Chapter 1383 - 1379: Actions Speak Louder Than Words

At this moment, Xuan Chu no longer had a dark face; a sudden, very bad premonition rose in him. It felt like he hadn’t come here to uncover the truth at all, but more like a lamb walking into a tiger’s jaws.

He took a deep breath and waved at Yun Yi. "It’s fine. First find me a place to stay. Somewhere quiet."

Yun Yi didn’t know what Xuan Chu wanted to do, nor did he understand Xuan Chu’s shifting mood right now, but he did know one thing: anyone drawn by the first Hall Master himself was someone every Ming Hall member had to treat with respect.

"Yes, my lord. I’ll take you to Ming Hall’s turf first. Over there, aside from Ming Hall’s people, no one can set foot in it. It’s very quiet."

What Yun Yi didn’t say was that Ming Hall had pitifully few people, so of course it was quiet.

Among the City Lord Mansion’s people, those who knew Ming Hall existed were even rarer than phoenix feathers or unicorn horns. Outwardly, they were all hardcore Relationship types with powerful backgrounds; no one with functioning eyes would come looking to provoke them.

"This way, please~"

Xuan Chu followed Yun Yi toward the center of the City Lord Mansion. The deeper they went, the more the core buildings here resembled the layout of Qingfeng Temple.

Even several of the key Array nodes inside had evolved from Qingfeng Temple’s Grand Array.

At this point, there was no need to ask further. This City Lord Mansion really did have something to do with Yun Ran.

When the two of them stepped onto one of the flat plazas, Yun Yi stopped walking.

An unprecedented reverence showed on his face. "This is the only path leading to Ming Hall. Don’t be fooled by the lack of guards here—if someone enters without a guide, they’ll fall into a void!"

No matter how powerful a person was, once they fell into a place where they couldn’t hear, couldn’t see, and even their voice couldn’t pass through, they were destined to become a prisoner beneath someone else’s feet.

It was precisely because Ming Hall possessed all sorts of methods that could intimidate people without killing them, that they had managed to coexist peacefully with the City Lord Mansion all these years.

Yun Yi said all this with the intent of subtly persuading Xuan Chu not to casually test the methods hidden inside Ming Hall.

But the next second, his jaw just dropped, and his expression froze completely.

The Grand Array of Qingfeng Temple was indeed powerful, but it was never a killing Array; it was a trapped array.

That fit perfectly with Qingfeng Temple and the Xuan Sect Righteous Path’s style.

The Array before him had been modified somewhat, but its core was unchanged. So for Xuan Chu, walking through this territory safely was as easy as lifting a finger.

Without Yun Yi guiding him, Xuan Chu simply walked step by step toward the far side of the plaza, where a number of buildings stood—obviously the destination of his trip.

While Yun Yi’s jaw was still hanging in shock, Xuan Chu had already covered a third of the distance.

By the time Yun Yi snapped out of it and hurried after him, his attitude was even more respectful than before, with a faint hint of flattery.

If anyone saw him like this, they’d probably think they were seeing ghosts.

"My lord, I never would’ve thought you’d even recognize Ming Hall’s Arrays..."

That was Yun Yi’s awkward flattery. Xuan Chu could have ignored it, but these people probably really were Little Paperman-developed Outer Sect disciples of Qingfeng Temple.

He still had to give them some face. "My ancestor had some dealings with your Ming Hall’s master. So naturally I know the core of this Array."

If he had said this when he first met Yun Yi, who knows how much Yun Yi would have believed—only Yun Yi himself knew.

But saying it now, it was a case of facts speaking louder than any argument. His trust shot straight to one hundred percent.

As for suspecting Ming Hall’s people of leaking secrets? That possibility didn’t exist.