheng said.
"..."
Keep him here. "How?"
"Find him first."
"How will you make him show himself?"
"Threats and inducements."
"..."
"I know he's circling around the Seven Flood Dragons, and he knows I'm in the shadows," Lu Yunsheng said. "He's an opportunity I refuse to let slip, just as I'm a fishbone lodged in their throats. I desperately want to kill him, just as he wants to get rid of me."
"But neither of us dares show himself first-I know I'll die, while he thinks I'm at eighth growth," the man said slowly. "Once we fight, we'll commit everything we have. But at the outset, we must probe each other first. Neither will expose his whereabouts before