Chapter 359: Crimson Bridal Robe! Seven Female Corpses! Living Sacrifice!?
“Li Yanchu, do you truly believe the Dragon King has manifested here?” Fang Qinglan, with an iron sword hanging at her waist, her demeanor as cool and aloof as ever, asked this question while turning her beautiful eyes toward Li Yanchu.
Li Yanchu shook his head. “In times like these, the world grows ever more bewildering. Perhaps there truly is a Dragon King... or perhaps it’s just a flood dragon or giant serpent stirring up the waters.”
At that, he paused and glanced at Fang Qinglan, then smiled faintly. “Or perhaps it’s nothing more than someone playing tricks, feigning divine wonders and spouting superstition?”
Hearing this, Fang Qinglan frowned. “Why are you looking at me like that?”
Li Yanchu, looking perfectly serious, said, “Speaking of playing tricks and pretending to be gods, I think you’re the real master of the art. Why don’t you tell me how you went from a wandering heroine of the jianghu to a cultivator of the mystical Dao?”
In response, Fang Qinglan rolled her eyes. “My elder sister isn’t an ordinary person either. Why don’t you go ask her instead?”
Selling out her own sister just like that...
Li Yanchu chuckled. “Your sister wouldn’t alter her appearance to follow me into a Blissful Land, nor would she rashly barge into Fengdu.”
The innkeeper-lady’s aura had always been dazzlingly brilliant. He had noticed it the moment he learned to read qi. Later, her fate had shifted again, becoming ever more mysterious and extraordinary. Of course, he had long since perceived this, given how close the two of them were.
Fang Qinglan replied irritably, “I didn’t go to Mount Jinting with you. I just happened to be there. As for Fengdu, I...”
Her face had been set cold, but when she thought of how Li Yanchu had stormed through Fengdu, battling horrors and twisted legends, all just to rescue her, the words she’d meant to say in defiance caught in her throat. In the end, she only turned her head slightly aside.
“What is it?” Li Yanchu asked. He hadn’t meant to dig deep, and instead just wanted an idle conversation.