The interview

The next day, An Weiyan washed up after getting out of bed, then began waiting for Liang Lijian to arrive.

At that moment, Liang Lijian was already climbing Frost Crimson Peak with several somewhat bewildered reporters.

The reporters looked around, sweat beading on their foreheads. Why had coming to present someone with a reward brought them into the mountains?

Could this person actually live on the mountain?

And right now, they were not the only ones bewildered. Liang Lijian was bewildered too.

What was this all about? He had originally assumed the Daoist temple An Weiyan mentioned was somewhere at the foot of the mountain. Never had he imagined it would be on the summit.

By sometime after nine, the group finally reached the top and spotted the Daoist temple off to one side in the distance.

They were drenched in sweat. Seeing them arrive, An Weiyan hurriedly brought out water and poured some for each of them.

"You live here? Are you a Daoist priest?"

After confirming An Weiyan's identity, Liang Lijian glanced around, then looked at him with a face full of surprise.

An Weiyan shook his head and reached over to refill his empty bowl. "I'm a lay practitioner. I live here and help look after the temple. It counts as cultivation too."

Cultivation...

For people like them, that sort of word was actually quite remote.

Occasionally, they saw news reports about people who had resigned from their positions to cultivate at Buddhist or Daoist temples.

But they did not seem to have encountered any in real life.

An Weiyan invited them to sit down. "Thanks for making the effort to climb all this way."

"It's no trouble. You helped me catch those people and made a major contribution. If making this climb every day would let me catch every last one of those criminals, I'd climb it every day."

Liang Lijian did not particularly mind it. He could just treat it as a sightseeing trip to unwind.

"Right, can you tell us now how you knew where those criminals were? When we questioned the seven criminals, they all denied revealing their whereabouts to anyone outside."

Liang Lijian perked up and asked, his gaze fixed intently on An Weiyan.

He had wanted to ask this question for a long time.

Seven people! An Weiyan had actually known where every single one of them was. If he knew how An Weiyan had done it, would he be able to catch some suspects easily in the future?

Hearing this, An Weiyan glanced at the reporters beside him, who were preparing to take notes, and sat a little straighter. "Once I tell you, could you help give me some publicity?"

The reporters exchanged glances at his words, then nodded lightly. "We came here to cover this in the first place, then publish it."

Hearing An Weiyan's words, Liang Lijian had a faint sense that something was amiss.

Why was this fellow asking that?

An Weiyan, however, perked up and answered, "Here's the thing. I actually worked out their locations through face reading."

They were still wondering how An Weiyan had done it. Little did they know that the moment he opened his mouth, he would leave them frozen on the spot.

Liang Lijian's expression stiffened. Had this fellow made him come all this way just to hear that?

"Young comrade, this is a formal interview. I hope you'll take it seriously."

Liang Lijian offered a reminder. How could he make things like that up?

An Weiyan had already known that the other man probably would not believe him.

Seeing his reaction, he said helplessly, "I'm not making it up."

As he spoke, he looked over the group, his gaze suddenly pausing briefly on one of the reporters.

An Weiyan's gaze grew somewhat odd. After looking the man up and down a few times, he appeared a little taken aback.

"What is it?"

The young man An Weiyan was staring at looked at him in confusion.

He looked himself up and down. There was nothing wrong with him.

The others also looked at An Weiyan, somewhat puzzled.

At that moment, in An Weiyan's eyes, the little wisp of Qi above the man's head was actually deep blue, with a hint of purple.

Come to think of it, this was the first time An Weiyan had seen blue.

This brought An Weiyan a small surge of delight, though outwardly he remained composed.

"We've never met before, have we?"

An Weiyan looked at the reporter and asked.

Feng Haixuan nodded at the question. He really did not know An Weiyan and had never met him before.

"What impression does he usually give you?"

An Weiyan pointed at Feng Haixuan. "Does he usually seem like an ordinary person without much money?"

Even now, as An Weiyan looked at his clothes, his outfit was entirely ordinary. Even the shoes on his feet were just ordinary sneakers.

He was not wearing a watch.

And among these people, Feng Haixuan was rather like an invisible man.

The others did not understand why An Weiyan was asking this either, but they all nodded.

That was indeed the impression Feng Haixuan usually gave them.

Seeing this, An Weiyan smiled. "Then you've got it wrong. His face marks him as someone of great wealth and status. I imagine your family must be anything but ordinary."

Liang Lijian's face reading showed only a slight trace of blue, but Feng Haixuan was different.

Hearing An Weiyan's words, the people accompanying Feng Haixuan shook their heads with a smile. "You must be joking. His family is just an ordinary family."

They felt that, having been Feng Haixuan's colleagues for several years, they naturally knew a little about him.

An Weiyan shrugged. "I've already seen it. Whether he admits it is his business."

"But you know whether what I said is true, so when you write the report later, could I trouble you to help give me some publicity? My temple doesn't usually get many incense offerings."

An Weiyan said this while looking straight at Feng Haixuan.

Feng Haixuan was completely stunned. Never had he imagined that An Weiyan would see through his family circumstances at a glance. Surely he himself knew perfectly well whether he had ever met An Weiyan before?

Then he thought of how An Weiyan had guided Liang Lijian into catching seven criminals, and his expression shifted slightly.

"Yes, you're right."

Feng Haixuan took a deep breath and nodded in admission.

Normally, he would not pay attention to something like this, but after seeing An Weiyan's miraculous ability, he felt that perhaps he could do him a favor.

Hearing this, the others' mouths fell open as they stared blankly at Feng Haixuan.

"So you want us to help publicize what you did, so your temple will get more incense offerings?"

Feng Haixuan looked around the Daoist temple where An Weiyan was staying and asked casually.

An Weiyan nodded. His temple really was short of incense offerings, so he had wanted the reporters to add a mention of it while they were here interviewing him.

The two chatted for a while, after which Liang Lijian handed An Weiyan his money.

It was 750,000 in total, the reward money for the seven criminals.

The group then went down the mountain and left.