The sight of the Gu King stepping out of the Buddha statue left Lin Ruoshui feeling thoroughly unwell.
These old things were far too cunning. How could he be a Servant of Three Surnames?
"O-old proprietor?" Her voice sounded somewhat unsteady.
The Gu King smiled at her, his expression as kindly as an old neighbor's. Nothing about him suggested he was the Miao Frontier's second-strongest expert, a Great Grandmaster who killed without blinking. "Water God, get up. The ground is cold." He extended a hand in a gesture of helping her up.
Lin Ruoshui did not move. She was still digesting this enormous shock.
She had come to sell out the Gu King, only to find him waiting at the very place she had come to sell him out?
What did that mean?
Had the Gu King been watching her all along?
Or had he always belonged to Spirit Mountain?
"Old proprietor, what are you doing here?" Lin Ruoshui tried hard to make her voice sound more normal.
"Waiting for you, of course," the Gu King said as though it were only natural. "Weren't you coming to find Spirit Mountain's people? I'm Spirit Mountain's chief representative in the Miao Frontier." Lin Ruoshui: "..."
She took a deep breath, then slowly let it out.
With his strength, the Gu King certainly qualified to be Spirit Mountain's chief representative in the Miao Frontier.
Now she needed to clear up another question:
"Old proprietor, do you belong to the White Lotus Sect or Spirit Mountain?"
The Gu King sat down on a meditation cushion and gestured for Lin Ruoshui to sit as well before speaking leisurely. "I'd like to ask you the same question, Water God. Do you belong to the Way-and-Society Sect or Spirit Mountain?"
As his words fell, the Gu King