Although the list of fifty Nascent Soul cultivators had long since been decided, what did that have to do with Li Yan?
He would simply make his request to the Sect Master, and she could remove one person directly.
Since the sect had assigned him an additional task, what was wrong with him putting forward such a self-interested condition?
Li Yan had never let himself suffer a loss. This time, the sect had assigned him such a dangerous task, and he could not refuse it. Naturally, he intended to claw back whatever he could.
What Li Yan did not know was that after Bai Rou answered him without hesitation, she herself had been briefly stunned inside.
Bai Rou's tempering journey on the way back had merely been something convenient to do along the route. That was perfectly normal.
But according to Bai Rou's former temperament, once she returned to the sect, she definitely would not have wanted to go out again.
For the time afterward, unless she had to complete the sect's century-long assignment, Bai Rou would only stay peacefully in her cave dwelling and study her mechanism puppet arts.
Especially in a situation like this, where many cultivators would be traveling together—she had never considered such things, much less wanted to participate.
Yet for some reason, upon hearing that Zhao Min and the others would be going, she had not considered it at all and had answered Li Yan outright...
Thinking of this in the pavilion, Bai Rou felt a little flustered.
But she was no longer who she had once been. She could already conceal her expression quite well, so the others did not notice anything amiss.
"What exactly will we be doing in there?"
Zhao Min asked softly.
"There will be one month in total. When the