"What do you think of the old immortal's death?"
Hou Niao thought for a moment. "My cultivation is low, and my knowledge is limited. Any so-called opinion of mine would only be gossip from the people around me... if you insist on asking how I felt about it, then-utterly inexplicable?"
Li Chuping knew he would get nothing out of the question. There had been a Profound Connection Upper Cultivator present at the time, and hadn't he failed to see anything either? Even if someone had noticed something, who would dare speak? With Elder Guan's overturned cart as a warning before them, who would dare follow in his tracks?
The reason he had sent this junior cultivator over was to deliver a gift while also hoping to borrow Elder Guan's skill at reading people and have him read the young man's face. That had been the old immortal's original trade. But since Elder Guan had indeed passed the Treasure Gourd on to him as requested, presumably he had found nothing unusual?
He did harbor suspicions about Hou Niao. At his realm, his ability to judge people was unlike that of others. Given what this junior cultivator had shown in Anhe, he did not believe those wily old ox-noses of the Daoist Sect had failed to notice anything.
In temperament, he was an excellent seedling for cultivation. That might not show while his realm was low, but as his realm rose, temperament would play an increasingly obvious role. There was no reason to drive such a talent into Shan Kingdom. Could the great Anhe Daoist Sect really not accommodate one junior cultivator like him?
It had only been a conjecture, followed by a few casually arranged tests-nothing could have been simpler for someone in charge of the Commandant Prefecture. Yet the result